Jeff Bezos’ NEO Hunter mission could protect Earth from deadly asteroids: Inside the high-speed mission set to stop disaster |

Jeff Bezos’ company, Blue Origin, is working with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology on a mission to study asteroid deflection strategies. The initiative, called the Near Earth Objects (NEO) Hunter mission, is designed to incorporate asteroid detection and deflection capabilities into Blue Origin’s ‘Blue Ring’ spacecraft platform. Blue Ring is […]

Top 10 richest people in the world 2026: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other tech titans leading global wealth | World News

Global wealth has reached a new milestone. The Hurun Global Rich List 2026 reports that the number of billionaires worldwide has crossed 4,000 for the first time. A total of 4,020 individuals now hold billionaire status, which means 578 more people joined the ranks in just one year. It sounds almost unreal. Experts say roughly […]

MacKenzie Scott donates $26 billion in seven years, surpassing Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in lifetime giving

MacKenzie Scott donated $26 billion over the past seven years, including a record $7.2 billion in 2025, a pace of giving that makes her the third-largest philanthropist of all time by total lifetime donations, according to Forbes. Scott is a novelist and the former spouse of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. She has distributed the funds […]

‘This falls squarely on Jeff Bezos’ shoulders’: Internet reacts to GoFundMe for laid-off Washington Post journalists

The Washington Post Guild created a GoFundMe for more than 300 journalists who were laid off at the mainstay newspaper on Wednesday morning, and said they were overwhelmed by the influx of donations from near and far.The fundraiser, overseen by economics reporter Rachel Siegel and fellow members of the Washington Post Guild, has drawn massive […]

‘Painful but necessary’: Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post announces sweeping layoffs

The Washington Post on Wednesday announced sweeping layoffs that will significantly shrink its newsroom. The Post eliminated its sports section, large parts of its foreign coverage and its storied books division, in what current and former staff described as one of the darkest moments in the paper’s history.The cuts, which affect nearly every department, come […]

Peak philanthropy: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott donates $7 billion in a single year | World News

MacKenzie Scott has revealed that she donated nearly $7.2 billion in 2025, according to an updated post on her Yield Giving platform. The disclosure brings her total lifetime contributions to more than $26 billion. Her latest update includes 225 new grants across education, climate work and community support, continuing her pattern of providing large, unrestricted […]

Congressman introduces ‘Robinhood’ Act targeting billionaires; accuses Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos of evading taxes, hoarding wealth

Congressman Dan Goldman introduced an initiative targeting the ultra-wealthy, calling it the ‘Robinhood’ Act, openly targeting Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon co-founder Jeff Bezos. Tax-free billionaires? Goldman unveiled the Redistribution of Billions by Instituting New High-Income Obligations on Overlooked Debt (ROBINHOOD) Act, a new federal tax aimed at the ultra-wealthy. The legislation seeks to […]

Divorce to donations: Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife MacKenzie Scott donates $700 million to historically black colleges in another philanthropic move | World News

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has once again reshaped the landscape of American higher education, announcing more than $700 million in donations to a group of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), one of the largest collective gifts in their history. The move is part of her ongoing effort to redistribute the vast wealth she acquired […]

‘Ring the alarm bells’: Oregon senator Jeff Merkley delivers record 23-hour speech; slams Trump as ‘authoritarian’

Oregon democrat Senator Jeff Merkley delivered a nearly 23-hour marathon speech on the Senate floor from Tuesday into late Wednesday, one of the longest recorded in recent years. He used the speech to criticise US President Donald Trump‘s policies, calling him an authoritarian for using the military in Merkley’s hometown of Portland and prosecuting political […]

Top 10 richest Americans in 2025: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and other billionaires shaping the US wealth | World News

Forbes’ 2025 list of the wealthiest Americans confirms that the richest are growing even richer. Valued collectively at $6.6 trillion, the nation’s top 400 billionaires saw their combined net worth increase by over $1 trillion compared to last year. Leading the pack for the fourth consecutive year is Elon Musk, the South African-born entrepreneur and […]