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IPSO: Times OK to say BBC ignored Bill Gates climate U-turn despite Today coverage

IPSO: Times OK to say BBC ignored Bill Gates climate U-turn despite Today coverage

Published by Sam Flores

Bill Gates pictured in October 2023. Picture: Shutterstock/Alexandros Michailidis The Times was entitled to say in a leader column that the BBC produced “no coverage” of an intervention by Bill Gates on climate change despite it being discussed on Radio 4’s flagship Today programme, press regulator IPSO has found. During the week of 3 November, the story was discussed for several minutes on the Today programme, for around seven minutes on BBC Radio Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and for two minutes on a BBC World Service Newshour segment. The Times had used it as an example of what the BBC chooses not to cover in a critical leader column the following week. It said that “one of the BBC’s biggest problems is not just what it covers, but what it chooses not to cover. For example, there was no coverage of Bill Gates’s rethink on climate change last week – a significant intervention from one of the world’s richest men – presumably because it did not fit with a metropolitan world view.” The Energy and …

Creepy man at Solihull school gates spotted ‘staring inappropriately and asking to hug the children’

Creepy man at Solihull school gates spotted ‘staring inappropriately and asking to hug the children’

Published by Sam Flores

A creepy man at a Solihull school’s gates has sparked a warning from the headteacher after reports he has been staring and approaching pupils ‘asking for a hug’. Valley Primary School has two sites in Old Lode Lane (juniors) and Fallowfield Road (infants), near to the Birmingham border. It said it received an alert from police of a man waiting for children at the gates of the Fallowfield Road site at the end of the school day, ‘staring inappropriately and asking to hug the children’. Read more: BHX queues branded ‘disgrace’ after ‘unexpectedly high level of staff absence’ He is said to have been ‘targeting’ children walking home between the Fallowfield Road site and Old Lode Lane. The school’s headteacher, Susan Milewski, said the school had received a warning from police on Thursday (May 21) morning. The head urged parents to be ‘extra vigilant’ when collecting their children. She said the suspicious man was said to be Asian, around 50 years old and wearing a dark blue jacket and trousers. Get breaking news on BirminghamLive …

California attorney general election guide: Bonta vs. Gates

California attorney general election guide: Bonta vs. Gates

Published by Sam Flores

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> As in past statewide races in California, Trump’s outsize political presence will loom large. In the last year, Bonta’s office has filed more than 60 lawsuits against the Trump administration — challenging Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship, slash billions in federal funding for California and groups such as Planned Parenthood, halt food assistance for state residents, ban transgender kids’ access to gender-affirming healthcare and school sports, deploy National Guard and other military troops into California cities and unilaterally assess tariffs on global trading partners. Bonta has framed the fight as an existential one for the future of American democracy and rule of law, and cited it as his paramount responsibility when he announced his decision not to run for governor. “In this moment, my place is here, on the front lines, in the trenches, serving as a bulwark, creating a protection around our state and our people, our values and our progress in the face of these vicious, inhumane, unlawful, cruel attacks from the Trump administration,” Bonta said. Days later, Gates announced …

Gates Foundation reviewing Jeffrey Epstein ties, will slash staff: WSJ

Gates Foundation reviewing Jeffrey Epstein ties, will slash staff: WSJ

Published by Sam Flores

Bill Gates speaks during the Gates Foundation’s first global Goalkeepers event in the Nordics, which is being held in Stockholm, Sweden, Jan. 22, 2026. TT News Agency | Stefan Jerrevang | Via Reuters The Gates Foundation has launched an external review of the philanthropy’s past ties with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. To cut costs, the Gates Foundation will eliminate up to 500 jobs, or about 20% of its staff, by 2030, the Journal reported, citing an email to staff that the newspaper reviewed announcing both the job cuts and Epstein ties review. “This is a challenging time for our organization in many ways, but it also highlights the critical importance of taking the tough actions now,” Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman reportedly said in the memo. The Journal said the foundation, which has a 2026 budget of about $9 billion, plans to cap operating expenses at $1.25 billion. The Gates Foundation was founded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his ex-wife, Melinda Gates. Gates is scheduled to be …

Theaster Gates Gifts David Drake Vessel to Descendants

Theaster Gates Gifts David Drake Vessel to Descendants

Published by José Betancourt

“It started out as young scholarly curiosity,” the artist Theaster Gates said of his initial interest in the work of the 19th-century enslaved potter David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter. Gates was an undergraduate at Iowa State University in the early ’90s, making ceramics that he said referenced “white Americana craft” from the ’60s, like Peter Voulkos and Rudy Autio. While he admired that work, Gates recalled talking to his professor, Ingrid Lilligren, about the lineage in which he was working, asking, “Are the only named people we know all white guys?” He felt that “there was no precedent for the kind of craft I’m interested in making.” Related Articles But Lilligren pointed him to the school library which held a small catalog discussing Dave the Potter, whose work was just beginning to be recognized more widely. “Dave was a kind of archetype of a Black poet-potter, as a way of developing an apparatus for believing more in myself. I believed more in Dave first: look at him, then look at me,” he …

‘Beyond the Gates’ Renewed Through Season 4 on CBS

‘Beyond the Gates’ Renewed Through Season 4 on CBS

Published by Daniella Wilson

CBS is extending its time Beyond the Gates by a significant amount. Along with unveiling its primetime schedule for 2026-27 on Wednesday, the network announced that it has renewed its daytime series Beyond the Gates for two more seasons. The pickup will take the soap opera through its fourth season in 2027-28. Beyond the Gates has performed solidly for CBS since it premiered in February 2025, improving ratings for its afternoon time period over The Talk. It has also helped the network extend its decades-long winning streak in daytime. CBS’ daytime lineup (which also includes The Price Is Right, Let’s Make a Deal, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful) is set to finish the 2025-26 season in first place on broadcast TV for the 40th straight season. Beyond the Gates is the first daytime drama to center Black characters since NBC’s Generations, which ran from 1989-91. It was also the first new daytime soap, period, to premiere since 1999’s Passions, also on NBC. The show’s cast includes Tamara Tunie, Clifton …

U.S.-Iran ceasefire; Teen birth rates; Bill Gates : NPR

U.S.-Iran ceasefire; Teen birth rates; Bill Gates : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories The two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is off to a shaky start. Within the first 24 hours of the deal, an oil refinery in Iran was struck and five Gulf Arab states reported attacks from Iranian drones and missiles. Israeli airstrikes killed more than 250 people across Lebanon, according to authorities there. Late yesterday, President Trump said that the U.S. forces that have been deployed to the Middle East will “remain in place” until an agreement is reached with Iran and its implementation takes hold. High-level talks are slated to take place on Saturday between the U.S. and Iran in Islamabad, with the mediation of the Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif. First responders and residents gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s Tallet al-Khayyat neighbourhood, on April 8, 2026. Fadel Itani/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle …

Bill Gates will testify about Epstein; Pam Bondi will not for now : NPR

Bill Gates will testify about Epstein; Pam Bondi will not for now : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Bill Gates speaks during an event in New York City in September 2024. He is scheduled to testify before a House committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Bill Gates is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee in June, adding to the list of prominent figures called before the committee in its investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Gates, who has denied having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, will sit for a closed-door transcribed interview on June 10, according to a source familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the details publicly. Gates’ scheduled appearance was first reported by MSNOW. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was subpoenaed by the committee in March to discuss her role in overseeing the release of the Epstein files, but will not appear for her scheduled deposition on April 14. In a letter to Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, the committee chair, Assistant Attorney General Patrick Davis said …

Bill Gates to be interviewed by House Oversight on June 10

Bill Gates to be interviewed by House Oversight on June 10

Published by Sam Flores

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates attends a private dinner for technology and business leaders hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 4, 2025. Brian Snyder | Reuters Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will sit for an interview about Jeffrey Epstein by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on June 10, according to a person familiar with the situation, who spoke anonymously because the appearance has not been announced. Gates is one of several people who have agreed to be interviewed by the oversight panel about their dealings with Epstein, the notorious sex offender who killed himself in a New York jail in August 2019. In February, Gates apologized to staff at the Gates Foundation for his association with Epstein and admitted having affairs with two Russian women, which Epstein learned of, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. Gates at that same event said, “I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit,” the newspaper reported. His interview will come a day after the committee’s …

Warren Buffett says he hasn’t talked to Bill Gates

Warren Buffett says he hasn’t talked to Bill Gates

Published by Sam Flores

Warren Buffett said Tuesday that he has not spoken to Microsoft founder Bill Gates “since the whole thing” with the Jeffrey Epstein files “was unveiled.” “I haven’t talked to him at all since the whole thing was unveiled,” Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box.” “I don’t want to be in a position where I know things … to be called as a witness,” said the Berkshire Hathaway chairman, who since 2006 has donated more than $43 billion to the Gates Foundation, the philanthropic organization founded by Gates and his ex-wife, Melinda Gates. Gates became friends with Epstein in 2011, three years after Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida state court to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. Emails and photos detailing Gates and Epstein’s friendships have been revealed in documents released by the Department of Justice and Congress since late 2025. Gates, in February, apologized to staff at the Gates Foundation for his association with Epstein and admitted having affairs with two Russian women, which Epstein learned of, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. …