Lawmakers press Meta, Apple, Google, and others on massive Trump donations Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty ImagesSens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) are putting pressure on big tech firms to explain their motives for donating to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. In letters to Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Uber, the lawmakers express concerns about the co…

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Why Crypto Donations Are Surging in 2024 After a decade of tax incentives and transparency attracting philanthropists to crypto, Web3 innovation is adding fuel to the fire.

Should a Gusher of Donations Calm Democrats? President Biden’s campaign said it had raised $127 million last month, but big donors are still anxious after his debate performance.

Eric Adams’s Turkey Ties: Travel, Donations and a Meeting With Erdogan Eric Adams, who says he has visited Turkey at least six times, has longstanding ties to the Turkish community. The F.B.I. is now investigating those connections.

LPT: Even small donations help local food pantries If you have a local neighborhood food pantry near you, buy two items on your regular grocery list instead of just one and drop the second one off at the pantry. Even small donations are helpful to local pantries because pantries are being utilized more than normal right now and are running low. One can of soup is a meal for someone that is hung…

Hamas Has Raised Millions in Crypto Donations – WSJ

For Native Hawaiian advocates, tech billionaires’ donations don’t go far enough In an aerial view, burned cars and homes are seen in a surrounding that was destroyed by a wildfire on August 18th, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii.  | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesTech giants have accumulated vast properties across Hawaii while Native Hawaiian residents fight to keep their land. It’s a fight that’s heating up in the aftermat…

How Trump Uses Supporters’ Donations to Pay His Legal Bills Facing a wide array of criminal charges, the former president is using money from small donors to defend himself legally — a practice that raises ethical questions.

Ex-Georgia man sought in alleged misuse of millions of Christian ministry donations DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — Prosecutors said Shenk got more than $30 million from faith-based charities and individual donors, primarily from religious communities in Ohio and North Carolina, promising to use the money to produce and distribute Bibles and other Christian literature in China. The post Ex-Georgia man sought in alleged misuse of millions o…

DeSantis, With a Subtle Maneuver, Hides His Small-Dollar Donations The campaign of the Florida governor, who is known to be reliant on rich donors, worked with a Republican fund-raising powerhouse to prevent the disclosure of information on small contributors.

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Biden’s Campaign Fund-Raising Filing Shows Sluggish Small Donations Wealthy Democrats have thrown their money behind the president’s re-election bid, but for many reasons, the party’s small donors have yet to step up their contributions.