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Byline: Nicholas Kulish, Rebecca R. Ruiz and Karen Weise Less than two years after announcing the marriage and their intent to give money away together, Ms. Scott has parted ways [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish After going dark during Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, the Clinton Global Initiative is back. After a six-year hiatus, the Clinton Global Initiative returned to New York [...]

Byline: Lora Kelley and Nicholas Kulish The director of the nation's largest network of food banks is seeing support dwindle as need rises: 'You're in the middle of a battle, [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish, Katie Glueck and Michael C. Bender After more mass shootings, one side is gaining donors and political will; the other is galvanized by gun rights. Will anything [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish and Rebecca R. Ruiz The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott once recounted, in a television interview, a Chinese folk tale sometimes known as 'The Lost Horse.' The story [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish The richest people on earth typically devote a share of their vast resources to charity. That is the bargain and the expectation, anyway. Jeff Bezos, until very [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish A little-known organization called the Bridgespan Group is guiding the philanthropic choices of many leading donors, including MacKenzie Scott. MacKenzie Scott stepped out of the long shadow [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish, Ephrat Livni and Emma Goldberg They are tech titans, entertainment moguls and heirs to great fortunes. Their ranks grew during the pandemic, changing the political conversation around [...]

Byline: Anupreeta Das, Emily Flitter and Nicholas Kulish At least four employees at the firm, Cascade Investment, complained to Mr. Gates about Michael Larson, his longtime money manager. For 27 [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish, David Gelles, Anupreeta Das and Kate Kelly Their marital estate is enormous and complex, containing assets as varied as stocks and farmland. Divvying it up could have [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish The end of one marriage has implications for the 1,600 staff members who direct $5 billion in annual grants to 135 countries. The Bill and Melinda Gates [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish Danielle Churchill needed help. She was raising five children in Wollongong, on the Australian coast south of Sydney, and had to cover thousands of dollars in special [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish Billionaires aren't usually cast as saviors of democracy. But one way they are winning plaudits for civic-minded endeavors is by funding the Fourth Estate. Billionaires have had [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish Through a streamlined operation, Ms. Scott has given away $6 billion this year, much of it to small charities and nonprofits. On a Monday evening in November, [...]

Byline: Megan Twohey and Nicholas Kulish The head of one of the world's largest vaccine manufacturers had a problem. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, needed [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish Even as the economic crisis creates new demand for their services, organizations with millions of workers are resorting to layoffs as revenues dry up. In the grip [...]

Byline: James B. Stewart and Nicholas Kulish The Ford Foundation and four others plan to substantially increase their spending, a splurge financed in part by issuing debt. The week after [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish Millions are flooding a charitable system that was never intended to handle a nationwide crisis. In Omaha, a food pantry that typically serves as few as 100 [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish, Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg As the coronavirus spreads, the collapse of the project helps explain America's acute shortage. Thirteen years ago, a group of U.S. public [...]

Byline: Sarah Kliff, Adam Satariano, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Nicholas Kulish The United States and other countries face a critical shortage of the lifesaving machines - and no easy way to [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish On social media, outpourings of generosity during the coronavirus pandemic are part of a shift toward direct giving. Shortly before midnight on Thursday, the author Shea Serrano [...]

Byline: Ben Casselman, Patricia Cohen, Stacy Cowley, Conor Dougherty, Nicholas Kulish, David McCabe and Karen Weise A week ago, Mark Canlis's restaurant in Seattle was offering a $135 tasting menu [...]

Byline: Alexander Burns and Nicholas Kulish In the fall of 2018, Emily's List had a dilemma. With congressional elections approaching and the Supreme Court confirmation battle over Judge Brett M. [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish and Mike McIntire She was an heiress without a cause - an indifferent student, an unhappy young bride, a miscast socialite. Her most enduring passion was for [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH BIDNIJA, Malta -- On Oct. 16, at 1:41 a.m., a cellphone SIM card was activated in this rural Maltese village. It was the moment, investigators say, when [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH and MICHAEL FORSYTHE LOUVECIENNES, France -- When the Chateau Louis XIV sold for over $300 million two years ago, Fortune magazine called it 'the world's most expensive [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK King Salman's close relatives not only rule Saudi Arabia. They are also in business with it. A major Saudi investment firm founded by [...]

Byline: MANNY FERNANDEZ, NICHOLAS KULISH and SUSAN ANASAGASTI SAN ANTONIO -- In one truck, the migrants crouched in the dark in a three-foot crevice between the trailer's ceiling and the [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH I knocked and knocked on the door to the artist's studio, beside the plastic logo of a painter's palette. It had been so hard to find the [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH, CAITLIN DICKERSON and RON NIXON In Virginia, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waited outside a church shelter where undocumented immigrants had gone to stay warm. In Texas [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH and NATHANIEL POPPER Trapped in an airport terminal in Jordan by President Trump's travel ban, Hanan Isweiri fretted that as a Libyan citizen she would not be [...]

Byline: RON NIXON and NICHOLAS KULISH WASHINGTON -- The secretary of homeland security, John F. Kelly, acknowledged to lawmakers on Tuesday that President Trump's travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH and MARK MAZZETTI TANGIER, Morocco -- Behind a tall perimeter wall, studded with surveillance cameras and guarded by Moroccan soldiers, a sprawling new palace for King Salman [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH One more run. We had to take one more run from the Zehnerkar peak down the steep, snowy trails, beyond the black strings of chairlifts and all [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH THE TUNNELSEscapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to KillBy Greg MitchellIllustrated. 382 pp. Crown. $28. Television viewers expecting the [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH When imagining a journey around planet Earth, I never pictured the part where I crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in a Toyota Camry with a pink Lyft mustache [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH AL KHARJ, Saudi Arabia -- This is what it takes to run a mega-dairy in the scorching desert here: 180,000 Holstein cows, precisely cooled cowsheds, water pumped [...]

Byline: BEN HUBBARD and NICHOLAS KULISH RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The images of the past year have been deeply unsettling for the people of Saudi Arabia, long accustomed to oil-fueled [...]

Byline: BEN HUBBARD and NICHOLAS KULISH RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The images of the past year have been deeply unsettling for the people of Saudi Arabia, long accustomed to oil-fueled [...]

Byline: MATTHEW ROSENBERG, HELENE COOPER and NICHOLAS KULISH WASHINGTON -- American airstrikes have killed 25,000 Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria and incinerated millions of dollars plundered by the [...]

Byline: HELENE COOPER, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and NICHOLAS KULISH WASHINGTON -- American airstrikes have killed 25,000 Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria. Iraqi and Kurdish forces have taken back 40 [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH, CHRISTOPHER DREW and SEAN D. NAYLOR Eric Greitens's bid for governor of Missouri hinges on his experience as a Navy SEALs member, which he has chronicled in [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH and CHRISTOPHER DREW It was his last night of what his men were already calling a cursed deployment in Afghanistan. Cmdr. Job W. Price had signed off [...]

Byline: STEVEN LEE MYERS and NICHOLAS KULISH SHUMEN, Bulgaria -- Acting on a tip, the police raided four homes in eastern Bulgaria, looking for contraband that regularly traverses this country [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH, CHRISTOPHER DREW and MATTHEW ROSENBERG The three Navy SEALs stomped on the bound Afghan detainees and dropped heavy stones on their chests, the witnesses recalled. They stood [...]

Byline: MATTHEW ROSENBERG, NICHOLAS KULISH and STEVEN LEE MYERS Three times a month, Mohammad al-Kirayfawai hands $300 to fighters from the Islamic State for the privilege of driving his refrigerated [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH Léon Blum. Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist. By Pierre Birnbaum. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. 218 pages. Yale University Press. $25. Léon Blum, age 26, imagined Goethe writing a [...]

Byline: MARK MAZZETTI, NICHOLAS KULISH, CHRISTOPHER DREW, SERGE F. KOVALESKI, SEAN D. NAYLOR and JOHN ISMAY They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH and NICOLA CLARK The Federal Aviation Administration raised questions in 2010 about whether it should grant a pilot's license in the United States to Andreas Lubitz, who [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS KULISH and NICOLA CLARK DÈ£SSELDORF, Germany -- When Andreas Lubitz sent an email in 2009 seeking reinstatement to Lufthansa's flight-training program after a monthslong absence, he appended what [...]