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• Sanford is best known for the Dakotas-based hospital system that bears his name. He has given Sanford Health nearly $1 billion since 2007, and it has grown into the nation's largest nonprofit rural health care provider. Officials early this year announced his latest gift -- $125 million for a program to incorporate genetics into primary care.
• The top 50 contributors in the country made donations last year totaling $7.7 billion, plus pledges of $2.9 billion. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave the most, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock valued at more than $970 million to a Silicon Valley nonprofit.
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10 Things to Know: This Week's Takeaways
The Associated Press
• Looking back at the stories to remember from the past week:
• . US SWEEPS THE PODIUM IN SLOPESTYLE SKIING, GETS SHUT OUT IN MEN'S HALFPIPE
• For only the third time in Winter Games history, the United States swept the podium Thursday, capturing the top three spots in slopestyle skiing's Olympic debut. Joss Christensen, a 22-year-old making his first appearance on the Olympic stage, won the gold, while Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper captured the silver and bronze. The triumph follows a shocker earlier in the week when two-time gold medalist Shaun White got knocked off the podium, the first time the Americans were shut out of the halfpipe since the sport was introduced to the Olympics in 1998.
• . FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS BANKS MAY DO BUSINESS WITH LEGAL MARIJUANA SELLERS
• The Obama administration gave banks a road map on Friday for doing business with legal marijuana sellers without getting into trouble with the law, a major step by the federal government toward enabling a legalized marijuana industry to operate in states that approve it. The guidance issued by the Justice Department and Treasury Department was intended to make banks feel more comfortable working with legal marijuana businesses, while preserving the government's enforcement power.
• . IN A FIRST FOR THE SOUTH, VIRGINIA GAY MARRIAGE BAN OVERTURNED
• In a first for the South, Virginia's same-sex marriage ban was overturned, with a federal judge ruling Thursday that the voter-approved amendment is unconstitutional and declaring the move "another moment in history when We the People becomes more inclusive." U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen issued a stay of her (Continued on page 37)
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