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CNN — It’s hard to think of anyone on Wall Street who contains quite the same contradictions as Warren Buffett. He’s a white-haired, ice-cream-eating, Cherry-Coke drinking avuncular figure — who has also cut some of the world’s sharpest deals and amassed a fortune bigger than some nations’ entire annual economy. Buffett, 94, said Saturday at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting that he would step down as CEO at the end of the year, handing the reins to his chosen successor, Greg Abel. Abel, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Energy, has been a well-liked and respected lieutenant of Buffett’s…
CNN — Tammy Faye Bakker. Thierry Mugler. Leigh Bowery. These three figures come from extremely different worlds — televangelism, couture fashion and drag performance art, respectively — and yet all of them inform the singularly bizarre and flamboyant style on “The Righteous Gemstones,” a raucous satire of Southern megachurch bigwigs that ends its four-season run on Sunday. (The show is a property of HBO, which shares parent company Warner Bros. Discovery with CNN.) The titular Gemstones, three wealthy adult siblings who’ve inherited their parents’ booming megachurch and TV operation in South Carolina, are “always on stage,” said costume designer Christina…
Jerusalem CNN — A failed interception of a missile fired from Yemen forced Israel to briefly shut down its main international airport on Sunday, exposing the country’s vulnerabilities and the Houthi rebels’ continued ability to strike distant targets despite a sustained US military campaign. Flights were halted at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv for about 30 minutes on Sunday morning after a missile landed in the airport’s vicinity, following what the Israeli military said were “several attempts” at interception. “The results of the interception are under review,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. The military fired its long-range Arrow…
Washington CNN — Since President Donald Trump took office, the Internal Revenue Service has churned through four acting leaders and spiraled into turmoil, while the president’s pick for full-time commissioner waits for a Senate confirmation hearing. Trump announced in early December that he was nominating Republican former Rep. Billy Long to be the next IRS commissioner. The president and his supporters believe Long, who previously sponsored bills to abolish the IRS, can make good use of his strong relationships on Capitol Hill as a Trump ally. Senate Democrats, meanwhile, have signaled their opposition by raising questions about Long’s past work…
CNN — When a car accident nearly killed Davina Rush’s son three years ago, forcing her to leave her job and become his full-time caregiver, she stopped paying her $49,000 in student loan debt. Now, the 42-year-old single mother from Florida is one of the millions of borrowers in default who risk having their benefits and wages garnished. “I am very worried,” she said when asked about what that would mean for her and her 23-year-old son, who is contending with a severe brain injury. “If they took anything out of my pay, it would literally be taking food out…
Editor’s Note: “My Happy Place,” a CNN Original Series following celebrities on deeply personal journeys, airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT. CNN also tapped its anchors and correspondents to share their happy places. Visiting New York’s Strand bookstore makes CNN’s Erin Burnett happy. New York City (CNN) — Books — real books, the tangible, flip-the-pages kind — have an enduring appeal. As do bookstores — real bookstores, the brick-and-mortar, browse-and-discover kind. There is an atmosphere and culture to them, expert curation and literary serendipity. Bookstores are vital social capital too — third spaces where strangers mix. But there is also…
Bucharest Reuters — Romanians voted on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election that could propel hard-right eurosceptic George Simion to power in a ballot that will test the rise of Donald Trump-style nationalism in the European Union. Simion, 38, opposes military aid to neighboring Ukraine, is critical of the EU leadership and says he is aligned with the US president’s Make America Great Again movement. Five months after a first attempt to hold the election was canceled after the first round because of alleged Russian interference in favor of far-right frontrunner Calin Georgescu, since banned from standing…
CNN — Sovereignty won the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs Racetrack in Louisville, Kentucky. The 2025 edition of the longest continuously held major sporting event in the United States featured all of the pomp and pageantry that has become the hallmark of “The Run for the Roses.” After a slate of preliminary races, American gymnast Simone Biles, an 11-time Olympic medalist, gave the “riders up” call for the jockeys to mount their rides in the paddock. Moments later, the bugler sounded the call to the post and the horses began to enter the famed…
CNN — A Guatemalan woman who had just given birth at an Arizona hospital was swiftly taken into US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody before being released on Saturday as she faces deportation proceedings. The woman, who attorneys identified only by her first name, Erika, had been wandering in the Arizona desert alone for two days while eight months pregnant before being detained by US Customs and Border Protection agents on Monday, her attorney Luis Campos told CNN. She had crossed into the United States from Mexico between ports of entry near Tres Bellotas Ranch, about 74 miles southwest of…
CNN — A four-year-old girl and a man have been killed after a driver crashed an SUV into the entrance of Manila International Airport on Sunday, the Philippine Red Cross said. The driver crashed the car through the outer railing and onto a walkway where people were standing outside the departure area at Ninoy Aquino International Airport’s Terminal 1 just before 9 a.m., the Philippine Red Cross said in a statement. “The incident tragically resulted in the casualties of two individuals – a male adult and a 4-year-old girl,” it said. The driver is in police custody and individuals are…