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A decades-long friendship. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Gates and Buffett’s friendship can be traced back to a single day: July 5, 1991.Gates’ mother, Mary, invited the late Meg Greenfield, a Washington Post editor, to her home. Greenfield planned to bring her friend Buffett, Business Insider previously reported. Gates didn’t want to take the day off work. A young BIll Gates in the early years of Microsoft. Doug Wilson/CORBIS Mary Gates pressed her son to join them, but he didn’t want to take the day off work, Business Insider reported.”What were he and I supposed to talk about, P/E ratios?” Gates later wrote…

Sudan’s de facto ruler, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has said his government would not join peace talks in Switzerland, saying the military would “fight for 100 years” if necessary to defeat the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Burhan, who leads the governing Transitional Sovereignty Council, told reporters in Port Sudan on Saturday that the talks aim to “whitewash” the RSF and countries that support the paramilitaries. “We will not put down our weapons as the rebellion continues. We will not co-exist with the rebels and we will not forgive them,” he said. The United States opened talks in Switzerland on…

Before she married into one of America’s most famous families, Cheryl Hines endured a difficult divorce. Could be headed that way again? Cheryl, of course, is a longtime veteran of Hollywood who’s best known for her work on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Since 2014, she has been the wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial politician who is currently running for president as an independent candidate. That soon may change, as could their marital status, as RFK Jr. himself has suggested that a separation might be in the best interest of Cheryl’s public image. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.…

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose inside the hatch connecting Boeing’s Starliner to the International Space Station onNASABoeing will return its Starliner capsule from the International Space Station without the NASA astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June, the agency announced on Saturday.With Starliner coming back to Earth empty, NASA will now have astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return via SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which is expected to launch its ninth regular mission to the ISS for the agency on Sept. 24. Ultimately, Wilmore and Williams will stay at the ISS for about six more…

ReutersItalian authorities had been leading a search operation since Monday for those on board the yachtItalian authorities investigating the deaths of seven people in the sinking of a luxury yacht in Sicily say they are looking into potential crimes of “shipwreck and manslaughter”.They stressed, however, that the investigation was in its initial stages and they were not currently looking at anyone specifically.UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among those who died when the Bayesian went down off the coast of Porticello during a storm in the early hours of Monday morning.It was previously believed the…

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Speaking at a press conference on Saturday morning, Bentivoglio Fiandra from the local fire rescue service said: “The yacht tended to the right and obviously the bodies tried to go to the other side and take refuge in their cabins.””We found five bodies in a cabin on the left and another one in the third cabin on the left. They were in the higher part of the shipwreck,” he added, per The Telegraph.Prosecutors say they have opened a manslaughter investigation following the sinking.Ambrogio Cartosio, the head of the public prosecutor’s office of Termini Imerese, said he was investigating a “crime…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says perpetrators of attack ‘should be identified and given exemplary punishment’.A bomb blast near a police office in southwestern Pakistan has killed at least two children and injured 16 people, authorities have said. Seven policemen were among those wounded when the remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle detonated in Pishin district on Saturday, a local law enforcement official told the Reuters news agency. “Explosives were planted in a motorcycle, which was parked in the area,” police officer Mujeeb-Ur-Rehman said, adding that the two children were passing through the area when the blast occurred. Provincial government spokesman…

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CelebrityAccess) — SoundExchange presented legendary singer-songwriter, and recording artist Billy Joel with the SoundExchange Hall of Fame Award, recognizing his achievements as one of the most streamed artists in the organization’s history. Joel has been a SoundExchange member since SoundExchange’s inception in 2003 with SoundExchange administering his neighboring rights royalties through agreements with more than 65 agreements with counterpart organizations, covering 88% of the global neighboring rights market. “Billy Joel is an American musical icon, a performer with an unrivaled catalog of hits and beloved deep cuts. He has not only…

Aging in place is seen as a leading “social barrier“ to healthy aging in America in 2024, according to a new survey conducted by Alignment Health. The survey was first reported by McKnights Senior Living. “As more seniors choose to live independently and longer in their own homes, aging in place brings its own set of challenges: nearly seven out of 10 consider aging in place a top social barrier to their health and well-being,” the organization said of its survey findings. About one in five survey respondents ranked aging in place as their leading factor for stress or anxiety…