The National Trust could lose £200m of income this year because of the coronavirus outbreak, its director general has warned. In a column for the Telegraph newspaper over the weekend, Hilary McGrady said the charity had to make some “incredibly difficult decisions to pause important conservation programmes to clean rivers, prevent upland flooding and improve
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Warren Buffett Gerard Miller | CNBC (Follow live updates of Berkshire’s annual meeting here.) Warren Buffett said Saturday that Berkshire Hathaway is still sitting on its massive cash hoard because the conglomerate hasn’t found a company to buy at an attractive price.  “We have not done anything, because we don’t see anything that attractive to
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On Sunday, Joel Hodgson, the creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, teamed up with friends old and new for a videoconferencing bad-movie event. You can replay the “MST3K LIVE Social Distancing Riff-Along Special” below. The Riff-Along was a Russian nesting doll of shows-within-shows. At its innermost core was the 1969 movie Moon Zero Two. This science
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Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., speaks during the virtual Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting seen on a laptop computer in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., on Saturday, May 2, 2020. Bloomberg A 95% plunge in passengers. Billions in losses. A rush for new debt. A recovery that executives expect to take
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Every fan of the wizarding world fantasized about living in the Harry Potter universe while growing up. Many were even so desperate to live in the magical world that a bit of a temper tantrum may have been thrown when no owl arrived with a Hogwarts letter on that vital 11th birthday. Who wouldn’t want to live in a universe with Quidditch, flying cars,
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Strong charitable foundations will periodically consider their own futures and the rate at which they are spending their funds, a new report recommends.  Strategy and Governance: The Pillars of Strong Foundation Practice is the third publication from the Association of Charitable Foundations’ Stronger Foundations initiative, which was set up in 2017 to help foundations identify
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Warren Buffett Gerry Miller | CNBC Warren Buffett said Saturday he is optimistic that the U.S. economy will re-emerge even after being dealt a body blow by the coronavirus pandemic.  “Nothing can basically stop America,” said Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, from the conglomerate’s first virtual shareholder’s meeting from Omaha, Nebraska. “The American
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Paramount has given a date for a new Transformers movie of June 24, 2022. The studio is in development on two different projects: one by Murder Mystery scribe James Vanderbilt and the other by John Wick Chapter 3 EP and Army of the Dead scribe Joby Harold. The Vanderbilt project, from what we’ve heard, is based on Transformers spinoff Beast Wars which are robots that transform into robotic
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This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks. Global cases: More than 3.4 million Global deaths: More than 243,600 Most cases reported: United States (more than 1.1 million), Spain (over 216,500), Italy (over 209,300), United Kingdom (over 183,000), France
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