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Warren Buffett’s final charity lunch draws record $19M bid

An anonymous bidder has shelled out a record $19 million for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffet at a steakhouse in New York City.

The meal with the Berkshire Hathaway CEO was offered on an eBay auction to benefit the San-Francisco-based charity GLIDE, which helps homeless people and those in poverty. The winner can bring up to seven guests.

Panel sharpens focus on Trump’s ‘crazy’ Jan. 6 plan

Donald Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat came into ever-clearer focus Thursday, with testimony describing his pressuring Vice President Mike Pence in vulgar private taunts and public entreaties to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the run-up to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Musk to address Twitter employees this week

Elon Musk will address Twitter employees Thursday for the first time since the billionaire and Tesla CEO offered $44 billion to buy the social media platform, the company said yesterday.

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced an all-hands meeting to employees in an email on June 13, saying they'd be able to submit questions in advance, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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