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NEW YORK — The night before the Big East championship game, Walter Berry, forever known around here as “The Truth,” shouldered through a crowded St. John’s locker room looking for RJ Luis. He needed to tell him something. Towering over reporters and guests of the program, he broke into a huddle of bodies around the St. John’s star and put massive hands upon Luis’ shoulders.“I am so happy to finally meet you,” Berry said, lowering his voice to add: “Tomorrow, young man, I want you to have this.”Berry is one of the all-time all-timers. Right up there with Chris Mullin,…

Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 4, 2024.CNBCWarren Buffett’s love for Japanese stocks grows fonder even as he increasingly sells U.S. equities.The 94-year-old investor’s Berkshire Hathaway holding company raised its holdings in five Japanese trading houses —  Itochu, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo — by more than 1 percentage point each, to stakes ranging from 8.5% to 9.8%, according to a regulatory filing.The “Oracle of Omaha” said in his 2024 annual letter that Berkshire is committed to its Japanese investments for the long term and has reached an agreement with the companies to go…

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Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada must strengthen ties with France and other allies in the face of geopolitical and economic crises. Making opening remarks in Paris before a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, Carney stressed both countries’ shared values of sovereignty, solidarity and sustainability.He said France and Canada have been reliable partners for centuries, and are now committed to “unwavering support” for Ukraine.This is Carney’s first in-person meeting with an international leader as prime minister.Macron called Canada a “unique friend” with a shared vision of freedom.Carney, who turned 60 on Sunday, is kicking off his first full week…

Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app Telegram who was charged in France last year with a range of crimes related to illicit activity on the app, has been allowed to temporarily leave the country.Mr. Durov had been barred from leaving France, but the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday that the investigative judges handling his case had lifted the travel restrictions between March 15 and April 7, when he must return to France.“I’ve returned to Dubai after spending several months in France due to an investigation related to the activity of criminals on Telegram,” said Mr. Durov, a…

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On a recent Friday morning, Daniel, a lawyer in his early 40s, was in a Zoom counseling session describing tapering off lithium. Earlier that week he had awakened with racing thoughts, so anxious that he could not read, and he counted the hours before sunrise.At those moments, Daniel doubted his decision to wean off the cocktail of psychiatric medications which had been part of his life since his senior year in high school, when he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.Was this his body adjusting to the lower dosage? Was it a reaction to the taco seasoning he had eaten the…

Conan O’Brien will reprise his Oscar hosting duties next year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday morning, in one of the earliest renewals for an Oscar host.The news comes after Mr. O’Brien received high marks for his work as the emcee of the 97th Oscar telecast, which delivered a five-year ratings high for ABC this month. It was his first time hosting the show.“The only reason I’m hosting the Oscars next year is that I want to hear Adrien Brody finish his speech,” Mr. O’Brien said in a statement, referring to Mr. Brody’s five-minute oration after…

A patriotic ‘Buy Australian’ fervour emerged on ABC’s flagship Q and A political debate program on Monday night, with the domestic steel industry taking centre stage amid US President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on local producers.South Coast Labour Council secretary Arthur Rorris asked the panel whether “buy Australian” should expand from consumer products like cheese and alcohol to include steel and aluminium, with state and federal governments potentially mandating the purchase of domestic steel products for large-scale projects.NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said his government was actively looking to buy local steel and it presented a “win-win” option for governments.“You…

More than 50,000 spectators filled Kennedy Stadium in Washington on Nov. 27, 1977, for a football game between two bitter rivals, the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys.There was drama in the game, with both teams in the hunt for a playoff berth, but more unusual was the entertainment before and at halftime: an enormous spectacle of Native American music, dance and history. It was, The Washington Post reported, “part of a new movement to re-establish American Indians as first-class citizens in the United States.”At the center of the event was the National Indian Honor Band — 150 students chosen from…