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Warren Buffett donated 50 Class A shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock worth $27 million to an unnamed charity this week

Also Read: Warren Buffett’s legacy will extend well beyond wealth According to the Newsweek report, Buffett's company spent only $1.4 billion in buybacks—a modest sum for the stock market and much less than the $4 billion it spent in the first quarter. The Nebraska-based legendary investor Warren Buffett, also nicknamed ‘Oracle of Omaha’, is widely followed by investors across the globe and his decisions are closely analyzed.

The Michigan State University Board of Trustees on Wednesday authorized the school to request liquor licenses to sell alcohol at four football games beginning with a Sept. 16 game against the University of Washington

Union Pacific’s new CEO Jim Vena started Monday by promising to improve safety and service to help the railroad grow, but he cautioned that “the road ahead won’t be an easy one.”

Warren Buffett’s company appears to be betting on the housing market picking up because Berkshire Hathaway bought more than $700 million worth of homebuilder DR Horton’s stock this spring along with smaller stakes in fellow builders Lennar Corp. and NV...

Union Pacific’s new CEO Jim Vena started Monday by promising to improve safety and service to help the railroad grow, but he cautioned that “the road ahead won’t be an easy one.”

Profits rebounded at Warren Buffett’s conglomerate along with the value of its $353 billion stock portfolio in the second quarter to hit $35.9 billion

(Reuters) -Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday posted its highest ever quarterly operating profit, while gains from stock holdings helped the conglomerate led by billionaire Warren Buffett swing to a nearly $36 billion overall profit.

Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday posted its highest ever quarterly operating profit, while gains from stock holdings helped the conglomerate led by billionaire Warren Buffett swing to a nearly $36 billion overall profit. Rising interest rates and dividend payouts, as well as a rebound in performance at the Geico car insurer, have been helping Berkshire's insurance businesses generate more money, with profit up 38% from a year earlier. That helped offset declines at other businesses including the BNSF railroad, where lower shipments of consumer goods and increased price competition from the trucking industry contributed to a 24% drop in overall profit.

North Dakota regulators have denied a siting permit for a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline that would pass through five states

Minnesota’s legalization of recreational marijuana went into effect Tuesday

A minor coal train derailment in Virginia in early July prompted Norfolk Southern to rethink the way it responds to problems with overheating bearings

Roughly 7,500 BNSF train engineers may get up to eight days of paid sick time and more predictable schedules if they approve a deal with the railroad announced Tuesday

H2X Global, an Australian hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle company, will receive up to $86 million in capital over the next two years from Nebraska-based Verde Mobility as it targets commercial production by 2025.

‘Eagles’ was one of the most successful rock bands in history, it sold more than 150 million albums across the world. It was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Meisner helped establish this rock band in 1971. He died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Paying tribute to Meisner, Randy Bachman of the group, Bachman Turner Overdrive said that he was sorry to know that Meisner had left. He called him an ‘incredible singer, songwriter, and bassist’ and prayed for his friends and family. Born in Nebraska, Meisner moved to California and played music and sang songs for Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, and Poco. Later he joined Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Bernie Leadon to set up the Eagles. He experimented with different types of rock music. Before moving to hard rock, he tried the country-tinged, laid-back West Coast pop-rock sound that created quite a few ripples in the world of music in the 1970s. He soon became exhausted and quit the rock band six years later. As a solo artist, Meisner performed well and composed music like ‘Hearts on Fire’ and ‘Deep Inside My Heart’. He also played on records for other performers like James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, and another Eagles star, Joe Walsh. Meisner will mainly be remembered for musical hits like ‘Hotel California’ and ‘The Best of My Love’. He was not invited to the reunion tour of the band in 1994. But he joined them at the New York City induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

The costs associated with Norfolk Southern's fiery February derailment in Ohio have more than doubled to $803 million as the railroad works to clean up the mess and moves forward with all the related lawsuits

Union Pacific has hired the CEO candidate favored by a hedge fund that's been pressuring the railroad to improve

Fewer shipping container deliveries this spring slowed railroad CSX's second-quarter profit and offset a sharp increase in shipments of automobiles

plastic food containers can release billions of small toxic plastic particles, according to a study. The researchers found that microwaving plastic baby food containers released over two billion nanoplastics and four million microplastics for every square centimeter of container in some cases. The study, published recently in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, also found that three-quarters of cultured embryonic kidney cells had died after two days of being introduced to those same particles.

Union Pacific will renew its push for one-person train crews later this summer when the railroad tests out the idea of having a conductor in a truck respond to problems on trains in Nebraska and Colorado

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