Billionaire Warren Buffett will remain with Berkshire Hathaway as chairman of the board when vice chairman Greg Abel takes over as CEO to begin 2026. The board of directors at the cash-rich conglomerate voted Sunday to keep the legendary 94-year-old investor as head of the board, a decision likely to relieve investors worried about Berkshire’s remarkable winning streak as the U.S. and global economies are beset by tariff shocks, financial turmoil and a growing risk of recession. The board in the same meeting also approved Buffett’s chosen successor as CEO, veteran Berkshire executive Greg Abel, 62. In a surprise announcement Saturday, Buffett said he would step down from that top spot at the end of the year.

President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years. In a post on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, “For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than Misery and Suffering. When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm.

The Federal Reserve will likely keep its key short-term interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, despite weeks of harsh criticism and demands from President Donald Trump that the Fed reduce borrowing costs. After causing a sharp drop in financial markets two weeks ago by saying he could fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump subsequently backed off and said he had no intention of doing so. Still, he and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have said the Fed should cut rates. They argue that inflation has steadily cooled and high borrowing costs are no longer needed to restrain price increases. The Fed sharply ramped up its short-term rate in 2022 and 2023 as pandemic-era inflation spiked.

Thousands of people lined the roads around the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace on Monday as British and allied troops paraded past at the start of four days of pageantry to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. After Big Ben tolled at the stroke of noon, actor Timothy Spall recited the victory speech that Winston Churchill delivered to a roaring crowd in central London on May 8, 1945. Britain started its commemorations of V-E Day three days early, because Monday is a public holiday in the U.K. The Cenotaph, the nation’s war memorial, was covered with Union Jack flags. It was the first time that the memorial had been draped in the flags since it was unveiled by King George V in 1920, two years after the end of World War I.

President Donald Trump has issued a bold directive to several top federal agencies — including the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, FBI, and Department of Homeland Security — ordering the revival and expansion of the infamous Alcatraz prison. His goal is to create a high-security facility for the nation’s most dangerous and repeat violent offenders.

President Donald Trump is opening a new salvo in his tariff war, targeting films made outside the U.S. In a post Sunday night on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he has authorized the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to slap a 100% tariff “on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.” “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote, complaining that other countries “are offering all sorts of incentives to draw” filmmakers and studios away from the U.S. “This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat.

BREAKING: New York City has introduced a crime-fighting initiative that provides store owners with panic buttons to enhance their safety and security.

Another fire has erupted in Kazeroon, Iran, at an underground ammunition depots belonging to the Iranian Imam Sajjad Commando Brigade.

This morning, a Houthi missile misfired and crashed in Yemen’s central Ibb governorate.

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Two suspects, a minor and a 19-year-old from East Jerusalem, were arrested next to Ben Shemen Forest on Sunday on suspicion of arson. An Israeli citizen had called police after spotting the pair on the side of the road lighting something and throwing it into a wooded area. Officers arrived and arrested the suspects on the spot.

The IDF reported that its 810th “Mountains” Regional Brigade, along with combat engineers and paratroopers, raided and demolished the main headquarters of the former Syrian regime at Mount Hermon’s peak, uncovering bunkers and a cache of weapons, including artillery cannons, rockets, launchers, mortars, explosives, and mines belonging to the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Since the Assad regime’s fall in December, the IDF has deployed to nine posts in southern Syria, primarily within a UN-patrolled buffer zone along the border, operating up to 15 kilometers deep to seize weapons that could threaten Israel if acquired by hostile forces, with Israeli officials aiming to fully demilitarize the area and prevent any armed groups.

An airstrike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis yesterday destroyed a primed Hamas rocket launching position, the military says.

This morning, significant U.S. air activity was observed over the eastern Deir Ezzor desert, with footage capturing an A-10 Thunderbolt and an Apache attack helicopter conducting operations in the area.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The time has come to strike Gaza hard, take full control, impose military rule, seize territory, and carry out President Trump’s plan to relocate 1.5 to 2 million Gazans out of the Strip, there’s no other choice.”

Pope Francis’ Popemobile is being repurposed into a mobile clinic for children in Gaza, fulfilling what many say was his final request.

On Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s This Week, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie criticized President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, saying they have led to the United States being viewed globally as an “unreliable partner.”
Host George Stephanopoulos brought up the topic by noting that tariffs had become a central issue early in Trump’s second term. “I think you identified the tariffs as the number one issue. Liberation Day is probably the most consequential day of the first 100 days. Is there an exit strategy for Donald Trump on this?” he asked. “Can he make this sort of series of deals that limit the damage?”

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