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    George Clooney makes surprise Comic Con appearance

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    In this Feb. 4, 2014 file, director and actor George Clooney attends the premiere of "The Monuments Men" at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

    By John Carucci

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Newly married George Clooney surprised fans with an appearance at New York Comic-Con on Thursday.

    Clooney, who married human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin on Sept. 27 in Venice, Italy, walked on stage during a panel discussion for the upcoming Disney fantasy film, "Tomorrowland," in which he plays a hermit inventor.

    "It's not lost on me that I'm spending my honeymoon at Comic-Con," Clooney told the crowd to thunderous applause.

    Panel moderator Chris Hardwicke then asked the actor, "So what did you say, 'Honey we're going to Comic-Con.'"

    "She was as confused as you all were," responded Clooney.

    Prior his walking on stage, Disney showed the crowd a two-minute trailer of the film.

    "We've been waiting on this for a year and a half and that's it," Clooney told director Brad Bird. "I'm barely in the teaser."

    Later, Clooney introduced an exclusive clip from the film that prominently showed him and Britt Robertson in an action sequence.

    Clooney called the experience larger than anything he's ever done.

    "We were all over the world for this film. Hugh (Laurie) and I got to get in trouble in the Bahamas. That was fun, two former television doctors," Clooney told the crowd to prolonged laughter. "Bring on that McSteamy guy, we'll take on all of them TV doctors."

    Laurie starred on "House," while Clooney appeared on "ER."

    He also hammed it up with references to superheroes. "Since I did Batman, I've been de-invited from Comic Con. … I met Adam West and apologized."

    "Tomorrowland" is set for release next May.

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    Berkshire Hathaway boosted stake in Google parent Alphabet

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    Shareholders wait in line outside CHI Health Center Omaha for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, May 2, 2026, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz, File)

    Berkshire Hathaway is increasing the size of its stake in Google's parent company and beefing up its holdings in homebuilders, according to the conglomerate's latest snapshot of its investment portfolio.

    The Omaha, Nebraska-based company also continued to pare its stake in financial companies and a number of other stocks in the April-June quarter, according to a regulatory filing filed late Friday.

    CEO Greg Abel, who took over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year, agreed in June to make a $10 billion stock investment in Alphabet, expanding on the stake that Berkshire started to build last fall.

    In the second quarter, Berkshire picked up roughly 48.1 million shares in Alphabet, bringing its total shares in the tech giant to roughly 106 million. That stake was valued at about $37.76 billion as of June 30, according to the filing. As recently as the end of December, Berkshire held only 17.8 million Alphabet shares worth $5.6 billion.

    Alphabet has said it plans to raise $80 billion to pay for the computing infrastructure needed to power its AI offerings.

    Beyond tech, Berkshire continued to boost its investments in the U.S. homebuilding sector. Its stake in homebuilder Lennar increased nearly 30% in the second quarter. Berkshire also established a small new stake in D.R. Horton that was worth $580,504 at the end of June.

    In July, Berkshire completed a $6.8 billion acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison.

    Berkshire also sharply increased its shares in Delta Air Lines and Macy's in the second quarter. The stakes were worth about $5.37 billion and $173 million, respectively, as of June 30.

    Berkshire also pruned its investment portfolio in the second quarter, reducing its stake in several companies relative... Read More

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