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Warren Buffett excludes Gates Foundation from his annual donations of Berkshire stock

Warren Buffett said that it didn't come as a surprise when he told Bill Gates about his decision to stop donating to the Gates Foundation after partnering on the group's philanthropic initiatives for two decades.Buffett, 95, didn't include the Gates Foundation when he announced the donation of almost $6 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock on Tuesday, a move which follows revelations about interactions between Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The billionaire told CNBC he "had read what Congress came up with. I'd read everything," after Gates recently met...