Moscow airport plane fire: Forty-one people killed in Aeroflot crash landing:
Aeroflot flight SU 1492 skidded down the runway at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, its rear section ablaze and spilling thick, black smoke.
Once the plane had come to a halt, passengers escaped using emergency slides from the plane’s two forward doors, before running away from the burning aircraft.
Initial reports said the Superjet 100 was flying from Moscow to Murmansk, a Russian city in the Arctic circle, when an emergency on board forced it to turn back.
Trump warns presidency is being stolen amid Mueller angst:
Trump on Sunday called for Mueller to be barred from testifying to Congress — in a hearing that could come as soon as May 15 — as his anxiety exploded in a double barreled tweet that reversed a position expressed only two days earlier.
Authorities have said that Riley Howell, a 21-year-old ROTC cadet at UNCC, charged the shooter after he opened fire with a pistol in a classroom last Tuesday, saving the lives of others.
Howell was killed, along with 19-year-old Reed Parlier of Midland, North Carolina. Four others were injured.
‘Avengers: Endgame’ crosses the $2 billion mark in record time:
The Disney (
DIS)and Marvel film has crossed the $2 billion mark at the worldwide box office. It’s the fifth film in history to do so.
The film has made $2.189 billion in 11 days of release, which is the fastest any film has made $2 billion. It is now the second highest-grossing film of all time.
The film, which stars Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and Chris Evans as Captain America, notched an estimated $428 million globally for its second weekend of release. That includes an estimated $146 million in North America.
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway buys Amazon shares:
Not anymore.
Buffett revealed on Thursday that Berkshire Hathaway (
BRKA) has been buying Amazon shares, noting that the exact amount will be disclosed in Berkshire’s quarterly report to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission later this month.
“One of the fellows in the office that manage money … bought some Amazon,” Buffett said in an
interview with CNBC. He was referring to Berkshire Hathaway’s top investment managers Ted Weschler or Todd Combs, according to CNBC
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