Monday, April 11 top stories
It is Monday, April 11. Here are today’s top stories.
Atlanta airport is world’s busiest
The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world’s busiest airport according to passenger volume in 2021. In the last year, for 2020, the No. 1 busiest airport was the Guangzhou Baryon International Airport in China. But in 2019 and the 22 years prior to last year, Atlanta was the busiest, and now it’s back on top again with 75.7 million passengers in 2021. Although that number is high, it’s about 30% less than pre-pandemic 2019 figures.
Philadelphia to mandate masks
Philadelphia announced it would reinstate its indoor mask mandate beginning April 18 because of increasing Covid-19 cases. Philadelphia ended its mask mandate a month ago, but now it’s back in place because cases are now more than 50% higher than they were 10 days ago.
Elon Musk and Twitter
The CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, said on Sunday that Elon Musk would not be joining the company’s board. Just a few days ago it was said that Musk would be on the board after he purchased over 9% of the company’s shares, making him the biggest shareholder.
In the past few days, Musk posted many different ideas and criticisms of the company, such as turning the headquarters building in San Francisco into a homeless shelter because “nobody shows up anyway.” It was all confusing on what was happening within Twitter.
Now Musk is no longer on the board, but he still owns the shares.
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Gun range murders
The owner of a gun store and shooting range, his wife, and 19-year-old grandson were murdered during a robbery on Friday night in Grantville, Georgia.
Law enforcement said the suspects stole about 40 weapons and camera and recording equipment. They have not yet figured out the identities of the suspects.
The owner’s name was Tommy Hawk, his wife’s name was Evelyn, and the grandson’s name was Luke.
The county coroner, Richard Hawk, was the son of the parents and the father of the grandson. He was one of the first people to arrive at the scene and tragically discovered the bodies.
There is a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspects.
Cops who shoved elderly man cleared of wrongdoing
In June 2020, during nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, police officers in riot gear in Buffalo, New York were seen on video shoving an elderly man backwards, causing him to fall and fracture his skull. Two officers were suspended and arrested because of this, but the charges were dropped last year. Now an arbitrator has ruled that the police officers did not do any kind of wrongdoing. The arbitrator said the officers had no other options to move the man out of the way and that the man, Martin Gugino, did not comply with police orders to leave the scene.
Gugino has already filed a lawsuit against the police department and his attorney said they are still proceeding with the case.
The two officers were reinstated back on duty today.
Russia-Ukraine war updates
Russia has appointed a new general to lead its military invasion, Gen. Alexander Dvornikov. CNN explained that he was a commander of military operations in Syria from 2015 to 2016, during a time that many cities were bombed.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said he expects Russia’s military to launch full-scale combat actions in Ukraine’s east and are seeing Russian troops mass up in the region.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Saturday to show a message of solidarity. The Chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer, also visited Zelenskyy over the weekend.
Nehammer said he had an in-person meeting with Russian President Putin today for about 75 minutes. Nehammer said the meeting was “not friendly” and tough because he recently visited Ukraine and saw with his own eyes the “immeasurable suffering” caused by Russia. Nehammer said he “addressed the serious war crimes in Bucha and other places” to Putin and emphasized that all responsible must be held accountable.
That is all the top stories for today. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
https://abc7news.com/elon-musk-twitter-vote-homeless-community-sf-shelter/11734611/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/buffalo-police-officers-cleared-shoving-man-1.6415333
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/us/georgia-shooting-range/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-busiest-airports-2021/index.html
https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2022/04/11/philadelphia-to-reinstate-mask-mandate