10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. FIGHTING ERUPTS UP ALONG GAZA FRONTIER
Rockets fired into southern Israel by Gaza militants kill at least four Israelis, while Israeli airstrikes kill 22 Palestinians in bloodiest fighting in five years.
2. WHO SAYS MUELLER SHOULDN’T TESTIFY
Reversing his previous declaration, President Trump tweets there should be “no redos for the Dems,” and Congress should not have a chance to question the special counsel about his report on the Russia investigation.
3. FIERY PLANE ACCIDENT KILLS AT LEAST 40 AT RUSSIAN AIRPORT
A regional jet spews huge flames and black smoke as it lands and speeds down a runway at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
4. TRUMP THREATENS TO INCREASE TARIFFS ON $200B OF CHINESE GOODS
The U.S. charges that China is resorting to predatory tactics like cyber theft in a drive to establish Chinese companies as world leaders in advanced industries such as robotics and electric vehicles.
5. WHAT GIVES BIDEN AN EARLY EDGE IN WHITE HOUSE RACE
The former vice president’s opponents privately concede that, for now at least, he has successfully cast himself as the candidate who can take down President Trump.
6. HOW MUCH ‘AVENGERS ENDGAME’ RAKES IN AT BOX OFFICE
The blockbuster crosses the $2 billion mark in a record two weeks, unseating “Titanic” as the second highest-grossing film ever worldwide.
7. BOEING DIDN’T TELL AIRLINES SAFETY ALERT WAS OFF
The aircraft maker waited until one of its 737 Max planes crashed in Indonesia to advise that an “angle of attack” warning indicator was not switched on.
8. CALIF. EYES IPO JACKPOT FROM TECH COMPANIES
Uber and Airbnb are among at least six California-based companies valued at more than $1 billion expected to go public this year, creating a new class of millionaires and billionaires and a welcome revenue quandary for the state’s budget writers.
9. IN CENTRAL MEXICO, VILLAGERS PAY HOMAGE TO VOLCANO GODDESS
Hundreds of men women, elderly and children make the biannual three-hour trek through steep pine forest and past babbling brooks to ask for the “Sleeping Woman” volcano’s aid and protection.
10. WHY ‘MAXIMUM SECURITY’ MIGHT NOT RACE IN PREAKNESS
“When you’re not going for the Triple Crown, sometimes it doesn’t make sense to wheel the horse back in two weeks,” says Gary West, co-owner of the bay colt that finished the Kentucky Derby first but was disqualified for interfering with other horses heading into the final stretch.
