Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has overtaken Warren Buffett to become the world’s third-richest person. Zuckerberg is now worth $81.6 billion, about $373 million more than Buffett.
Zuckerberg only trails Amazon’s Jeff Bezos with $142 billion and Microsoft founder Bill Gates with $94.2 billion.
For the first time the three richest people all made their fortunes from technology.
Zuckerberg just passed Buffett on Friday, when Facebook shares climbed 2.4%, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
2 people shot in front of Long Island home of New York Rep. Lee Zeldin while daughters are inside
Republican candidate for New York governor, and current NY congressman Lee Zeldin says his family is safe after two strangers were shot outside his Long Island home on Sunday. In a statement released by his office, Zeldin
2 dead, 8 injured in stabbing rampage on the Las Vegas Strip
A suspect has been arrested in connection to a stabbing rampage in front of the Wynn Casino on the famed Las Vegas Strip that left two people dead and at least eight others wounded on Thursday.
President Biden announces pardons of federal marijuana offenses, urging states to follow
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced pardons for federal marijuana offenses, and urged states to consider pardons, as well. Biden also announced a plan to review how marijuana is classified under federal law.
