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AP Headline News - Mar 08 2024 12:00 (EST)
AP News, I'm Ed Donny. Former President Donald Trump's lawyer, Alina Haba, filed papers saying Trump secured a bond enough to support an $83.3 million jury award granted to writer E. Jean Carroll during a defamation trial stemming from rape claims Carroll made against Trump. An appeal of the verdict was also filed. President Biden is hitting the road to aggressively pitch the nation on his vision for another term. His re-election campaign was almost giddy after the State of the Union address where a defiant president hammered likely November opponent Donald Trump's own vision. "A resentment, revenge and retribution. That's not me." The campaign's vowing to keep up the momentum, saying the president and vice president will visit every major swing state in coming days. The president's first stops are Pennsylvania and Georgia over the next day. Two battlegrounds he flipped four years ago and hopes to keep in the fall. Next week it'll be Wisconsin and Michigan. The Trump campaign is targeting essentially the same areas, looking to flip those four states plus Arizona and hold off the Biden campaign North Carolina and Florida. Sagar, Magani, Washington. A top European Union official says a charity ship will head to Gaza as a pilot operation for new humanitarian sea corridor. Yesterday, President Biden announced the military will set up a temporary pier on Gaza's coast. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says the focus is still on a ceasefire. "The issue is Hamas. The issue is whether Hamas will decide or not to have a ceasefire that would benefit everyone. The vault is in their court. We're working intensely on it." The government says a healthy 275,000 jobs were added last month. A judge in Michigan is restricting the use of a phone and tablet by James Crumley, the father of a Michigan school shooter, after he used them to make threatening statements from jail. This is AP news. Authorities say a suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels set off explosions near a vessel in the Gulf of Aden. "No one was hurt and the ship continued on its way. That's according to the British military's UK Maritime Operations Center, which watches over mid-east waterways. The Houthis did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack, something that typically takes them several hours. Friday's assault comes after a Houthi missile struck a commercial ship in at the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, killing three of its crew members and forcing survivors to abandon the vessel. I'm Charles de la Desma. The government is suspending mail orders for free coronavirus tests, at least for now. Today is the last day residential households can request free virus tests shipped through the postal service. It's still possible the program could resume down the road, with the government noting it has reserved the right to use covatest.gov in the future as needed. I'm Ed Donahue, AP news. (speaking in foreign language) If you own a small business, you might be asking yourself, "Can Tax Act help me do my business and personal taxes?" The answer is yes. If the answer was no, it would have been pretty ill-advised of Tax Act to have asked that question in the first place. And Tax Act prides itself on not doing ill-advised things. In conclusion, Tax Act can help small business owners get their personal and business taxes done. Tax Act, let's get them over with. Why is it that with sparkling water, I'm always playing guessing games with what flavor I'm drinking? Is it citrus? Is it aluminum can flavored? Not sure. Sparkling ice though? They really mean flavor. Like in your face flavor. Orange mango, black raspberry, Tony would get me started on the strawberry lemonade. Kiwi's strawberries slid right into my taste buds' DMs last night and let them know who's boss. No subtleties there and no sugar either. But it does have vitamins and antioxidants. Fine sparkling ice at a major grocery store or club retailer near you. Sparkling ice. Anything but subtle. It's buck sex in along with Clay Drive is talking about Dan Capitalist Law. Buck Dan's the son of a police officer. And a guy who finished law school and aimed high to build a world-class firm for the people where everyone regardless of background gets top-notch treatment. Dan Capitalist Law lives that mission, scoring record verdicts for folks from all walks of life and they don't care about your wallet. Righteous cases are taken on a percentage fee basis.