Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Mar 27 2024 20:00 (EDT)
AP News. I'm high up in Joani. Two bodies have been recovered from the water after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed during a press briefing. Maryland Secretary of State Police Roland L. Butler Jr. said the two bodies were encased in a vehicle in the wreckage. It took them a while to secure that vehicle properly. Place airbags around the vehicle. Then it was very slow traveling to tow that vehicle to the shoreline. At some point they realized that the water's depth was not support toing it all the way in. It was at that point. The the seas were removed from the vehicle and brought to the shore where they replaced in the custody of the medical examiner's office. The audio is courtesy of WMAR. Former US Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election has died. He was 82. Here he is speaking to reporters shortly after that election. Proud of the race we ran. Proud of the principles we ran on. It's grateful for the support we see received throughout America. Talks have restarted to bring a delegation of top Israeli officials to Washington to discuss potential military operations in the Palestinian city of Rafa. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. These talks will get us into a place where there is a plan that we hear their side, they hear our side. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a visit plan for this week angered that the US had not vetoed a UNC fire resolution. I'm not the US decision to make off the security council. There, very bad move. Venting to visiting US lawmakers. Victory is within reach. It's a few weeks away, but he went on. Now we are told you can't do this. If you're going to Rafa, you're going to have a humanitarian catastrophe. Downplaying the impact of a Rafa operation on Palestinian civilians. You know, people down they can move back up. They don't have to go into north of Wadi Gaza, but there's still 65% of the Gaza Strip left open and people just move. They move with their tents. Ben Thomas, Washington. This is AP news. There have been courtroom developments in a human trafficking case. AP correspondent Jennifer King reports. Two men harsh Kumar Patel and Stephen Shand pled not guilty to charges of human smuggling during a brief teleconference with a judge in Duluth, Minnesota. Their case led to headlines for members of a family from India who got separated from their group froze to death near the border in Manitoba in 2022. The victims were Jagdish Patel, his wife, 11 year old daughter and three year old son. Shand was stopped by the US Border Patrol in Minnesota with two people from India still in his van. Other survivors told officers they've been walking for more than 11 hours in temperatures well below zero. Authorities say Patel, who went by the nickname Dirty Harry, was connected to a human trafficking group based in northwest India. He allegedly hired Shand to drive the Indian nationals from the border to the Chicago area where they are expected to work for substandard wages at Indian restaurants while they paid off their smuggling debt. I'm Jennifer King. I'm Hayapan-Jwani AP News. Find your perfect fit with a custom suit from Indochino from timeless classics to bold statements. You can express your style exactly how you want. Get 10% off any purchase of $3.99 or more at indochino.com with code podcast. When everyone's on the same page, getting things done at work is easy. Make a bigger impact at work with Grammarly. Grammarly is your secure AI writing partner that allows your team to make their point and move faster. You can even save time by going from spending hours editing drafts to just seconds. Join the 96% of Grammarly users that say it helps them craft more impactful writing. Sign up and download Grammarly for free at Grammarly.com/podcast. That's Grammarly.com/podcast. Easier said.