Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Apr 05 2024 08:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Folle. It's an embarrassing admission by Israel. The Israeli military is revealing the results of an investigation into the strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers. It says officers mishandled critical information and violated the army's rules of engagement. Two officers have been dismissed. Three others have been reprimanded. The world's central kitchen, whose workers were killed, says this is an important step forward, but it says there has to be systemic change. Meanwhile, the US is reacting to word that Israel will take steps to make sure more aid can get into Gaza, the AP's Charles de Litesma. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the measures the Israeli government has announced to expand the flow of aid into Gaza are welcome, but may not be enough to meet the Biden administration's demands for dramatic improvements in humanitarian conditions in the territory. Charles de Litesma reporting. Now to that stormy weather so many Americans are wrestling with the AP's Donna Warder with this. A spring storm has brought heavy wet snow to the northeast and at one point about 700,000 homes and businesses lost power. Maine and New Hampshire got most of the power outages, but Portland main resident Jane Phillips, who was cross-country skiing in her neighborhood, says snow this time of year is a welcome thing. It's special to get snow in April and to be able to get out and enjoy it, you know, it's funding a manor. The National Weather Service said some two feet of snow was expected in parts of northern New England with wind gusts of 50 to 60 miles an hour. I'm Donna Warder. We'll get the March jobs report shortly. Analysts think employers added 200,000 jobs in March. That would be a good number, they say. They'll one that would be a slowdown from February's number. An Air New Zealand passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup on an airplane. This is AP News. Now to new information about illegally trafficked firearms and where those firearms are coming from. New data released by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says that more than 68,000 illegally trafficked firearms in the U.S. between 2017 and 2021 came through unlicensed dealers who are not required to perform background checks and are not required to keep records of their sales. Almost 60% of closed cases during that time period that could be traced involved people who had previously been convicted of a felony. The Biden administration has separately proposed a rule that would require thousands more gun sellers to get licensed and run background checks. That proposal quickly drew protests from gun rights groups who contend it would instill regular people who sometimes sell their own guns. I'm Lisa Dwyer. I'm Rita Folley, AP News. 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, done.