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AP Headline News - Apr 05 2024 06:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Fallewe. Two people dead in the fierce weather in the northeast. Heavy snow, rain, and high winds. The AP's Donna Warder. 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. One woman was killed by a falling tree in a New York City suburb, and in New Hampshire, a woman died in a Thursday morning house fire. That fire officials believe was started when a tree fell on the house near external propane tanks. I'm Donna Warder. President Biden was blunt yesterday in a phone call with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu, and now says the AP's Charles Stilladezma. Israel says it's taking steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, including reopening a key border crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza. The UN says much of the population in northern Gaza is on the brink of starvation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced the new steps early Friday. Ours earlier, President Joe Biden had told Netanyahu that future U.S. support for the war in Gaza depends on Israel doing more to protect civilians and aid workers. Gaza officials say the Palestinian death toll has passed 33,000 with over 75,000 wounded. I'm Charles Stilladezma. This morning, the UN's top human rights body is calling on countries to stop selling or shipping weapons to Israel. The resolution passed this morning by the Human Rights Council. President Biden will be in Baltimore today meeting with the relatives of those who died in that bridge collapse. The Labor Department releases the March jobs report this morning. Experts think the economy added 200,000 jobs. That would be good, but a slowdown from February's number, 275,000. Clouds could get in the way of some who are hoping to see that total solar eclipse on Monday. Storms could blanket parts of the path, which stretches from Texas through Maine. This is AP News. No labels, no candidate. The group No Labels says it will not run a third party campaign in the November presidential election. The bipartisan organization failed to attract a high profile centrist who wanted to take on the dissatisfaction with the major candidates. President Biden and former President Donald Trump, CEO Nancy Jacobson, says no candidates with a credible path to the White House emerged. And the responsible course of action was to stand down. It leaves anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the only prominent outsider still seeking the presidency. The announcement comes days after the death of the founding chairman of No Labels, former senator and former Democratic vice presidential candidate, Joe Lieberman. I'm Ed Donahue. Now to mortgage rates. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage is up to 6.8%. Many economists think, though, the mortgage rates will ease a little this year. I'm Rita Foley, AP News.