Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Apr 05 2024 05:00 (EDT)
(upbeat music) - This is AP News, I'm Rita Folley. - We'll begin with the fierce weather so many Americans are seeing the AP's Donna Water. - 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 Water. - Elsewhere cleanup work continues in several states racked by tornadoes and other severe weather, blamed for at least three deaths this week. Tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Georgia. Israel says it's working to reopen a key border crossing into Gaza. This just hours after President Biden had a blunt talk with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu. - President Biden has issued a stark warning to Israel's leader after Israeli airstrikes killed seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza. In a roughly half hour phone call, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says the president told Benjamin Netanyahu that future U.S. support for the Gaza war depends on Israel moving fast on new steps to protect civilians and aid workers. - If we don't see the changes that we need to see, there'll be changes in our own policy. - Sagar or Magony, Washington. - Today President Biden will visit the site of the collapsed bridge in Baltimore. Six people are believed to have died after a cargo ship hit the bridge. The president will meet with victims' relatives. The Dow dropped 530 points yesterday. This is AP News. There is new information about illegally trafficked firearms and where they're coming from, the AP's Lisa Dwyer. - 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. - And I'm Rita Foley, AP News. - When everyone is on the same page, getting things done is easy. Make a bigger impact at work with Grammarly. Grammarly is your secure AI writing partner that enables 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 gremmerly.com/podcast. That's gremmerly.com/podcast. Easier said, done.