Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Apr 12 2024 14:00 (EDT)
AP News. I'm Ned Donahue. The House has passed reauthorization of a key surveillance program. The bill does not include broad restrictions on how the FBI uses the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, FISA, also known as Section 702, to search for Americans' data. Critics among the Republicans, George's Marjorie Taylor Greene. Do you trust the Department of Justice to hold the FBI accountable? Because I don't. On his truth social site, former President Donald Trump wrote in Capitol letters, "Kill FISA," saying it was illegally used against him. Colorado Democrat Jonah Gu says Republicans held back passage on this and other important legislation. "Instead? Their top priority? The refrigerator Freedom Act." The bill now moves on to the Senate. The agency says a commercial vehicle crashed into a Texas Department of Public Safety Office in a rural town west of Houston. Several people were seriously injured. Multiple news reports showed images of a large red tractor trailer hauling material on a flatbed in the parking lot of the building. The front end of the 18-wheeler was smashed in and covered with debris from the front doors of the office. Two Palestinians were killed. In confrontations with Israeli forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Hamas says one of those killed was a local commander. National Security spokesman John Kirby was asked about relief efforts in Gaza. "Over the last few days, we have seen more than a thousand trucks get in. That is certainly welcome. And I mean, getting in, I don't mean at the border. We've seen more than a thousand get into Gaza." Six months of fighting in Gaza have pushed the tiny Palestinian territory into a humanitarian crisis, leaving more than a million people on the brink of starvation. A Tennessee man, Kliyota Abston, has been found guilty of raping a woman a year before he was charged with kidnapping and killing a schoolteacher who was on an early morning run. This is AP News. A new study focuses on one factor in the economy. Immigrant workers are the secret ingredient to the United States' healthy economy. That's according to a study by economists at the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project. Workers from other countries are filling more jobs and spending more money that has helped drive economic growth and create even more job openings. It also means companies aren't as pressured to sharply raise wages. In return, companies don't have to raise product prices to raise labor costs. Earlier this year, the Congressional Budget Office had said that net immigration since 2019, which is Arrivals Mind Its Departures, was 3.3 million people. I'm Haya Punjwani. The Coast Guard says three men stranded on an uninhabited Pacific atoll survive for over a week before being rescued. The fishermen spelled out "help" with palm fronds on a beach, enabling Navy and Coast Guard aviators to pinpoint them on the remote island. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News. [SPEAKING SPANISH] ADP knows anything you hear, anything you don't hear, anything you kind of heard, anything you weren't supposed to hear and now have to pretend like you didn't, can change the world of work. From HR to payroll, ADP designs forward-thinking solutions to take on the next anything. Verbal vacation homes come with 24/7 live support. So if you ever need anything, you can reach a real person in about a minute. Hey, how can I help? Verbal. Private vacation rentals for you and your people.