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AP Headline News - Apr 17 2024 21:00 (EDT)
AP news on my campaign. President Biden says he strongly supports a proposal from Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to provide aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. His comments send crucial bipartisan report to the effort this week to approve $95 billion in funding for the U.S. allies. Johnson was facing a choice between potentially losing his job in funding Ukraine. What we've done here in the House is we've taken the House supplemental and the Senate supplemental and we've made it into our own. It's an improvement in the process and improvement in the policy. Johnson has notified lawmakers who forge ahead despite growing anger on his right flank. The Senate has dismissed all impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The move essentially ends the trial before it ever began. President Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says history will not judge this moment well. By doing what we just did, we have in effect ignored the directions of the House which were to have a trial that no evidence, no procedure, this is a day that's not a proud day in the history of the Senate. House Republicans were pushing to remove the Cabinet Secretary from office over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Justice Department has agreed to pay about $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nasser, a source with direct knowledge and the negotiations had stole the AP about the deal. It has not been finalized and no money has been paid. The Paris Games are 100 days away and police have carried out a large-scale eviction at France's biggest squat in the South of Paris. This is AP News. Toronto Raptors forward Jante Porter has been banned for life by the NBA as a result of a sports betting scandal, corresponding Geffen Koolball with the details. The league said Porter gave a better information about his own health status prior to Toronto's game on March 20th, the league said an NBA better placed an $80,000 bet that Porter would not hit numbers set for him and parlays through an online sports book. The bet, which was frozen and not paid out, would have won $1.1 million. NCAA athletes will be immediately eligible to play, no matter how many times they transfer, as long as they meet academic requirements. The move by the NCAA Division I Council fast-tracks legislation to fall in line with a recent court order. The council's decision still needs approval from the D1 board, which meets next week. The rules would go into effect immediately. I'm Mike Empin, AP News.