Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Apr 18 2024 19:00 (EDT)
Ify News, I'm Ben Thomas. Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to move a security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies through the House but still staring down a rebellion from hard-right Republicans. Sucker McGonney has a report. While Democrats like Jim McGovern say it's a long past time... "Our allies have been waiting and waiting and waiting." It's becoming clear Johnson will need Democrat help to not only pass the bills, but keep his job. Trump had said they will help vote down any motion to House Johnson. Other Republicans like House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCall say approving the aid is vital. "We are in a real pivotal point in history." He says scenes of people fleeing Ukraine evoke Hitler's rise to power. "This is 1939 all over again." Sucker McGonney, Washington. Russia says its air defense is down what they describe as five Ukrainian balloons. And pollens arrested a man suspected of spying for Russia to aid in the alleged plot to assassinate Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky. Former President Trump had a new complaint today about his hush money criminal trial in New York. "I'm sitting here for days now from morning till night in that freezing room. Freezing. Everybody is freezing in there." A jury of 12 people has been seated and alternates are now being selected. This after two jurors selected earlier in the week were dismissed. Mark Sissik has to tails on one of them. "An IT professional had said during questioning that he found Donald Trump mysterious and fascinating. But prosecutors raised questions about whether he had honestly answered a question about having in the past been accused or convicted of a crime. Prosecutors said they found a news article about a man with the same name who had been arrested in the 1990s for tearing down political posters in the New York City suburbs." At least 15 members of the Kennedy family have endorsed President Biden's re-election bid. This is AP News. The latest on legislative efforts to regulate artificial intelligence. "Lawmakers from a half dozen states are developing proposals to raid in potential racial and gender discrimination when AI is used in the hiring process. There's been a tug of war of sorts between civil rights groups and the artificial intelligence industry when it comes to transparency in the hiring process. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or EEOC estimates 83 percent of companies use computer-generated algorithms to filter out job applicants. Critics say they've seen AI fail to accurately consider medical patients who are black and resumes coming from women. Legislations in the works in Connecticut, Colorado and California that would require companies to self-report discrimination to state authorities. I'm Jackie Quinn. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News.