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AP Headline News - Apr 19 2024 18:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas. Well, Jerry's conceded in Donald Trump's Hush Bunny trial. The AP's my campaign. After lawyers spent days quizzing dozens of New Yorkers, a jury of 12 people and six alternates is in place. They're vowing to put their personal views aside and impartially judge whether Trump is guilty or not. Opening statements are expected next week. The jury was seated, emergency crews responded to a park outside the courthouse where a person was on fire. People rushed over with a fire extinguisher and worked to bat away the flames before the person was taken away on a stretcher. No word on a condition. I'm Mike Empen. This is really a concerted witch. Donald Trump predictably unhappy. Police reviewing whether to restrict access to a public park outside the court where Trump's trials being held after a man set himself on fire this afternoon in YPD Chief Jeffrey Madre. Civilians, court officers, members of the police department, they run into the park. They make efforts to put him out. They use their coats, they use fire extinguishers, eventually FDNY response. We're able to put them out, extinguish the fire. And from that point, we remove him to Cornell burn unit where right now he's there in critical condition. Iran and Israel have both been playing down in an apparent Israeli airstrike near a major air base and nuclear site in central Iran, a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies has moved closer to passage in the House, Democrats joining Republicans to approve a key procedural vote. And the Biden administration is restricting oil and gas leasing in 13 million acres of Alaska's petroleum reserve. This is AP News. The United Auto Workers' drive to expand its reach to non-union factories across the South faces a key test tonight when workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee finish voting on whether to join the union. And Amy and Troy see has the AP markets report. The worst week for big technology stocks since the COVID crash in 2020 dragged Wall Street across the finish line of another losing week. The S&P 500 fell 0.9 percent Friday to close out its third straight losing week. The Nasdaq tumbled 2 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average was an outlier and rose 0.6 percent. Super microcomputer lost more than a fifth of its value. The video was the single heaviest weight on the S&P 500. Helping to limit the market's losses was American Express, which rose after reporting stronger than expected profit for its latest quarter. Fifth Third Bank Corp also rose after it likewise topped expectations. Amy and Troy see New York.