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AP Headline News - Apr 22 2024 12:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ed Donohue. Prosecutors say Donald Trump tried to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. Trump's lawyers countered telling jurors the former president was innocent and the case should have never been brought. Opening statements have started in New York and Trump's hush money trial. More from the courthouse, here's the AP's Julie Walker. The judge ruled to allow prosecutors to cross-examine Donald Trump if he chooses to take the stand in his defense about several of his recent legal setbacks. Trump shook his head as Judge Juan Mershon ruled that prosecutors can ask him about the outcome of his recent civil business fraud trial in which another judge found that Trump his business and key executives fraudulently inflated his wealth on paperwork used to secure loans and insurance. The judge says the court has struck this compromise in order to permit the defendant to testify on his own behalf if he chooses. But that he is putting strict limits on what prosecutors can question Trump about regarding those cases. At Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. The Supreme Court is weighing bans on homeless people, sleeping outdoors, and whether doing so amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. This is Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Needler. The ordinances are the equivalent of making a crime to be homeless while living in grants pass. Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the court this morning with thermal blankets and signs like housing, not handcuffs. The Supreme Court says it will take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult to trace ghost guns. The head of Israel's military intelligence directorate has resigned over Hamas's October attack. An AP investigation found the Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry. Stocks remain higher on Wall Street. This is AP News. Hitler's birthday has led to arrests. Police say four Germans were caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where the Nazi dictator was born in Austria on the anniversary of his birth. One gave a Hitler salute as the group posed for photos, say police, patrolling officers took them to a police station for questioning. The woman said she didn't mean the salute seriously, but officers say they found a chat with the others on her cell phone in which they shared Nazi-themed messages and pictures. Police say they were reporting all four to prosecutors on suspicion of violating a law that bans the symbols of Nazism. Police say the two are sisters and their partners in their twenties and early thirties. I'm Rita Folle. A court in Russia convicted Andy Stone, the spokesperson for the U.S. technology company Mehta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, for justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in a swift trial in absentia. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News. What if I told you that you can support your blood pressure and healthy CoQ-10 levels with two chews a day? The new SuperBeats heart chews advanced is now supercharged with CoQ-10. That's like getting CoQ-10 for free, our powerful blend of beetroot, grape seed extract, and CoQ-10 support your cardiovascular health. Visit RadioBeats.com and find out how you can get a free 30-day supply on bundles and say 15% with the promo code DEAL. Mike Rowe here with a few thoughts on my favorite sweatshirt, a classic zip-up hoodie that used to be navy blue but has since faded to what the fashionistas call a distressed indigo. It's 13 years old, soft as a flannel bathrobe, and after a few hundred dirty jobs, demonstrably and undeniably indestructible. This is the kind of sweatshirt girlfriends like to permanently borrow, but I've held onto this one because I got it from American Giant. American Giant makes all their stuff right here in the USA so they can control every link in their own supply chain. That matters because when you buy American Giant, you not only get great quality, you create jobs for people in factory towns all over the country. No pressure, but if you give a damn about the business of making things in America, you got to support the companies who are doing it right. Go to american-giant.com/mike to get 20% off your first order, that's american-giant.com/mike.