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AP Headline News - Apr 23 2024 18:00 (EDT)
The Justice Department reached a nearly $139 million settlement with more than 100 people who accused the FBI of botching the Larry Nasser sexual assault probe. Sagar McGani has details. The allegations against Nasser, a sports doctor at Michigan State, and for USA Gymnastics came out in 2015 and 2016. Attorney Colonel Probe found FBI agents knew but apparently took no action. Survivors, including Olympians, some own vials railed against the Justice Department during a Senate hearing three years ago. "Enough is enough." And FBI Director Chris Ray apologized. "I'm especially sorry that there were people at the FBI who had their own chance to stop this monster back in 2015 and failed." Former gymnast Rachel Den Hollander was the first to publicly detail abuse at the hands of Nasser, who is now serving decades in prison. "A accountability with the Justice Department has been a long time in coming." Sagar McGani, Washington. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pekker returned to the witness stand in Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial. The AP's Michael Sisak was at the court. "He talked about a meeting at Trump Tower in August in 2015 where he met with Donald Trump, Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, and campaign communications director Hope Hicks, there he says they hatched a plan for the National Enquirer to help the campaign to, in his words, act as the eyes and ears of the Trump campaign. The National Enquirer was not only going to publish positive stories about Trump but also negative stories about his opponents, and they were going to look for negative stories about Donald Trump, possibly women coming forward with allegations of extramarital affairs. Pekker said he did this because he wanted to help his longtime friend get elected. "The Senate's moving ahead on a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan voting overwhelmingly to end a filibuster, final passage could come this evening. This is AP News." The Federal Trade Commission's voted to ban non-compete agreements. The bar employees jumping to were starting competing companies for a prescribed period of time. Seth Sutel has the AP Markets report. "Stocks rallied for a second straight day on Wall Street to soften what's been a rough April so far." The S&P 500 jumped 1.2 percent, pulling further out of the hole created by a six-day losing streak. The Dow rose 263 points. That's about 7-10 percent. The Nasdaq composite rose 1.6 percent. A weaker than expected report on business activity helps support the market by keeping hopes alive for cuts to interest rates this year by the Federal Reserve. A flood of earnings reports also dictated much of the trading. Several big U.S. companies rose after beating analysts' expectations. GE Aerospace, Donahur and Kimberly Clark all jumped to big gains. The yield on the 10-year treasury slipped to 4.60 percent. Seth Sutel, New York. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News. Thanks for listening. I'm Ben Thomas, AP News.