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AP Headline News - Apr 23 2024 10:00 (EDT)
"This is AP News, I'm Rita Folle Way." It's a busy morning at Donald Trump's Hush Money trial in New York, the AP's Julie Walker is there. Before former National Enquirer editor David Packer gets back on the witness stand at Donald Trump's Hush Money trial telling jurors about his efforts to help the former president stifle unflattering stories during the 2016 campaign, prosecutors are expected to tell the judge that Trump should be held in contempt over a series of posts on his truth social platform that they say violated an earlier gag order barring him from attacking witnesses in the case, including Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen. Trump's lawyers deny that he broke the order. Trump also denies the charges of falsifying business records to cover salacious sex stories about him during the 2016 campaign. At Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. Colleges and universities are struggling with how to allow free speech while keeping campuses safe during protests centering on Israel's war with Hamas. The AP's Jackie Quinn. Tensions are heating up between Jewish students and pro-Palestinian sympathizers on college campuses. Outside, Columbia University in Manhattan officials in New York City and across the country are urging calm New York Governor Kathy Hochl outside Columbia University where in-person learning was canceled for the day. I'm Jackie Quinn. Russia has the momentum in its war with Ukraine. Today in Washington, the Senate will begin considering billions of dollars more in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. If it passes the Senate, it goes to President Biden for his signature. If migrants died while trying to cross the English Channel to get to Britain. Back here at home, gas is 367 a gallon this morning, up 3 cents in a week. This is AP News. The AP is Norman Hall now with the latest on the shooting of an airport director by federal agents. House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan has asked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to provide documents and information about its raid at the home last month of the Little Rock Arkansas Airport Director. Brian Malinowski died days after he was shot March 19 at his home in Little Rock while a warrant was being served. The ATF said agents returned fire after Malinowski shot at the agents, striking and entering one of them. Representative Jordan in a letter wrote that Malinowski exercises Second Amendment rights and was the firearms enthusiast. Jordan and other GOP lawmakers are questioning whether deadly force was justified. Norman Hall, Washington. Despite a small dip in vehicle sales, General Motors' first quarter net income rose more than 25 percent on strong deliveries of pickup trucks. I'm Rita Foley, AP News. Mike Rowe here with a radical idea. If you want to see more companies, make more things in this country. Buy more things from more companies who make things in this country. I refer in this case to the incredible t-shirts, sweatshirts, blue jeans and more made by my friends and American giant. Everything American giant makes is made in the United States. And right now, you can take 20 percent off your first order at american-giant.com/mike. That's american-giant.com/mike.