Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Apr 24 2024 05:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Folle. They've been getting more and more tense standoffs between pro-Palestinian student protesters and universities. MIT student Quinn Perry and his pointing a finger at his school. They've had over 11 million dollars allocated in investments for projects directly relating to the Israeli Ministry of Defense in the past decade. This is exceptionally direct. MIT is building the weapons that Israel and the Israeli military are using. President Biden says today he'll sign that just passed bill to help Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The AP's Ben Thomas. On this vote, the A's are 79, the nays are 18. The final tally is the Senate passed 95 billion dollars in war raid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Majority leader Chuck Schumer. Tonight we make Vladimir Putin regret the day he questioned American resolve. We can wish for a world where the responsibilities of leadership don't follow us or we can act like we understand that they do. Minority leader Mitch McConnell. America stepped up and the Senate held firm. The package includes legislation that would force TikTok's China-based parent company to sell the social media platform or face a ban. The UN wants an investigation of mass graves uncovered at two hospitals in Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops. Tomorrow, Thursday, the Supreme Court hears arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. An airplane carrying two people crashed into a river near Fairbanks, Alaska yesterday and burst into flames. No survivors have been found. This is AP News. Now to the Trump trial in New York. The AP's Julie Walker is there testifying in Donald Trump's hush money trial. The former publisher of the National Enquirer David Pecker told jurors that Trump's lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen would call him and say, "We would like for you to run a negative article on a certain political opponent." Pecker said he would send me information about Ted Cruz or about Ben Carson or Marco Rubio, such as bungling surgeon Ben Carson left sponge in patients' brain. Pecker said he would send Cohen drafts of these stories to which Cohen would provide feedback, asked if he knew whether Cohen ever shared these stories with Trump. Pecker said, "I don't recollect that. No." He said not guilty to charges of falsifying business records to cover up salacious sex stories about him during the 2016 campaign. At court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. And I'm Rita Foley, AP News.