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AP Headline News - Apr 25 2024 05:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Folley. Donald Trump's hush money trial resumes in New York this morning. In Washington, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a separate case involving Donald Trump. Should he be immune from prosecution for actions he took during his time as president? AP Supreme Court writer Mark Sherman. The Court will hear an argument in the case about whether Trump is himself immune from prosecution and a decision in that case could come by late June, although the special counsel Jack Smith has asked the court to decide that case on a much faster time frame, which might allow a trial to be held before the November election if indeed the court finds that Trump is not immune from prosecution. Meanwhile, in Arizona, grand jury is indicting some people in an election interference case related to the 2020 presidential vote. News indicted include former president Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, lawyer Rudy Giuliani and 16 others. Now to those protests against the Israel Hamas war on college campuses here in the US. A student named Ari says she's been at the encampment at Columbia University in New York, though she doesn't attend that school. Columbia University sets a precedent for many universities across the country and across the globe and the more successful we are here, the more successful we open the gates for other students and so that's why I traveled to be here, is to stand in solidarity with the students at Columbia. A Hamas official tells the AP that it would agree to a truce with Israel and become a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established, but it's unlikely Israel would consider that a new UN report says the number of people suffering from acute hunger is nearly 282 million there in 59 countries. The UN Secretary General says in a world of plenty, children are starving to death. This is AP News. Now to the sidewalk in Chicago. No, really. The AP said Donahue. A Chicago sidewalk landmark, some locals affectionately call the rat hole is gone. A portion of sidewalk in Chicago's north side neighborhood of Roscoe Village has buried an imprint of a rat. It was discovered by a bigger audience when a Chicago comedian shared a photo of it on social media. City officials say the concrete around the rat is damaged and had to be replaced. A lot of work was done across the street from Georgina Ulrich's home. Some neighbors complained about the visitors, some left coins and other items across the sidewalk. The square is now in storage. It's not clear where it will end up, and some neighbors think the imprint was caused by a squirrel. I'm Ed Donahue, and I'm Rita Foley, AP News.