Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Apr 24 2024 22:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas. In Arizona, grand juries indicted 18 people, including Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani for alleged conspiracy fraud and forgery related to the 2020 election. Lisa Dwyer reports Arizona's the fourth state to bring charges against fake electors. 11 Republicans submitted a document to Congress, falsely declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election in August Donald Trump was indicted in federal court over the scheme. And Eric Tucker reports the Supreme Court set to hear arguments over Trump's case. The Supreme Court has poised to decide the legally untested question of whether a former president is immune from criminal prosecution. But there's another case involving a president's immunity from civil litigation that we're going to be hearing a lot about during arguments. Any other former president by the name of Richard Nixon, there was a lawsuit many years ago when Nixon was president, brought by someone who worked for the Air Force and was subsequently fired. He challenged that termination in court suing Nixon, Nixon said, "You can't sue me. I'm president." And in fact, the Supreme Court wound up agreeing that a former president cannot be sued for acts taken while in office. Trump's team says that holding carries over into this context and it means that a former president cannot be prosecuted for official acts. Jack Smith's team, however, says that's nonsense and there is no such thing as criminal immunity for a former president. In other news, the Supreme Court's considering arguments over Idaho's abortion ban. Arizona lawmakers are moving to repeal their states. Police tangled with student demonstrators at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Southern California as pro-Palestinian protests spread on college campuses. Russia vetoed a UN resolution aimed at preventing a nuclear arms race in space and Ukraine's begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the U.S. to hit Russian targets. This is AP News. A Chicago sidewalk landmark, some locals have affectionately called the rat hole, is gone. It donny-hoo has this story. A portion of sidewalk in Chicago's Northside 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. Oh my gosh, all this for a rat imprint. 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. Thank you, Ed. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News. Thank you for listening. When everyone is on the same page, getting things done is easy. Make a bigger impact at work with Grammarly. Grammarly is your secure AI writing partner that enables your team to make their point and move faster. You can even save time by going from spending hours editing drafts to just seconds. Join the 96% of Grammarly users that say it helps them craft more impactful writing. Sign up and download Grammarly for free at gremmerly.com/podcast. That's gremmerly.com/podcast. Easier said.