Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Apr 26 2024 12:00 (EDT)
AP News. I'm Ed Donahue. It's another sign the Federal Reserve will be in no hurry to cut interest rates. Inflation remains high. Here's the AP's Rita Foley. Prices rose 0.3 percent from February to March. The same as in the previous month, says the government. Compared to a year earlier, prices were up 2.7 percent in March. Why? Well, more expensive gas and higher prices for restaurant meals, health care, auto repairs, and insurance, among other things. There is some good news. Grocery prices were unchanged last month and are up only one and a half percent from a year earlier. But listen to this. Prices for food, rent, gas, and other necessities are still about 20 to 30 percent higher than they were four years ago in the pandemic year of 2020. Average pay has also risen since then, but many Americans feel they earned those larger paychecks, only to have the higher prices undercut the gain. I'm Rita Foley. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote to House Speaker Mike Johnson saying the U.S. determined an Israeli military unit committed gross human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza started. But it will hold off any decision about aid to the battalion while reviewing new information from Israel. As pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue across the country, Jewish voices are being heard too, like Eli at Harvard University. Anybody who supported the October 7th Hamas attack sort of needs to rethink their decisions and sort of come back to together a collective humanity. The University of Southern California canceled its main stage graduation. It already canceled a commencement speech by the school's pro-Palestinian valedictorian. Defense lawyers and Donald Trump's Hush Money trial in New York are digging into assertions of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts to protect Trump from negative stories during the 2016 campaign. This is AP News. As the second of two Colorado paramedics convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClainer sentenced, Ben Thomas reports the AP found giving sedatives to people detained by police has been spreading paramedics giving sedatives to people detained by police. One of the triggers, excited delirium purportedly involves symptoms such as superhuman strength and high pain tolerance. It's often used to explain sudden deaths, but it's based on questionable science and has been disproportionately assigned to black people. Claire Zagorski is a paramedic. EMS, if they aren't careful, can simply become an extension of the police's handcuffs, said it's have been mentioned as a cause or contributing factor in a dozen official death rulings. But authorities often didn't even investigate whether injections were appropriate in the 94 deaths the AP identified. I'm Ben Thomas. I'm Adana Hugh, AP News. When everyone is on the same page, getting things done is easy. Make a bigger impact at work with Grammerly. Grammerly 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 Grammerly users that say it helps them craft more impactful writing. Sign up and download Grammerly for free at gremmerly.com/podcast. That's gremmerly.com/podcast. Easier said, done.