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AP Headline News - Apr 29 2024 18:00 (EDT)
Ify News, I'm Ben Thomas, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's back in the Middle East, pushing for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War, Sakamagani has a report. In Saudi Arabia, Blinken said Gaza's humanitarian situation is a catastrophe, and the best way to ease it is to reach an elusive deal to stop the fighting. Hamas has before the proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of Israel. He hopes Hamas makes the right call. They have to decide, and they have to decide quickly. Even without a deal, Blinken says improving conditions in Gaza is vital, while Israel has allowed more aid in. Please not enough. And he'll use this trip, his seventh to the region since the war started, to press Israeli leaders to boost the flow. Sagar Magani, Washington. Campus protests over the war in Gaza continue across the country. More arrests made at the University of Texas, while protesters at Columbia University in New York ignored an ultimatum for students to leave their encampment or face suspension. A federal appeals court has ruled West Virginia and North Carolina's refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory. Multiple law enforcement officers were shot in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Charlotte-McLenburg Police Department sat in a social media post, officers from several agencies in the U.S. Marshall's Task Force, were carrying out an investigation in a suburban neighborhood when a subject began firing at them. Multiple victims were taken to the hospital, and gunfire continued at the scene for several minutes. But authorities were not able to identify how many people were shot. Many roads in the area were closed so ambulances could get to the hospitals faster. I'm Haya Pangewani. Police said a SWAT team found one suspect dead inside the home while two others were being questioned. New images today from NASA's Webb Space Telescope, the sharpest jet of the Horsehead Nebula. This is AP News. Cess Sutil has the AP Markets Report. Stocks edged higher as Wall Street prepares for a week of potentially market-moving news. The S&P 500 rose 3/10 percent. The benchmark index is coming off its best week since November. The Dow rose 146 points, that's about 4/10 percent. The NASDAQ composite added 3/10 percent. Amazon and Apple will report their latest results this week, along with roughly a third of the companies in the S&P 500. The Federal Reserve will also announce its latest decision on interest rates on Wednesday, widely expected to leave interest rates alone for now. The US government's monthly job support will come out on Friday. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 4.61 percent. Cess Sutil, New York. In the winter of last month's $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot has come forward, Charlie Safan of Portland, Oregon, an immigrant from Laos and battling cancer. I don't want to die unless I have something for my family first. I'm Ben Thomas. AP News.