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AP Headline News - May 06 2024 16:00 (EDT)
A.P. News, I'm Adoniki. Israeli leaders say a military operation in Toronto has been approved and Israeli forces are now striking targets there. President Biden spoke earlier with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Also, Hamas says it has approved a ceasefire deal, brokered by Egypt and gutter. National security spokesman John Kirby says he doesn't want to speculate. Whatever's in this thing, hopefully it can lead to those hostages getting out real real soon with their families, where they need to be. And as each day passes, their lives get further at risk. So time is really of the essence here. Netanyahu's office says the proposal was far from Israel's essential demands but that it would nonetheless send negotiators to continue talks on a ceasefire agreement. Two U.S. officials tell the A.P. an American soldier has been arrested in Russia and accused of stealing the soldier, who was not being identified, was stationed in South Korea and was in the process of returning home to the U.S. Instead, he traveled to Russia and was arrested in Vladivostok. ProPublica is one of a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the Supreme Court. It revealed how billionaires wooed justices with gifts and travel, prompting the court to adopt its first code of conduct. The A.P. won a Pulitzer Prize in the feature photography category for coverage of migrants making their journey to the U.S. through Latin America. Severe weather is possible in parts of Oklahoma and Kansas in the Houston area in Texas. Earlier heavy rains have left high water. Harris County executive Lena Hidalgo says crews have been busy. As far as rescues in total, as of this morning, 233 people have been rescued and 186 pets. The rescues have really slowed a new lawsuit by 95 men and women alleges decades of child sex abuse at Illinois Juvenile Detention Center statewide. This is AP news. Floods in Brazil have killed at least 75 people, more than 100 are missing. Floods in Brazil have killed scores of people with over 100 more people missing massive floods in Brazil, southern Rio Grande or Seoul state have also forced more than 88,000 people from their homes. Rescue workers travelled by helicopter to transport those stranded by the floods to safety. After visiting the submerged city of Puerto Allegria by helicopter for a second time, Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula de Silva told reporters he brought along other politicians this time so they could see the extent of the situation. The floods have left a wake of devastation, including landslides washed out roads and collapsed bridges across the state. I'm Karen Shamas. Kentucky Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams, who worked to expand early voting, has received the John F. Kennedy Profile Encourage Award. I'm Ed Donahue, AP news.