Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 06 2024 15:00 (EDT)
AP News! I'm Ed Donichy, an official familiar with the Israeli thinking tells the AP officials in Israel are examining a proposed ceasefire by Egypt and Gutter. But the plan approved by Hamas is not the framework Israel proposed. At the White House, national security spokesman John Kirby says they don't want to jump to any conclusions. "It would be great. I'm sure we'd all like to have an answer as soon as possible, but I just don't want to get ahead of that process." Hamas's acceptance comes as Israel appears, ready to launch an invasion into Rafa and Gaza. People were told to evacuate. Stefan Ducharik is with the UN. "They are being instructed to relocate to al-Mazawi, which is already overcrowded and lacking safety and essential humanitarian services. A massive evacuation on this scale is impossible to carry out safely." Columbia University in New York canceled its large university-wide commencement ceremony because of pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. Severe weather is possible in parts of the plains, especially Oklahoma and Kansas. Rick Smith is at the National Weather Service. "If a warning is issued for you, treat it seriously, because every storm that forms will have the potential to produce a tornado. And tornadoes can be exceptionally dangerous and possibly even long-track tornadoes today." Sulfur and Holdenville, Oklahoma, are still recovering from a tornado that killed four and left thousands without power last week. The prosecution and former President Donald Trump's Hush Money trial in New York called to the stand Deborah Terasoff, an accounts payable supervisor at the Trump Organization. She prepared the checks used to pay former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. Russia is threatening to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine. Late in the day on Wall Street, stocks are higher. This is AP News. WNBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist Brittany Griner is trying to settle into a normal routine after release from a Russian prison. "Griner was detained at a Moscow airport in February 2022 after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis. In an AP interview, she says that she's been seeing a therapist since her release 17 months ago." Griner has also been an advocate for the return of other Americans detained overseas. I'm Haya Punjwani. Brittany Griner shares details of the experience in her book Coming Home That Will Be Released Tomorrow. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News. The new SuperBeats hard-choose advanced is now supercharged with CoQ10. Support your healthy CoQ10 levels and blood pressure with two choos a day. Visit RadioBeatsBETS.com and save 15% with promo code DEAL.