Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 09 2024 08:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Folley. The weather's been a real mess in much of the South. Storms with tornadoes and massive hail. Two people were killed in Tennessee and one in North Carolina. Gaston County, North Carolina commission chairman Chad Brown on a state of emergency there. Storm came in to Gaston County, uprooted trees and did a lot to our thoroughfares of trying to get some of our roadways cleared, but also a lot of power lines are down. Torrential rain and tornadoes have been battering areas across the country this week from the nation's midsection to the southeast. President Biden is warning Israel, the AP's Jennifer King. Biden says he will not supply offensive weapons that Israel can use to launch an all-out assault on Rafa in the southern Gaza Strip out of concern for more than the 1 million Palestinian civilians sheltering there. In a Wednesday interview with CNN, Biden says the US is still committed to Israel's defense and will supply Iron Dome rocket interceptors and other defensive arms, but he says that if Israel goes into Rafa, quote, "we're not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells used," unquote. This follows his decision to pause a shipment of heavy bombs to Israel last week, Jennifer King, Washington. The Donald Trump hush money trial is back on today. The AP's Julie Walker is in New York. The defense in Donald Trump's hush money trial will continue its cross-examination of Stormy Daniels, who previously told jurors in sometimes graphic detail about a sexual encounter she says they had in 2006, which Trump denies. Jurors appeared riveted by her testimony. Daniels, going into salacious details, despite repeated objections by defense attorneys, Julie Walker, New York. Federal investigators say they have safety concerns about a Ford SUV recall repair that doesn't fix gasoline leaks that can cause engine fires. This involves some late-model escapes and Bronco sports. We're waiting for word from Ford. This is AP News. Now to President Biden's trip to a battleground state, the AP's Sagar Magane. President Biden is hailing new economic investments on the very spot where a Trump administration promise failed to materialize. In battleground, Wisconsin, the president noted Microsoft will build a new data center in the state's southeast, saying Donald Trump came to the same place, and promised a $10 billion investment by electronics giant Foxconn. Promising the building, eighth wonder of the world. The project failed, and the president says it wasted hundreds of millions of dollars and destroyed 100 homes in the process. Foxconn turned out to be just that, a con. Calling it another in a series of Trump's broken promises. On my watch, we make promises, and we keep promising. Sagar Magane, Washington. I'm Rita Folle, APN, an official message from Medicare. A new law is helping me save more money on prescription drug costs. Maybe you can save too. With Medicare's extra help program, my premium is zero, and my out-of-pocket costs are low. Who should apply? Single people making less than $23,000 a year, or married couples who make less than $31,000 a year. Even if you don't think you qualify, it pays to find out. Go to ssa.gov/extrahelp. Paid for by the US Department of Health and Human Services. So the quarterly projections are in the red area there, and these numbers, I guess, should be higher. This doesn't make any sense. Wait, you're not even our finance director, who are you? Oh, I'm the delivery driver, anyone over the noodle bowl? We need a receptionist. No, we need Sign-In App. From managing visitors to risk reduction and office scheduling, trust Sign-In App for your confident workplace, cloud-secure with App Convenience. Sign-In App keeps your office and business on track. Start for free at signinapp.com. Summer is meant to be easy, it's meant to be savored. So don't spend your summer morning waiting in line for ice coffee. Satisfy your ice coffee craving in your own kitchen with Nespresso. Create consistently delicious ice coffee that's never watered down at the touch of a button. The summer craft your own double espresso over ice or brew a smooth 12-ounce cold brew style coffee over ice before you even leave home. Be your own barista, making exceptional ice coffee at home with Nespresso. Meant to be ice, meant to be simple. Visit Nespresso.com. What's next? At Moss Adams, that question inspires us to help people and their businesses strategically define and claim their future. As one of America's leading accounting, consulting, and wealth management firms, our collaborative approach creates solutions for your unique business needs. We leverage industry-focused insights with the collective technical resources of our firm to elevate your performance, uncover opportunity, and move upward at MossAtoms.com.