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AP Headline News - May 14 2024 08:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Falle. He says he did it at Donald Trump's direction. Star prosecution witness Michael Cohen returns to the stand today in Donald Trump's Hush Money trial. The AP's Julie Walker is there. Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen telling jurors his boss had him pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016 to stay quiet about a sexual encounter, which Trump denies. Cohen testifying Trump told him it would be a total disaster for the campaign if the story got out and that Trump wasn't thinking about his wife Melania but the election. Jurors were shown that payment from Cohen who took out a loan to do it and then Trump's repayment, which prosecutors say was labeled legal expenses to cover up the Hush Money deal. From challenging that after court, at criminal court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. They're expecting more bad weather in the southeast today. There could be severe thunderstorms across parts of Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, damaging winds, hail and tornadoes possible. Surprise visit to Ukraine. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkett appeared in Kyiv this morning where he's assuring President Zelensky of U.S. support. The United States is and will remain a committed partner. We've traveled a long road together these past couple of years and we've seen the extraordinary courage of the Ukrainian people and we know that that courage endures and that only reinforces our determination to do everything we can to help ensure your success. He said American military aid will make a real difference on the battlefield. Russia's President Putin will be in China this week. Kaitlin Clark begins her WNBA career at Connecticut tonight. She says she just wants to enjoy it. This is AP News. Violence and natural disasters pushed a record number of people out of the areas they lived in last year, says a new report. The AP's Charles de Litesma has this. A top migration monitoring group says conflicts and natural disasters had left nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year. A new record, violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East together drove two-thirds of the new movement. The internal displacement monitoring center study finds the number of internally displaced people, had jumped by 50 percent over the past five years. The displacement of more than nine million people in Sudan at the end of 2023 was a record for a single country. The group reported a total of 3.4 million movements within Gaza in the last quarter of 2023, as many people moved more than once. I'm Charles de Litesma. AP News.