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AP Headline News - May 13 2024 21:00 (EDT)
8 key news. I'm bent on Trump's one-time lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen took the witness stand at the former president's hush money trial. Julie Walker is covering it. Donald Trump sat at the defense table, mainly keeping his eyes shut as his former lawyer. Now one of the prosecution star witnesses, Michael Cohen, told jurors he would lie for Trump. Cohen said Trump had no email because his old boss said too many people went down that way. Cohen told jurors part of his job was making sure positive stories ran about Trump and negative ones, like a love child and an alleged affair with Playboy model Karen McDougall never ran. The jury was shown written agreements with the national enquirer showing how the stories were bought but never published. And Cohen told jurors Trump was not just aware of it all, but willing to pay for it. Trump led not guilty to charges of falsifying business records to cover hush money payments. At Criminal Court in Manhattan, Julie Walker, New York. Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling food supplies to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited operation in Rafa. The two main crossings near the southern Gaza city have been closed for over a week. Israel has portrayed Rafa as Hamas's last stronghold, with the militants have appeared to regroup in other parts of Gaza. Russian troops are on the offensive in northeastern Ukraine. The governor of the Harki region says only a few hundred residents remain involved at chance near the Russian border. Meantime, a Kremlin shake up. Defense Minister Sergei Shorgu out. It's clear that Putin wanted a point man for this spending. Russian journalist Maxime Trittle-Yubov tells Sky News to move comes as President Vladimir Putin pumps up military spending. This is the tragedy that Russia can afford to do this. And the reveal also for pointing means that Putin is planning for the long haul. In Western Canada, strong winds are fanning an intense wildfire toward Fort Nelson, British Columbia. Emergency crews preparing for a last stand. This is AP News. Indonesia is dealing with both an erupting volcano and floods. Charles Doladezma has details. Mount Ibu, a volcano in Indonesia's northern Maluku province, has erupted, spewing thick grey ash over 16,000 feet into the sky. Safyan, Humuljana, a volcano observer, says, we can see that there's an ejection of material from the peak with the ash now heading towards the west. Officials say more than 13,000 people live within a three-mile radius of the northern side of the crater. Meanwhile, rescuers who recovered more bodies after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia's Samatra Island, leaving more than 40 people dead and over a dozen missing. The heavy rains, along with a landslide of mud and cold lava from Mount Morapi, has caused a river to breach its banks. I'm Charles Doladezma. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News. Thanks for listening. And you need to work quickly and confidently. You need Grammarly. It's a trusted AI writing partner that helps you get work done faster, with better writing. And it works where you work, across 500,000 apps and websites. 96% of users agree. Grammarly helps them craft more impactful writing. Sign up and download for free at Grammarly.com/podcast. That's Grammarly.com/podcast. Grammarly. Easier said, done.