Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 14 2024 22:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas. Congressional aides tell AP the Biden administration sending more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, the first shipment since it put another one on hold earlier this month. Israeli military operations have intensified in both southern and northern Gaza. UN says more than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Ukraine, where President Vladimir Zelensky made a plea for more air defense. For Harky region, because they are the people under attack, civilians and wars, everybody there under Russian missiles. The Trump-Hushmani trial has Wednesday off, but Michael Cohen returns to the witness stand Thursday, Julie Walker on testimony so far. Donald Trump's defense attorneys grilling the prosecution's star witness Tuesday in his Hushmani trial portraying former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen as a media-obsessed lawyer who's determined to see the former president behind bars. Cohen enduring intense questioning by Trump's legal team after providing pivotal testimony, tying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee directly to the Hushmani scheme at the heart of the case. At Criminal Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. In the meantime, Sagar McGani reports that Judge has denied Hunter Biden's bid to delay his trial on federal gun charges. The president's son wanted the trial to start in September, with his lawyers arguing they need the time to line up witnesses and review evidence. But the judge in Delaware set a June 3rd trial date, saying she believes everyone can get done what needs to be done by then. It would be the first of two trials the younger Biden faces next month, along with a tax case in California. Sagar McGani, Washington. The Florida Highway Patrol, arrested the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a bus carrying farm workers killing eight on charges of DUI manslaughter. This is AP News. Siding free speech rights, eight TikTok content creators are suing the government over the new federal law that could ban the social media platform. And Google's rolling out its retooled search engine that favors responses crafted by artificial intelligence. This is why our heads to tails, the shift promises to quicken the quest for information, while also potentially disrupting the flow of money making internet traffic. Website publishers could be heard if the AI overviews are so informative that they result in fewer clicks on the website links. They will still appear but lower on the results page. The makeover begins this week in the US as users start to see conversational summaries generated by the company's AI technology. Google expects the reoccurring AI overviews to be part of its search engine results for about one billion people by the end of 2024. I'm Lisa Dwyer and I'm Ben Thomas, AP News. Thanks for listening. When 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. But 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 gremmerly.com/podcast. That's gremmerly.com/podcast. Grammarly. Easier said.