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AP Headline News - May 14 2024 15:00 (EDT)
[MUSIC] Hey, Pea News. I'm Pam Joani. Michael Cohen says Donald Trump talked reimbursement with him at the White House. AP correspondent Julie Walker reports from the Manhattan courthouse. Trump's sitting back in his chair at times leaning over the side as Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer, testifies about the checks he received. As supposed, reimbursement for hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. At one point, Trump leaned over and whispered to his lawyer, Cohen testifying about being in the White House with Trump in 2017 and talking about that reimbursement. Cohen telling jurors Trump asked me if I needed money and I said all good because I can get a check. Under Cohen's reimbursement arrangement, he was paid a series of checks totaling $420,000. Trump denies charges he falsified business records to cover hush money payments. All right, criminal court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. >> A study using tree rings show that last year's Northern Summer was the warmest since the first year in history. In an AP interview, climate scientist Max Torbenson, who co-wrote the study, elaborates on the study's findings. >> There were hot years in the past, for sure, but none of them are, let's say, that's extreme, and you'd have to go back to the closest thing we find in the past 2000 years prior to 1900. It's actually in the 240s AD. >> Eight people are dead and at least 40 are injured after a farm workers bus overturned in Central Florida around Marion County. Florida highway patrol spokesman, Lieutenant Pat Riordian, spoke at a news conference today. >> The school bus traveled off the roadway onto the grass shoulder, where it went through a fence, struck a tree and overturned. >> This is AP News. There's yet another investigation into automated driving systems. >> The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into crashes involving Waymo's self-driving systems. Waymo was once Google's self-driving vehicle unit. The government agency says on its website that it's received 22 reports of Waymo vehicles either crashing or doing something that may have violated traffic laws when the automated driving system was engaged. And it says it's opened at least four investigations of vehicles in the past month. Seventeen of those incidents were crashes, but no injuries were reported. Waymo vehicles were reported to have hit stationary objects such as gates, chains, or parked vehicles, and that incident occurred shortly after the Waymo driving system behaved unexpectedly near traffic control devices. All companies with self-driving or partially self-driving vehicles are required to report all crashes to the federal government. Donna Water, Washington. >> I'm Haya Pangewani, AP News.