Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 17 2024 05:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Folley. Brutal thunderstorms in southeast Texas, Houston's Mayor John Whitmire says at least four people are dead. We had a storm with 100 miles per hour winds, the equivalent of Hurricane Ike, considerable damage downtown. He was heard there on KTRK-TV in Houston. The storms in southeast Texas knocked down trees, cut off the power for hundreds of thousands of people, and flights at Houston's two major airports had to be grounded briefly yesterday. For the first time, trucks carrying badly-needed aid for the Gaza Strip have rolled into the region across a newly built U.S. floating pier. Meanwhile this morning, Yemen's Houthi rebels say they have shot down an American drone. The U.S. military did not immediately acknowledge the incident. Days a day off for Donald Trump's hush money trial, the AP's Julie Walker is covering the trial in New York. Donald Trump is back in Florida for his youngest son, Barron's High School graduation in West Palm Beach, then heads to Minnesota for a fundraising event at night. The prosecution star witness, Michael Cohen, who was once Trump's lawyer and fixer, is back on the witness stand Monday as the case winds down. He had a fiery exchange with Trump's attorneys yesterday as they tried to undercut his testimony about a payment to Stormy Daniels, who says she had a sexual encounter with Trump something he denies. At Criminal Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. There will be a funeral today for a Black U.S. Air Force senior, Airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home by a sheriff's deputy. When Roger Fortson responded to the deputies knocking on his door, he was holding a handgun pointed at the ground. The Fortson family says the deputy was at the wrong address. House is down to 360 a gallon this morning, 4 cents less than a week ago, says the AAA. This is AP News. There's been another discovery from the Webb Space Telescope. The AP's Ben Thomas has this. The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. Scientists reporting in monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society say the two consolidated just 740 million years after the universe forming Big Bang. One black hole is more than 50 million times more massive than our Sun. The other is thought to be similar in size, but it's buried in dense gas, which makes it harder to measure. Until now, astronomers weren't sure how supermassive black holes got so big. The latest findings suggest mergers are how black holes can grow so rapidly, even at cosmic dawn. I'm Ben Thomas. McDonald's will roll out a $5 meal deal next month, for a month, fries a drink, a sandwich and chicken nuggets. It's to help with slowing sales. I'm Rita Foley AP News. 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. [MUSIC PLAYING]