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AP Headline News - May 17 2024 22:00 (EDT)
If you're new for Friday May 17, I'm Ben Thomas. At a campaign event in Minneapolis, former President Trump says he's doing well in Minnesota. Did you see two polls came out, one had me one point behind, one had me two points up, and another one's coming out tomorrow, and the word is that I'm two points up. I don't know if that's good or bad. How are you two points up to Biden? He can't talk, he can't walk, can't find his way off the stage, can't put two sentences together, although he has agreed to debate, so I don't know, maybe they know. That was something. Earlier Friday, President Biden took his own shot at Trump at an event marking the 70th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education ruling that desegregated schools. My predecessor and extreme MAGA friends are responsible for taking away other fundamental freedoms, from the freedom to vote, to the freedom to choose, but I've always believed that the promise of America is big enough for everyone to succeed, and I mean that. Everyone is succeed. That's what Brown is all about. The Israeli military says its troops in Gaza have found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed in Hamas' October 7th attack. We were Admiral Daniel Hagari. Shaniluk, Amit Buskeler, and it's Hag Lorentere, were murdered by Hamas while escaping the Nova Music Festival on October 7th, and the bodies were taken into Gaza. If a choir reports, aid trucks have started rolling across a new pier into Gaza. The shipment is the first in an operation that the American military officials anticipate could scale up to 150 truckloads a day. The US and aid groups warn that the floating pier project is not a substitute for land deliveries. They could bring in all the food, water, and fuel needed in Gaza. Before the war, more than 500 truckloads entered the territory on an average day. I'm Lisa Dwyer. A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attacking the husband of then-house speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer. This is AP News. Catch the elephants back with a new album, Neon Pill, and Haya Panjwani reports they've been through some things. Lead singer Matt Schultz was arrested for criminal possession of firearms, learned he'd been having a drug-induced psychosis, and lost his father. In 2013, Schultz said that being together with the band at all times causes a band's writing process to become stagnant. "For the past six years we've been touring, and so when you're living on top of each other, there's always this general awareness of where the band's moving, the direction. And so, you know, you start riding in that direction." After his two-month hospitalization and six months of outpatient therapy, Schultz sat down to untangle his music. Neon Pill sees the band reunited with producer John Hill, who worked with them on their Grammy-winning social cues. I'm Haya Panjwani. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News. Thank you for listening.