Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 17 2024 21:00 (EDT)
If he news I'm Ben Thomas the Israeli military says it's troops in Gaza have found the bodies of three Israeli hostages my campin and Israeli military spokesman says the three were killed in the Hamas attack on October 7th while they were at a music festival near the Gaza border Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the deaths heartbreaking and says all Israeli hostages will be returned both the living and the dead trucks have begun rolling across a new floating pier bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza but the US and aid groups warn it's not a substitute for land deliveries the world food programs Matthew Hollingworth we've not been able to access our warehouse in Rafa for more than a week we have very little food and fuel coming through the border crossings in the south and we are always trying hard but failing currently to bring in consistent volumes of food Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow's offensive in Ukraine's northeastern Harkiv region is aimed at creating a buffer zone and there are no plans to capture the city of Harkiv Ukraine's second largest yesterday Ukraine's military claim to a foil Russian efforts to establish a foothold in the border town of both chance in this country official say it could take weeks for power to be restored in some parts of Houston following fierce storms the man who broke into the home of then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and stocks finished another winning week with a milestone says to tell has to close the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 40,000 points for the first time on a mostly quiet day for Wall Street the Dow rose 134 points it's about three tenths of a percent the benchmark S&P 500 which is much more widely followed on Wall Street than the Dow is added one tenth of a percent the S&P posted its fourth weekly gain in a row the NASA composite slipped one tenth of a percent Seth Sutel New York this is AP news hundreds of uniformed service members packed in Atlanta area Church for the funeral of a black Air Force member who was fatally shot by sheriff's deputy in Florida earlier this month Jackie Quinn has the story at a church outside Atlanta mourners filed past the coffin of 23 year-old Roger Fortson Fortson who is black was shot six times in early May by a deputy who wrongly went to Fortson's apartment for a domestic violence call in the Florida Panhandle Reverend Jamal Bryant says someone needs to be held accountable Roger died of murder audio courtesy of WSB it showed all of America that you can wear a uniform and the uniform won't protect you sheriff's official say Fortson was armed when he opened the door and the deputy fired in self-defense I'm Jackie Quinn and I'm Ben Thomas AP news thanks for listening