Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 19 2024 16:00 (EDT)
AP News for this Sunday, May 19th, I'm Jackie Quinn, a helicopter carrying Iran's President Abraham Riesi, along with other officials, has apparently crashed in a mountainous region of Iran. There's a massive rescue operation underway, more from our John Gambrell. Iranian state television has just aired hours of people praying at shrines across the country, showing how seriously they take this incident. President Biden today addressed new graduates at the all-male, historically black, more house college in Atlanta, where he spoke of still fighting for equal rights. "Black matter being killed on the street, we bear witness for me that means to call out the poison of white supremacy, through doubt systemic racism." The President also noted the discord on college campuses over the Israel Hamas war. "This is one of the hardest, most complicated problems in the world, and there's nothing easy about it. I know an anger that frustates many of you, including my family, but most of all, I know it breaks your heart, breaks mine as well." For the first time, a black American astronaut has blasted into space from a site in Texas. It was a tourist flight on a Jeff Bezos blue origin rocket. Nine-year-old Ed Dwight was championed by then-President Kennedy, but he never went on a space mission until this private flight. In Ukraine, another attack in Kharkiv, our Karen Thomas reports, at least 10 people were killed. "Residence, Marina, in Atova, told the AP." "Everything fell on us immediately. We lay watching TV, all the windows, everything fluids us at once." The misery and power outages continue in the Houston area after last week's storms. "You need access to ice, food, and water." A new family-friendly movie, If, tops the box office this weekend. This is AP News. Entertainment News. I'm Haya Punjwani with an entertainment update. Paul McCartney is a billionaire beetle. The annual Sunday Times Richless says McCartney is the first British musician to be worth 1 billion pounds, or 1.27 billion dollars. That's due to McCartney's 2023 got back to her, the rising value of his back catalog, and Beyonce's cover of the Beatles, Blackbird. Much attention has been paid to the 120 million dollars of his own fortune that Francis Ford Coppola put up to make the futuristic epic, Megalopolis. At the Cannes Film Festival, Coppola said he didn't care about money and never did. "When I die, I'm going to say I got to do this, and I got to see my daughter win an Oscar, and I got to make wine, and I got to make every movie I wanted to make. And I got, and I'm going to be so busy thinking of all the things that I got to do that when I die, I will notice it." "I'm Haya Punjwani." And I'm Jackie Quinn, AP News. [BLANK_AUDIO]