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AP Headline News - May 20 2024 16:00 (EDT)
AP News. I'm Ed Donopean. The prosecution is rested in former President Donald Trump's Hush Money trial. The AP's Julie Walker reports Trump's former lawyer and fixer wrapped up a fourth day of testimony. Trump not appearing to react as Michael Cohen left the witness stand. The defense then called its first witness, a paralegal who works in Trump lawyer Todd Blanche's office. Trump's attorneys had said they also planned to call a campaign finance expert and a lawyer who offered to represent Cohen after the FBI raided his property in 2018. The prosecution's last witness was also its most important. The defense attacking Cohen's motives and credibility in an effort to convince jurors he can't be believed. The charges stem from a Hush Money payment to Stormy Daniels. Trump has denied having sex with Daniels and says he did nothing illegal. At Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. The White House national security spokesman John Kirby says nothing has changed in the relationship between Iran and the US after the death of Iran's president. We don't anticipate any change in Iranian behavior. And therefore the Iranian should not expect any change in American behavior when it comes to holding them accountable. Iranian President Abraham Raisi and the country's foreign minister were found dead after their helicopter crashed. Iran has offered no cause for that crash. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin committed to keeping US weapons moving to Ukraine. Putin is trying to wage a 19th century war of imperial aggression in the world of 2024. That's a terrible idea and a terrible strategy. Ivan Boesky, the flamboyant stock trader whose cooperation with the government cracked one of the largest insider trading scandals in the history of Wall Street has died. He was 87, a bridge near Galveston, Texas that was damaged last week when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat has reopened to traffic after inspectors deemed it safe. This is AP News. You've heard of white noise. Researchers are looking into pink noise. Here's the AP's Haya Punjwani. Scientists at Northwestern University are studying how short pulses of pink noise can enhance the slow brainwaves of deep sleep. But what does it mean when noise has color to it? Sound is made up of waves, much like light, and we know a lot about light colors. That's Dr. Ronyl Mulcani, a neurology professor at Northwestern University. On lower wavelengths of light, we have more red frequency and on higher wavelengths. We have more bluish and violet frequencies. Pink noise pulses have shown promise in improving memory and relaxation response in small studies. If Northwestern's research pans out, it could lead to a medical device to improve sleep or memory through personalized pulses of pink noise, which sounds like this. - I'm Haya Punjuani. - I'm Ed Donohue, AP News.