Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 20 2024 05:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Falle. Iran's president, Ibrahim Raisi, has been found dead in a helicopter crash in Iran. The country's foreign minister and several other officials were killed in that crash too, according to reports. Word is that the chopper went down in a foggy mountainous area of Iran. The AP's done a water. Rescuers found the helicopter that was carrying Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi, the country's foreign minister and other officials that apparently crashed in mountains in northwest Iran. The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society says rescuers saw the helicopter from a distance of one and a quarter miles and saw no signs of life. Footage released by the Islamic Republic news agency shows what the agency describes as the crash site across a steep valley in a green mountain range. The AP's John Gambrell is overseas. Raisi is a hardliner who was elected in 2021. He's known as a protégé of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei and has been discussed as a future supreme leader himself. Raisi, while he doesn't have the final say on state matters, has continued Iran's hard line rhetoric towards the west. We're just in now that Iran's supreme leader has just appointed the first vice president Mohammed Mokbar as the acting president. And Israeli airstrike has killed 27 people in central Gaza, mostly said to be women and children. President Biden said during a commencement address Sunday at historically Black Morehouse College in Atlanta that he has heard the students' voices of protest and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza break his heart, too. I'm working to make sure we finally get a two-state solution, the only solution for two people living peace, security and dignity. Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen returns to the witness stand today in Donald Trump's hush money trial, the ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge is scheduled to be refloted today. This is AP News. Sean Diddy Combs says he's truly sorry and what he did was inexcusable. Diddy admits to beating his ex-girlfriend Cassie, says he's sorry and calls his actions inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my ashes in that video. Disgusted. That's Sean Diddy Combs, making a video statement on his Instagram, admitting that he beat his ex-girlfriend Cassie in a hotel hallway in 2016. A video of the hotel incident released by CNN on Friday shows Combs wearing only a white towel, punching and kicking Cassie, an R&B singer who was this protege and longtime girlfriend at the time. The footage also shows Combs shoving and dragging Cassie and throwing a vase in her direction. Cassie sued Combs in November over what she said was years of sexual, physical and emotional abuse. The suit was settled the next day, but spurred intense scrutiny of Combs. I'm Haya Panjwani and I'm Rita Foley, AP News. Are you listening to this podcast while working out? Maybe you're too busy to work out, so you're listening on the go, but you want to be in better shape. In either case, getting in shape, losing weight or just being healthier requires giving your body the essential protein and other nutrients it needs. That's not always easy. At first form, we get it. It's a struggle to eat right. That's why we've spent years developing the highest quality nutritional supplements possible. Being in shape or being healthier starts with you wanting to and then letting us help you. Does first form have the best tasting protein powders and bars on the planet? How about the most convenient daily nutritional packet to give you what you need every single day? What about the best tasting and most complete green powders in the world? We think so. Get started today at firstform.com/healthy to get free shipping on most orders and a 110% money bank guarantee if you don't love your first form products. That's the number one STPHORM.com/healthy. Mediterranean flavors and California cuisine unite in Kismet, a new cookbook from the women's chef owners behind Kismet in Los Angeles. It's filled with more than 100 recipes featuring boldly flavored, vegetable forward cooking that captures the casual, colorful, super fresh food the award winning restaurant is known for. Their new cookbook features dishes that can be served any night of the week or made to celebrate special occasions. Kismet is available wherever books are sold.