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AP Headline News - May 21 2024 17:00 (EDT)
AP News, Anandana here, the defense is resting in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial. Jury deliberations could start next week. The AP's Julie Walker is in New York. Veteran New York defense attorney Arthur Idala, whose clients include Harvey Weinstein, says closing arguments for both sides will hinge on Michael Cohen's testimony. The prosecutor has to find every single way to corroborate the 10 percent of Cohen's testimony that they need and says the defense will ask the jury if they trust Cohen because if you hesitate for one second to answer that question, that's a reasonable doubt and you have to find my client not guilty. The jury has 34 counts to go through when deciding Trump's fate. I think that the jury is not going to be able to come to a unanimous verdict. But if they do, I don't think it will be across the whole board. I could see a compromise kind of verdict. At Criminal Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. During remotely, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani pleaded not guilty to charges related to attempts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 presidential defeat in Arizona. I look at citizens if I've been a complete embarrassment to the American legal system. But I've shown no tendency not to comply. I show up for every court appearance. Giuliani's trial is expected to start in October. Tornado warnings erupt in eastern Nebraska and parts of southwestern Iowa. Meantime, the cleanup continues from severe weather in Houston. Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo says a lot of schools are damaged. Sinclair Elementary, my goodness, is the hardest hit of HSD. 45 trees down, trees on the mobile schools, a tree down the gym, and that's not unique. In an attempt to lower gas prices, the Biden administration plans to release one million barrels of gasoline from a northeast reserve. The United Nations says it has suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafa due to a lack of supplies and insecurity. Wall Street at the close, the Dow finished up 66 points. This is AP news. Small town hospitals are finding it hard to survive. The closed doors at Martin General Hospital in Williamson, North Carolina, worry some of the county's 22,000 residents. Our people are dying, they're suffering. That's Verna Perry. Forum Health shut down Martin County's 43-bed hospital, citing financial challenges related to declining population, George Pink with Shep Center for Health Services Research says, "That's a trend for rural parts of the country." "The high rates of uninsured, high rates of underinsured, they tend to be older, sicker and poorer people." The county, which still owns the hospital and land, is consulting with state and federal health officials to determine whether the facility can reopen as a rural emergency hospital. President and activist Linda Gibson is hopeful. "It might not be tomorrow, it may not be next month, it may not be this year, but I believe in my heart. Things are going to work out." I'm Hap Njwani. I'm Hap Njwani.