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AP Headline News - May 21 2024 09:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Folle way. Donald Trump's hush money trial resumes this morning, and it may be over soon. The AP's Julie Walker is at the courthouse in New York. The prosecution already rested once the defense rests its case. The judge says he plans on sending the jury home until closing arguments the day after Memorial Day. If the defense rests today as expected, that'll mean the jury will be away from the trial for a full week. Trump's lawyer advised the judge that the defense isn't planning on calling any other witnesses after Robert Costello, though they may still call a campaign finance expert for limited testimony. And they haven't definitely said Trump won't testify, but that's the clearest indication yet that he'll waive his right to take the stand in his own defense. He's pled not guilty to charges of falsifying business records to cover hush money payments. For the criminal court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. Trouble for a flight from London to Singapore this morning. The AP's Karen Shumhas. Singapore Airlines has said a person has died and others were injured aboard a London Singapore flight when it encountered severe turbulence. The airline announced on its Facebook page that Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from Heathrow was diverted to Bangkok. Police said the aircraft was a Boeing 777-300ER with a total of 211 passengers and 18 crew on board. Local emergency crews were on site to transfer injured people off the runway for treatment. I'm Karen Shumhas. Police broke up a pro-Palestinian encampment this morning at the University of Michigan just days after demonstrators showed up at the home of a school official and put fake body bags on her lawn. Mooners are gathering in Iran for days of funerals and processions for Iran's president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash. This is AP News. A man in Missouri convicted of murder says he didn't do it. Now they'll be a hearing. Christopher Dunn has spent 33 years behind bars for murder, but he says he's innocent. Now prosecutors in St. Louis are convinced that Dunn is telling the truth, but lawyers for the Missouri Attorney General's office disagreed and want to keep Dunn in prison. Dunn was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1990 death of a 15-year-old boy. A 12 and 14-year-old say they witnessed the shooting, but they later recanted saying they were coerced by police and prosecutors. No physical evidence linked Dunn to the crime. But in evidentiary hearing in 2020, a judge agreed that a jury would likely find Dunn not guilty, but the judge refused to exonerate Dunn, citing a 2016 Missouri Supreme Court ruling that only death row inmates could make a "free-standing" claim of actual innocence. I'm Donna Warder and I'm Rita Foley, AP News.