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AP Headline News - May 21 2024 22:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas. Violence storms have been crashing through the central U.S. producing multiple tornadoes. In Iowa, one hit Greenfield, a town of about 2,000 southwest of Des Moines. Donald Trump's lawyers have rested their case in his hush money trial after calling just two witnesses, not Trump. Closing arguments expected next Tuesday, Julie Walker has more. Veteran New York Defense Attorney Arthur I. Dalla, whose clients include Harvey Weinstein, as closing arguments for both sides in Donald Trump's hush money case will hinge on Michael Cohen's testimony. The prosecutor has to find every single way to corroborate the 10% 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. I think that the jury's 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. Rudy Giuliani's pleaded not guilty to felony charges in Arizona's election interference case. The UN's suspended food distribution in the Southern Gods, a city of Rafa due to lack of supplies and insecurity. Days of funerals underway for Iran's president and others killed in a helicopter crash this week. The scandal in the UK over infected blood will now see victims compensated. The report found civil servants and doctors exposed patients by giving them blood transfusion or blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis from the 1970s to the early 1990s. In an interview with Sky News, Hannah Lister, whose father was infected with hepatitis C, says people are still not getting the recognition that they deserve. You know, parents, we've lost children, children, we've lost parents, there's still no recognition of these people and it's not good enough. I'm Lisa DeWyer. This is AP News. Dozens of passengers injured and one man died on a terrible flight Tuesday. If he corresponded, Norman Hall has a closer look. The death of a British man and injuries impacting dozens of other people aboard a Singapore airline's flight that hit severe turbulence highlights the potential dangers of flying through unstable air. The aircraft flying from London to Singapore rapidly descended 6,000 feet while above the Indian Ocean. Witnesses say crew members tumbled, passengers had struck the overhead baggage bins. National Science Foundation National Center scientist Larry Kornman. It's not uncommon to have turbulence encounters that cause minor injuries, you know, up to say a broken bone, but fatalities are very, very rare. Norman says turbulence encounters have been increasing possibly because of climate change. His best advice? Keep seat belts fastened. I'm Norman Hall. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News.