Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 28 2024 21:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Haya Fungilani. The jury and Donald Trump's Hushmani trial could get started on deliberations as early as tomorrow after closing arguments whipped late into the night tonight. AP correspondent Julie Walker reports. Despite closing arguments stretching into Tuesday night, jurors were equally attentive watching and taking notes as the defense and the prosecution made their very long closing arguments in Donald Trump's Hushmani trial. Trump's leader, Trump, not commenting, but before court saying this. "This is a dark day in America. We have a rigged court case that you'd have never been brought." Trump's lawyer told jurors star witness Michael Cohen is the MVP of liars. Don't believe him. He's out to get the former president who did nothing wrong. But the prosecutor told jurors look at smoking guns, like notes from Trump execs showing he knew the checks were for Hushmani payments. At Criminal Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. Severe weather continues this week. AP correspondent Norman Hall reports on additional storms in Texas. Another round of strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail has pummeled Texas, leaving one person dead and about one million businesses in homes without power. Early season heat is adding to the misery. Around Houston, more than 300,000 customers lost power. The area is still recovering from Hurricane Force winds earlier this month. Voters in Tuesday's runoff elections found dozens of polling places without power. That prompted Dallas County to order polls open two hours later. Weekend storm deaths at the nation's midsection now stand at 24. I, Norman Hall, Harvard graduates walked out on their commencement ceremony after the school announced that 13 students who participated in a protest encampment would not be able to receive their diplomas. Harvard graduate Aloha Nissari says many students took part in the protest. By the time we reached, like, out here on the street, there was hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of students out here. This is AP News. There's a gathering of really good spellers. The Scripps National Spelling Bee is underway near Washington. Last year, Dev Shaw won the bee. P-S-A-M-M-O-P-H-I-L-E, Samaphau. That is correct. Shaw wrote in a Washington Post op-ed to become a champion speller, "The skill of guessing is everything." Shradda Rocham-Ready from California had a much smaller word, only four letters, but it tripped her up. She finished third last year. Rocham-Ready hopes to learn from her mistake last year, devoting part of her studying this year to the sort of words, super short ones she tends to miss. Ariane Kedker finished fifth last year. It breaks down tricky words into categories, memorizing language patterns, saying it's not about knowing as many words as you can. Ed Donahue, Washington. I'm Hannah Punjaby, AP News. You see a family SUV. We see a support system for more than 960 wildlife species. Because when you get the $29 Keep Colorado Wildpass, you help fund wildlife conservation and educational programs across the state. Nature Keep Colorado Wildpass with your next vehicle registration. It's more than a state park's pass, it's Nature's BFF. Learn more at CPW.info/KeepColoradoWild. 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 day? What about the best tasting and most complete greens powder in the world? We think so. It started today at firstform.com/healthy to get free shipping on most orders and a 110% money-back guarantee if you don't love your first form products. That's the number one STPHORM.com/healthy. If you're a small business owner, upswell marketing would like to remind you that when customers choose your business, they're really choosing you. So focus on super-serving your existing customers and let upswell handle the pipeline generation of new leads, upswell specializes in building and managing custom direct response campaigns, and is now offering a no-obligation free assessment of your current marketing strategies. New customers also receive 15% off their first order. For more information, visit upswellmarketing.com. That's upswellmarketing.com.