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AP Headline News - May 28 2024 15:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ed Donoghue, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass has started his closing arguments and former President Donald Trump's Hush Money trial in New York. He says this case is about a conspiracy and a cover-up. The defense closing arguments have wrapped up. The AP's Julie Walker is in New York. Donald Trump sat by stoically during closing arguments by one of his defense lawyers in his Hush Money trial, who spent two and a half hours telling jurors. When Trump is innocent, he did not commit any crimes and the DA has not met their burden of proof, period, and the evidence in the case should leave you wanting. Trump's attorney also calling star witness Michael Cohen, the MVP of liars, out to get his former boss. The defense trying to discredit weeks of testimony that prosecutors say proved the former president interfered in the 2016 election through a scheme to suppress stories seen as harmful to his campaign. From prosecutions, closing arguments were to take up the rest of the day. At Criminal Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. Outside court today in New York was Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro. If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted, and elections forget about it. Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara, was also outside court. This is not the United States of America if this is successful. This is banana republic-type stuff. Pentagon spokesman Sabrina Singh says the U.S. built temporary peer, taking humanitarian aid to starving Palestinians has been damaged in rough seas and weather. The Trident Pier will be removed from its anchored position on the coast and towed back to Ashdod, where U.S. Central Command will conduct repairs. President Biden will be formally nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee through a virtual roll call ahead of the party's official convention in Chicago in August. It will allow him to appear on the November ballot in Ohio. This is AP news. A World War II veteran who helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp is warning against Holocaust denial. "One hundred-year-old Hilbert man-goals still remembers his military convoy passing a post on a German country road in 1945." "To said Dachau." Margot says there was a stench, so he and his twin brother were allowed to investigate. They found a train of boxcars in the woods. "And inside the boxcar, we're all to cease bodies, just packed inside the boxcar." Their 42nd Infantry Division unit then came across the Dachau camp and moorhors. "Stacks of dead bodies like cordwood." Among the more than 40,000 prisoners who died at Dachau, Margot says he still prays that everyone who hears his voice and their children outlive the offspring of Holocaust deniers. I'm Sagar Meghani. I'm Adonah Hugh, AP News.