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AP Headline News - May 28 2024 13:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ed Donny P. In Florida, the judge and former President Donald Trump's classified documents case is rejecting an attempt by prosecutors to prevent Trump from making public statements that could endanger law enforcement agents. More from the AP's Sagar McGonny. The request came after Trump claimed last week that FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago two years ago were authorized to shoot him, distorting a standard use of force policy. Judge Alien Hannon says prosecutors did not give Trump's lawyers enough time to discuss the request before filing at Friday evening. Sagar McGonny at the White House. Donald Trump today is a closing argument in his hush money trial. The AP's Julie Walker report supporters of Trump aren't the only ones at the New York courthouse. Actor Robert De Niro, along with two January six officers, all supporting the Biden-Harris campaign, stood outside Donald Trump's hush money trial denouncing the former president. Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city but the country and eventually he can destroy the world. De Niro says if Trump gets reelected, he will never leave. Nearby Trump supporters trying to shout over them and the former president entering court for closing arguments blaming the current president for the case against him. Make no mistake about it, I hear because of Crooked Joe Biden. Trump's GOP supporters followed the Democrats with their own news conference denouncing Biden. At Criminal Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. The conference board says consumer confidence rose in May after three months of declines. The index measures both Americans' assessment of current economic conditions and their outlook for the next six months. A Northern Virginia tech company, Arthur Grant Technologies, is paying $38,000 to settle claims it discriminated by posting a job listing seeking white US-born candidates for an opening as a business analyst. This is AP News. More spending conscious people are making no-by-year pledges. What started several years ago as a blogged about experiment in budgeting and mindful spending has become a popular trend on social media. Carrie Rattle is the CEO of Behavioral Sense, a financial coaching company. She's got advice when starting the no-by-year pledge. Go cold turkey. Prep yourself. Know where you're going to go. Start with a few key areas first and then as you build good habits there, continue on. And why is it so many Americans just have too many things? We are brainwashed by retail that says you aren't enough and they do it by creating aspirational ads. You can also cut back on purchases from an environmental perspective by limiting your contribution to the world's waste. I'm Shelley Atler. And I'm Ed Donahue, AP News.