Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 28 2024 11:00 (EDT)
A P news. I'm Ed Donahue. The Biden campaign is sending allies to New York for the Hush Money trial of former President Donald Trump. Among them is Academy Award winner Robert De Niro, who has been critical of Trump in the past. The Biden campaign is renewing a focus on insurrection. Trump's defense team is using a PowerPoint demonstration to start to try to convince the jury Trump is innocent. Invoices, vouchers, and checks are being shown. The AP's Julie Walker is in New York. Donald Trump came to court for closing arguments in his Hush Money trial, surrounded by family, including his two oldest sons and youngest daughter, Tiffany, missing where his wife Melania and daughter Ivanka. This is a dark day in America. We have a rigged court case that should have never been brought, and it should have been brought in another jurisdiction. As you know, we ask for that. His defense is first with closing arguments. The prosecution, having the burden of proof, goes last, which is standard. We'll see how it goes. This is a very dangerous day for Americans, a very sad day. Prosecutors charge Trump with falsifying business records to cover Hush Money payments, which he denies. At Criminal Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. The conference board says consumer confidence rose in May after three straight months of declines, but Americans remain anxious about high interest rates and inflation. Severe weather hit North Texas this morning. Storms left at least 23 people dead over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Justin Hurst lost his home in Piot, Arkansas. We felt it hit the house and just felt it started sucking air up through the through the walls and windows. I heard the roof go roughly 160,000 homes and businesses are without electricity. In Kentucky, Arkansas, West Virginia and Missouri. Pope Francis is apologizing after he was quoted last month using a vulgar term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church's ban on gay priests. This is AP News. I'm Seth Zutel and this is markets in a minute. Wall Street is moving sideways as traders come back from a three day weekend. Yes, in P 500 was virtually unchanged in the first hour of trading Tuesday. The benchmark index is sitting just below the record high. It's set a week ago. The Dow fell 138 points. That's about four tenths percent. The NASDAQ composite was 4 tenths percent higher. U.S. Cellular climbed more than 2 percent after T-Mobile said it will buy nearly all of the company. GameStop jumped more than 15 percent. The company said it raised 933 million dollars through a previously announced stock sale. Nvidia added another 4.7 percent bringing its gain for the year so far to 125 percent. Treasury yields were holding steady in the bond market. The yield on the tenure treasure note was little changed. 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