Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 28 2024 10:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Falle. Prosecutors and defense lawyers in Donald Trump's Hush Money trial are delivering closing arguments today. The former president slamming the judge again just moments ago. We have a judge who's highly conflicted. He happens to be corrupt. The AP's Julie Walker is covering the trial in New York. Closing arguments expected to last for much of the day, if not all of it. The arguments don't count as evidence in the case charging Trump with falsifying business records to cover up Hush Money payments during the 2016 presidential election. They'll instead function as hours-long recaps of the key points the lawyers want to leave jurors with before the panel disappears behind closed doors for deliberations. Julie Walker, New York. Those fierce storms that have been slamming parts of the nation have left 22 people dead. The AP's Donna Warder, with the latest on this. Storms killed people in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kentucky. The deaths include seven in Cook County, Texas from a tornado Saturday that ripped through a mobile home park and there were eight deaths across Arkansas. I'm Donna Warder. The Israeli military is talking about that controversial and deadly weekend fire in a tent camp in Rafa in Gaza, saying the Israeli military fired munitions targeting Hamas militants. But they say those munitions were too small to ignite a fire on their own, saying they're looking into the possibility that weapons were stored in the area. Spain, Norway, and Ireland have now formally recognized a Palestinian state. Pope Francis apologizing this morning after reportedly using a vulgar term to stress the Catholic church's ban on gay priests. Chicago police shot and killed a stabbing suspect overnight after the suspect refused to drop his weapon. And as police opened fire, they also wounded the person he was trying to stab, say police. This is AP News. The latest now on all that traveling we've been doing, the AP's Shelly Adler has this. A record number of airline travelers were screened Friday ahead of Memorial Day. TSA says more than 2.9 million travelers were screened at US airports, surpassing a previous mark set last year on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The busiest airport with just over 104.5 million passengers was in Atlanta. That's according to airports Council International, which expects a very busy summer. Their trade group estimates that 271 million travelers will fly between June 1st and August 31st. That would break the record of 255 million set last summer. I'm Shelly Adler. Team Mobile is buying US cellular's wireless operations and some spectrum assets. It's an almost four and a half billion dollar deal. I'm Rita Foley, AP News.