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AP Headline News - May 29 2024 09:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Folley. Nobody knows what they'll do. The jurors in Donald Trump's Hush Money trial are expected to begin their deliberations today. The AP's Julie Walker is covering the trial in New York. The judge presiding over Donald Trump's Hush Money case will give jurors instructions today on the charges against the former president and how to weigh them. Closing arguments were yesterday, with the defense taking more than two and a half hours, telling jurors the star witness is a liar and Trump did nothing wrong. And prosecutors taking more than four and a half hours telling jurors the former president engaged in a conspiracy and cover up. The jury will weigh 34 felony charges against Trump stemming from what the prosecution says were falsified business records to cover Hush Money payments to possibly sway the election. At Manhattan Criminal Court, I'm Julie Walker. That caused that Singapore Airlines flight to drop fast while in the air before it made an emergency landing in Bangkok last week. This morning, Singapore says a preliminary investigation shows it was rapid change in the gravitational force in the turbulence. One passenger died. Many others who weren't buckled up were hurt. Much of this nation is going to get more thunderstorms today. Hail to maybe and gusty winds. The north east, the central U.S. too, expecting thunderstorms, Texas has been hit particularly hard in this latest round of storms, the AP's Donna Warder. Another burst of severe weather ripped the roofs off homes, uprooted trees and flooded streets on parts of Texas on Tuesday. A 16 year old boy was killed at a construction site while working on a home that collapsed. I'm Donna Warder. This Smithsonian says two giant pandas will return to Washington's national zoo from China by the end of the year. Gas is four cents a gallon cheaper this morning than a week ago. This is AP News. We're lawmakers with the European Union bribed to promote Russian propaganda. Belgium's Federal Prosecutor's Office says police have carried out searches at the residence of an employee of the European Parliament and at his office in the Parliament's building in Brussels over possible Russian interference, they add the suspect's office in Strasbourg where the EU Parliament's headquarters are located in France have also been searched. The federal prosecutor says members of the European Parliament were approached and paid to promote Russian propaganda via the Voice of Europe News website. The prosecutor's ad, they believe the employee played a significant role in this. On Charles de la Desma. The DAO fell 216 points yesterday. The S&P rose one point. The Nasdaq rose 99 points. I'm Rita Foley, AP News. Two of us on SUV familiar. We've been working on a system that is very important, but we've been working on it for a long time. 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. Meet Tandem Moby, the impressively small and powerful automated insulin delivery system from Tandem Diabetes Care. The Tandem Moby insulin pump is about the size of an earbuds case, which means it offers wearability like never before. Wear it on body with an adhesive sleeve, clip it to your clothing, or simply slip it into the coin pocket of your pants. Discover a pump designed to fit your lifestyle and do what moves you with Tandem Moby. Learn more at TandemDiabetes.com. Adhesive sleeves sold separately are ex-only, indicated for patients with type 1 diabetes six years and older safety info available at TandemDiabetes.com/safetyinfo. These days, work is in trouble. We've outsourced most of our manufacturing to other countries. And with that, we sent away good jobs and our capability to make things. American Giant is a clothing company that's pushing back against this tide. They make all kinds of high-quality clothing and activewear, like sweatshirts, jeans, dresses, jackets, and so much more, right here in the USA. So when you buy American Giant, you create jobs in towns and cities across the country, and jobs bring pride, purpose, they stitch people together. If all that sounds good to you, visit american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order when you use code Staple20 at checkout. That's 20% off your first order at american-giant.com with promo code Staple20.