Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - May 29 2024 08:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Folley. It's a crucial moment in former President Trump's hush money trial. The jury is about to get the case. The AP's Julie Walker is covering the trial in New York. Juris in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial are expected to begin deliberations after receiving instructions from the judge on the law and the factors they may consider as they try to reach a verdict in the first criminal case against a former American president. Today's deliberations will follow a marathon day of closing arguments in which a prosecutor accused Trump of trying to hood wing voters in the 2016 presidential election by participating in a hush money scheme and to stifle stories such as a sexual encounter Stormy Daniels testified to that he feared would harm his Republican campaign. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He's pleaded not guilty and denied all the charges. At Criminal Court in Manhattan, I'm Julie Walker. Still lots of power outages in Stormwerry, Texas a day after more severe weather flooded streets uprooted trees and ripped off roofs. A teenager was killed at a construction site while working on a home that collapsed. David Roth is with the Storm Prediction Center and he says the area around East Texas has been getting lots of rain and that is bringing flooding worries. That seems to be the big concern. I mean, severe weather does kill people, but flash-filling still kills more. President Macron of France says Western country should let Ukraine strike military bases inside Russia with the long-range weapons they are providing to Kyiv. Western leaders mostly stayed away from this because it runs the risk of provoking Russian President Putin, who has repeatedly warned that the West direct involvement could put the world on a path to nuclear conflict. Conoco Phillips is buying marathon oil. It's an all-stock deal valued at about $17 billion. This is AP News. There's word that there are more executions worldwide up to the highest number since 2015. A new report by Amnesty International says that it recorded a total of 1,153 executions in 2023, a 30 percent increase from 2022. Amnesty says the figure does not include thousands of death sentences believed to have been carried out in China. Your data is not available due to state secrecy. The group says the spike in recorded executions was primarily driven by Iran, where authorities executed at least 853 people last year compared to 576 in 2022. Amnesty says China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and the U.S. were the five countries with the highest number of executions in 2023. I'm Lisa Dwyer and I'm Rita Foley, AP News. Here in America, work is in trouble. We've off-shored our manufacturing, sent away good jobs, and lost so much ability to make things. American Giant is a company that's pushing back against this tide. They make high-quality clothing, sweatshirts, jeans, dresses, jackets, and so much more right here in the USA. Visit american-giant.com and get 20% off your first order when you use code "Staple20" at checkout. It's 20% off your first order at american-giant.com. Promo code "Staple20."