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Month: April 2024

The Latest | Pecker says he wanted to keep tabloid’s agreement with Trump ‘as quiet as possible’

NEW YORK (AP) — The National Enquirer’s former publisher has returned to the stand in Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial. David Pecker is the first witness in the first-ever criminal trial against a former U.S. president. Prosecutors say Pecker worked with Trump and Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, on a “catch-and-kill” strategy to buy up

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Tesla 1Q profit falls 55%, but stock jumps as company moves to speed production of cheaper vehicles

By TOM KRISHER and DAVID HAMILTON AP Business Writers Tesla’s first-quarter net income plummeted 55%, but its stock price surged in after-hours trading Tuesday as the company said it would accelerate production of new, more affordable vehicles. The Austin, Texas, company said it made $1.13 billion from January through March compared with $2.51 billion in

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Senate passes $95 billion package sending aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after months of delay

By Morgan Rimmer and Ted Barrett, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Senate on Tuesday passed a long-delayed $95 billion package with wide bipartisan support after both sides of Capitol Hill have struggled for months to send aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The final vote was 79-18. Fifteen Republicans voted with three Democrats against the bill. Forty-eight Democrats and

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Russia begins withdrawing peacekeeping forces from Karabakh, now under full Azerbaijan control

MOSCOW (AP) — Officials from both countries say Russian forces are being withdrawn from Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region, where they have been stationed as peacekeepers since the end of a war in 2020. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday confirmed reports of the withdrawal but didn’t give further details. Hikmet Hajiyev, the head of foreign policy

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More deaths in the English Channel underscore risks for migrants despite UK efforts to stem the tide

By DANICA KIRKA and BARBARA SURK Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Five more people have died in the English Channel, underscoring the risks of crossing one of the world’s busiest sea lanes in overloaded inflatable boats just hours after British lawmakers approved a controversial migrant bill to stop the traffic. The migrants, including a 7-year-old

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A Russian strike on Kharkiv’s TV tower is part of an intimidation campaign, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a Russian missile strike that smashed a prominent skyline television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin’s effort to intimidate Ukraine’s second-largest city, which in recent weeks has come under increasingly frequent attack. The strike sought to “make the terror

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