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GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says sexual transmission of Zika (ZEE'-kuh) is more common than first thought. It is updating its advice to women who have been in areas hit by the virus, telling them to wait even longer to conceive. The World Health Organization says the women should wait at least eight weeks to make sure the virus has cleared their bodies. Previously, WHO recommended a four-week minimum period before trying to conceive in such circumstances. The current outbreak is linked to a rare birth defect.
WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers have been more than willing to spend recently. The government says consumer spending surged in April by the largest amount in more than six years, led by a big jump in purchases of autos and other durable goods. Spending increased 1 percent last month after a flat reading in March. Incomes rose a solid 0.4 percent, matching the March gain. Wages and salaries, the most important component of incomes, gained 0.5 percent. The strong April gain for consumer spending is a good sign that the economy is doing a lot better in the current quarter after nearly stalling out at the start of the year. On Wall Street, stocks have opened with modest gains after a three-day weekend.
NEW YORK (AP) —Donald Trump is set to announce the charities that will receive the money he raised for veterans' causes earlier this year. He'll make the announcement at a press conference at Trump Tower today. Trump has claimed that he raised $6 million through a combination of pledges from wealthy friends, the public and $1 million from himself. But his campaign refused to disclose which charities had received the money months after the event, held in January. It led to speculation that the money raised was less than he had claimed.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The federal trial of three young men accused of conspiring to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group is winding down in Minnesota. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin today in the trial of the three men. They have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States, and other charges. Prosecutors spent more than two weeks presenting evidence they say shows the men were part of a larger group who conspired to travel to Syria. Evidence included recordings made by an FBI informant.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A judge in Oklahoma today will sentence a former volunteer sheriff's deputy who was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect last year. Tulsa County jurors who found 74-year-old Robert Bates guilty last month recommended that he serve four years in prison. Bates says he mistook his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot Eric Harris. The killing prompted a grand jury investigation of the sheriff's office and the indictment and resignation of Sheriff Stanley Glanz, a close friend of Bates.
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