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Ariel Henry has resigned as prime minister of Haiti, paving the way for a new government to take power. The country has been wracked by gang violence that killed or injured more than 2,500 people from January to March. Henry presented his resignation in a letter signed in Los Angeles, dated April 24, and released on Thursday by his office on the same day a council tasked with choosing a new prime minister and Cabinet for Haiti was sworn in. Henry’s Cabinet meanwhile chose Economy and Finance Minister Michel Patrick Boisvert as the interim prime minister. It was not immediately clear when the transitional council would select its own interim prime minister.

Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker recalls an irate Donald Trump calling him after The Wall Street Journal published an article shortly before the 2016 election. Pecker’s testimony came in his third day on the stand in Trump’s hush money trial in New York. The Journal article broke the news of the Enquirer’s payment to Karen McDougal for her rights to a story claiming an affair with Trump. Pecker says Trump was upset because he thought Pecker had the story under control. Pecker testified that the Enquirer owner's response to the Journal that the company had “not paid people to kill damaging stories about Mr. Trump” was a lie.

Some U.S. universities called in police to break up demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war, resulting in ugly scuffles and dozens of new arrests. Other schools appeared content to wait out student protests Thursday, as the final days of the semester ticked down and graduation ceremonies loomed. Boston police say 108 people were arrested early Thursday at Emerson College and four officers suffered injuries at an encampment. Police peacefully arrested 93 pro-Palestinian student protesters at the University of Southern California Wednesday evening. The arrests came hours after police at a Texas university aggressively detained 34 demonstrators.

Will Power says he was unaware of any manipulations to Team Penske’s push-to-power system until after last weekend’s IndyCar race at Long Beach and never illegally used the mechanism. Team Penske is under heavy scrutiny following the season-opening race at St. Petersburg, Florida, in which Josef Newgarden was stripped of the victory and Scott McLaughlin, who finished third, was also disqualified. Power finished fourth and while his result was not thrown out, he was docked 10 points and all three Penske drivers were fined $25,000. Power has not been accused of any wrongdoing but was punished because the manipulated systems were found on all three Penske cars.

Stocks are tumbling after a report suggesting flagging economic growth and still-high inflation hurt the hopes that have kept Wall Street high recently. A sharp drop for Facebook parent Meta Platforms also dragged the market lower Thursday. The S&P 500 fell 0.8%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 479 points, and the Nasdaq composite fell 1.2%. Treasury yields climbed in the bond market to raise the pressure after the government reported that inflation remained hotter than forecast during the first three months of the year. It also suggested the U.S. economy’s growth slowed more than economists expected.