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CNN 5 Things

6 PM ET: Trump jury seated, Columbia University protests, mortgage rates soar & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Twelve jurors have been selected in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. More than 100 people have been arrested during a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University. Mortgage rates have reached their highest level since November. A new report breaks down the health risks linked to some imported strawberries. Lastly, we’ll tell you where volcanic eruptions are triggering a tsunami threat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.8

From CNN, I'm a Foma Dikay. With the five things you need to know for Thursday April 18th

0:26.4

Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial has concluded for the day and resumes Friday morning

0:31.5

A jury of 12 and one alternate have now been chosen.

0:34.9

We started the day with seven seated jurors, but the judge excused two of them, one of whom

0:40.0

was concerned that she could no longer be impartial after the news media

0:43.8

revealed information about her identity. The judge scolded the press about that.

0:49.4

A law enforcement official says New York police have detained more than 100 students and faculty at Columbia University and charged them with criminal trespass.

0:58.0

Police had entered the campus at the request of the school's president to disperse a pro-Palestine protest. Let them go go.

1:20.0

The demonstration started Wednesday as Columbia's president testified before a House

1:24.4

committee. She acknowledged the school needed to do more to quote confront anti-Semitism on campus

1:29.8

while balancing students free speech rights.

1:31.8

Minu Shafique told lawmakers she would enforce while balancing students free speech rights.

1:32.6

Minu Chafique told lawmakers she would enforce rules about unauthorized protests.

1:37.2

While students, professors, and other people set up tents and signs on the south lawn of the

1:41.8

campus in Upper Manhattan, many of them camped overnight.

1:45.2

In an email to students obtained by CNN, Chafique said she had authorized the NYPD

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