Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli drone strike on a car in the eastern part of the country has killed two people. The strike came after Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group carried out an attack along the border that killed an Israeli civilian. Meanwhile, Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel in the hope of reaching a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza. Officials say it warned that a possible new Israeli offensive focused on Rafah could have catastrophic consequences for regional stability. Rafah is in southern Gaza on the border with Egypt.

The prosecution has called its third witness in former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial to testify. Gary Farro works at Flagstar Bank as a private client adviser and was previously at First Republic Bank, which was used by former Trump attorney and fixer Michael Cohen. Farro, testifying pursuant to a subpoena, says Cohen had several personal bank accounts at First Republic when Farro took over the client relationship in 2015. He says he was told he had been selected for the client relationship because of his ability to handle “challenging” individuals. He says he didn't find Cohen “that difficult.”

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Alphabet and Microsoft led the U.S. stock market to its first winning week in the last four and its biggest weekly gain since November. The S&P 500 rose 1% Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 2%. Google's parent company jumped after breezing past analysts’ expectations for profit and announcing its first dividend. Microsoft climbed after also topping forecasts. They helped offset a slide for Intel after it gave a forecast for profit that fell short of analysts' expectations. Treasury yields eased after a report on inflation for March came in close to expectations.

Donald Trump’s defense team in his hush money case is seeking to undermine the testimony of the prosecution's first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. Pecker returned to the witness stand Friday for a fourth day as defense attorneys tried to poke holes in his testimony about his tabloid’s efforts to protect his old friend from potentially damaging stories. The second witness called to the stand Friday afternoon was Rhona Graff, Trump’s longtime executive assistant. Graff, who started working for Trump in 1987 and left the Trump Organization in April 2021, has been described as his gatekeeper and right hand.

Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up on an increasing number of college…