News Wrap: World Health Organization declares end to COVID-19 global emergency

Geoff Bennett:

A day earlier, a teenage gunman had killed eight students and a guard at a Belgrade school.

Flash floods in a province in Eastern Congo have claimed the lives of at least 176 people. Torrential rains this week sent rivers into two villages in the Central African nation, destroying buildings and triggering landslides. The rain also caused flooding in neighboring Rwanda that killed 130 people.

The two warring sides in Sudan sent envoys to Saudi Arabia today for talks on trying to enforce a cease-fire. That word came as fierce fighting continued without letup all across Khartoum. The capital city has been ravaged by three weeks of intense combat. The talks between Sudan's army and paramilitary rebels will take place in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

Back in this country, the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked Oklahoma from executing a death row inmate. Richard Glossip was involved in a murder-for-hire plot back in 1997 and scheduled to be put to death on May 18. The state's attorney general had called for his life to be spared, arguing that he didn't receive a fair trial. The High Court now put his execution on hold while it reviews the case.

Wall Street rallied as bank stocks recovered some and Apple's earnings beat expectations. It's the single most valuable stock on the market. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 546 points, or 1.6 percent, to close at 33674. The Nasdaq rose 2.25 percent. The S&P 500 was up 1.8 percent.

And a New Orleans teenager is headed for Cornell University after receiving a record $10 million in scholarship offers. Dennis Barnes announced his choice today and said he will study computer science. He's 16 years old and is graduating from high school two years early. Barnes applied to nearly 200 schools and had scholarship offers from 149 of them.

Congratulations to him.

And still to come on the "NewsHour": Idaho criminalizes helping minors travel out of state to get an abortion; David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart weigh in on the week's political headlines; and Brits express mixed feelings ahead of the coronation of King Charles.

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