NTD Evening News (July 21): Trump Classified Documents Trial Set for May 2024; AI Companies Commit to Safeguards at Biden Meeting

A federal judge in Florida on July 21 scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents. Michael Cohen, a personal lawyer of Trump’s for over a decade, is settling a lawsuit he brought against the Trump Organization in 2019. Jurors were already sworn in and the trial was set to begin Monday, but lawyers for both parties agreed in court to a settlement. The Biden administration has announced new voluntary commitments from seven major artificial intelligence (AI) companies, another milestone in the White House’s attempt to get ahead of the fast-moving technology. Tony Bennett, the timeless and illustrious crooner whose career spanned eight decades, even garnering a number-one album at age 85, died Friday morning. He was 96, just two weeks short of his birthday.