News Wrap: Parliamentary election victory for South Korea’s ruling party

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• Judy Woodruff:

  In the day's other news: Wall Street managed small gains, despite the latest job losses.

  The Dow Jones industrial average was up 33 points to close at 23537. The Nasdaq rose 139 points, and the S&P 500 added 16.

  In South Korea, the ruling party has won big in parliamentary elections held Wednesday. Voters had to wear masks and plastic gloves and get their temperatures checked. But turnout was the highest in nearly 30 years. The outcome may boost President Moon Jae-in's efforts to improve relations with North Korea.

  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, are still deadlocked over forming a government. They missed a new deadline today, and the country's president has now given Parliament three weeks to find someone who can fashion a coalition. Otherwise, Israel faces its fourth election in just over one year.

  A World War II veteran in Britain reached his goal today, and he raised nearly $16 million for health care workers who are battling the pandemic. Tom Moore is 99 years old. He pledged to walk 100 laps in his garden, and online donations went viral.

  Today, moving with a walker, Moore finished his feat, as a military honor guard saluted. He said he was overwhelmed by the response.

• Captain Tom Moore:

  It's unbelievable that people would be so kind to give that sort of money to the National Health Service. And maybe I was responsible for starting it, but not deliberately.

• Judy Woodruff:

  Mr. Moore turns 100 years old on April 30.

  What a great example he sets.

  And the actor Brian Dennehy has died. His representative says he passed away overnight in New Haven, Connecticut, of natural causes. Dennehy's many film roles included the sheriff in "First Blood," who battled Sylvester Stallone as Rambo. On stage, he won two Tony Awards, including one as Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" in 1998.

  Brian Dennehy was 81 years old.