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AP Headline News - Jul 16 2024 21:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas. Immigrations to theme of the night at the Republican National Convention, Arizona Senate candidate, Kerry Lake. The problems we face are huge. The problems caused by the Democrat Party. But the solutions, guys, they're really simple. First of all, stop the Biden invasion and build the wall. Easy. In time, President Biden addressed the NAACP convention in Las Vegas, noting Trump's choice of words. I love his phrase, "black jobs." He tells a lot about the man and about his character. Folks, I know what a black job is. It's a vice president of the United States. Federal law enforcement officials are warning of possible copycat attacks or retaliatory violence after the assassination attempts against Donald Trump. In New York of verdict, Julie Walker has it. Guilty. That's the verdict in New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez's federal trial of accepting bribes of cash, gold bars, and a luxury car from three businessmen and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt. And Lisa Dwyer reports on the death of an award-winning chef. Naomi Pomeroy, who helped put Portland Oregon on the map as a culinary destination, drowned Saturday evening after the group she was tubing with, got caught on an exposed snag in the water. Pomeroy was pulled under the water and trapped by a paddleboard leash that was attached to her. The group had tied their inner tubes and paddleboard together. The Oregon State Marine Board says that there has been an emerging trend in recent years of people dying due to the leash on their stand-up paddleboard, getting tangled in brush or other debris in rivers. Pomeroy rose to prominence in the Portland food scene after opening the restaurant Beast in 2007. Pomeroy was 49. I'm Lisa Dwyer. This is AP News. Amazon Prime Day is here and experts are reminding consumers to be wary of scams. Shelley Adler has details. Prime Day, a two-day discount event for Amazon Prime members, is underway and wraps up on Wednesday. An updated guidance published last week, Melanie McGovern, a spokesman for the Better Business Bureau, reminds consumers to be very careful. We know that scammers like to prey on people who are unlike shopping, if it's an inbox message, if it's a social media message, if it's a fake website that pops up. This is the time that we do see this type of activity. Like phishing scams. Use caution whenever you're clicking into emails to make sure that you've not clicked into one of these fake websites, ended up giving up your personal information or credit card information. The Better Business Bureau published a report last month that said it received a record number of phishing reports last year. I'm Shelley Adler and I'm Ben Thomas, AP News. Thank you for listening.