Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Jul 16 2024 09:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Falle. Today's day two of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump, now officially the Republican nominee for president. Former President Donald Trump brought the crowd to life on Monday, entering the Pfizer forum with a bandaged ear after his injury during an assassination attempt on Saturday. Trump named Ohio Senator and Hillbilly Effigy authored JD Vance as his running mate. In an interview for Fox News Channel's Hannity, Vance says he admires Trump's approach to foreign policy. You don't commit America's troops unless you really have to, but when you do, you're punching your punch bar. RNC organizers say immigration and crime are the featured topics. Speakers are expected to include former UN ambassador Nikki Haley and family members of people murdered by immigrants who were in the US illegally. Vance speaks Wednesday and former President Trump speaks Thursday. I'm Jennifer King. President Biden's willing black voters speaking today at the NAACP convention in Las Vegas, where, by the way, it's going to be 109 degrees today. Millions of Americans are sweating and blistering heat across much of the nation today. National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Pereira says expect the intense heat to continue today. We're expecting temperatures today to reach new records to record breaking all the way from the Northeast to Southern New England down through the Minnetlandic into portions of this southeast today. Over the weekend in Utah, three hikers died in state and national parks and cases authorities believe were heat related. I'm Donna Warder. Tonight, Texas will execute a man convicted of killing an 85-year-old woman in 1998 as he tried to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars she had hidden in her home, say authorities. That's the warning you to be aware of scams on this Amazon Prime Day. Phony emails look alike websites. This is AP News. Brutal weather in Afghanistan is killing people. People pray in Langerhart Province, after heavy rains in eastern Afghanistan, kill at least 40 people with hundreds injured. Karula Khan, a victim's neighbor, says there was a storm and rainfall together yesterday. This house collapsed on the people. Fifteen were living there, seven of them died. A spokesperson for the public health ministry says over 300 injured people who have been brought for treatment to the regional hospital in Nangahar from Jalalabad. About 400 houses and dozens of electricity poles were destroyed across the province and power was cut in many areas of the provincial capital. Separately, the official Taliban news agency reported that people died and dozens injured when a bus overturned on a main highway. I'm Charles Taladezma. And I'm Rita Foley, AP News.