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AP Headline News - Jul 12 2024 21:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas. There's a Biden campaign in Michigan today. Hearing cheers in Detroit. It's talking, McGonney, reports four years ago he made a promise in Michigan. During the 2020 campaign, candidate Biden said he was a bridge to the next generation. Four years later, many Democrats are urging him to fulfill that promise and end his candidacy. Last night, the president said things have changed, the gravity and the situation I inherited. And amid what he calls unprecedented threats from GOP challenger Donald Trump, he met privately last night with top house Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries, who says he gave the president the full breadth of views from colleagues about the path forward after days of candid talks. Sager, McGonney, Washington, meantime, there's one Republican senator declaring she will not vote for Donald Trump in November. Maine's Susan Collins says she'll write in Nikki Haley in a New Mexico court. The state's discovery violation has injected a needless and curable delay into the instant jury trial. Judge Mary Marlow's summer, your motion to dismiss with prejudice is granted. Throwing out the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin, citing the withholding of evidence from his defense team. She also ruled that the case over the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a movie set cannot be filed again. Senator Bob Menendez's trial has gone to the jury. The New Jersey Democrats accused of taking bribes and being a foreign agent for the Egyptian government. A court victory for the Biden administration, a federal judge in Kansas, has refused to block the nationwide enforcement of its rule requiring firearms dealers to do background checks at gun shows. In economic news, wholesale prices rose by a larger than expected 2.6% in June from a year earlier. This is AP News. Birds, angered by drones. Jake Offenhart says the story. A new program to fly drones over New York City beaches to scan for sharks and struggling swimmers is drawing backlash from nesting shorebirds. Since launching this summer, the police drones have been repeatedly swarmed by flocks of American oyster catchers, forcing pilots to ground the devices on several occasions. Veronica Welsh, with the Parks Department, says the birds appear to be mistaking the drones for predators. They will pretty much like fly at it, they'll try to like swoop at it, they'll be vocalizing the whole time, and it pretty much doesn't stop until the drone goes down. Wildlife groups fear the beaches other bird species, including endangered piping plovers could be driven away by the drones. The Mayor Eric Adams, a drone enthusiast, is defending the program, calling it a great addition to saving lives. Jake Offenhart's New York. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News.