Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Jul 12 2024 20:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas, a new Mexico judge has thrown out the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin and ruled it cannot be filed again. Jackie Quinn has a report. A stunning development in the trial that began just days ago against actor Alec Baldwin, and a shooting on the set of his movie, Rust. "The sanction of dismissal is the only warranted remedy." Judge Mary Marlow Summer has dismissed the case. Agreeing with Baldwin's lawyers, there had been misconduct to buy police and prosecutors over evidence withheld from the defense. "Despite their repeated representations, they have continued to fail to disclose critical evidence." Baldwin was charged in the shooting death of cinematographer Halina Hutchins. On the set of his movie, Rust, in 2021, he cried and hugged his lawyers when the judge denounced she was dismissing the case. "I'm Jackie Quinn." "Well, thank you, I love your back, look." President Biden, before an enthusiastic crowd in Detroit this evening, "Mo-town is Joe-town, and it is." Many Democrats are discussing whether he should drop out of the race, but Congressman James Clyburn tells NBC's Today Show, "The conversation should focus on the record of this administration, on the alternative to his election, and let Joe Biden continue to make his own decisions about his truth. He's earned that right, and I am going to give him that much respect." The Labor Department's producer Price Index shows some inflation pressure remains wholesale prices up 2.6 percent in June from a year earlier. Quarterly results from big banks show consumers slowing spending, and stocks finish the week with games. The first victim ID from a Tulsa massacre, Mascrave. A white mob massacred as many as 300 black people over the span of two days in 1921 in Tulsa. 120 graves were found during searches that began in 2020. Forensic analysis and DNA were collected from about 30 sets of remains. The first to be identified, C.L. Daniel, was a veteran who served our country in World War I. Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum says it's believed Daniel was in his 20s. Oklahoma State archaeologist Carrie Steckelbeck says there was no sign of bullet wounds. "They forced him into a casket that was too small for his stature. They had to bend his legs somewhat at the knee in order to get him to fit." A lawsuit by the two known living survivors of the Tulsa massacre, ages 110 and 109, was dismissed by the Oklahoma Supreme Court last month. I'm Ed Donahue. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News.