Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Jul 12 2024 19:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas, actor Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial. It's over. "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." President Biden's campaigning in Michigan this evening, and Josh Boke reports he's expressing confidence about his re-election bid. "Biden was very clear that he would drop out if Poland showed he couldn't win. He was very clear that others could vote their conscious and not necessarily for him. But he said so with a degree of certainty that they wouldn't. And that tells you right now about how he's feeling. The rest of the world is listening to these calls for him to step down, and he's blocking them out. He believes he's got this nomination in the bag, and he's the best to deal with Trump. A court victory for the president today, a federal judge in Kansas, refused to block the nationwide enforcement of his administration's rule, requiring bar armed scalers to background checks at gun shows. Senator Susan Collins, the main Republican, says she will not be voting for Donald Trump this November. She intends to write in Nikki Haley. The heat wave in the West is feeding wildfires. Sheila Freeman lives on the San Carlos Apache reservation. "I lost my house. I lost my cars. I lost my neighbors. Everywhere around in the neighborhood." Jackie Quinn has more. Officials in Northern California say they found human remains in a structure that burned earlier this week. In a wildfire in Mendocino County, they think it's a 66-year-old woman reported missing by her family, and the coroner will make a final identification. That would be the first wildfire death of this season. California crews are working in scorching temperatures, battling a number of fires, including a blaze that's burned more than 50 square miles in the mountains of Santa Barbara County, forcing evacuations. I'm Jackie Quinn. This is AP News. An accident involving a SpaceX rocket has left its Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit. For the first time in a decade, a SpaceX rocket failed. The company says the Falcon 9, carrying 20 Starlink satellites, had an upper stage engine malfunction. The satellites are in an orbit so low, they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up. SpaceX is blaming it all on a liquid oxygen leak. There was no mention of when these satellites might come down. The FAA says the problem must be fixed before Falcon rockets can fly again. It's not known how this might impact SpaceX's upcoming crew flights. A billionaire spaceflight is scheduled for the end of the month, with plans for the first private spacewalk. I'm Ed Donahue. Many new images from the web space telescope show a pair of intertwined galaxies surrounded by a blue haze of stars and gas. They're 326 million light-years away. I'm Ben Thomas, AP News. Thanks for listening. What's next? At Moss Adams, that question inspires us to help people and their businesses strategically define and claim their future. As one of America's leading accounting, consulting and wealth management firms, our collaborative approach creates solutions for your unique business needs. We leverage industry-focused insights with the collective technical resources of our firm to elevate your performance, uncover opportunity, and move upward at MossAtoms.com. Why wear a seatbelt? The math speaks for itself. You have a one-in-40 chance of being in a crash this year, but wearing a seatbelt reduces your risk of serious harm by 50%. In a rollover crash, more than three out of five deaths are from those who weren't wearing theirs. Seatbelts save lives. Over 370,000, in fact, most passengers killed in crashes weren't buckled up. Nobody is above the laws of physics, buckle up, and shift in a safe. A message from the Colorado Department of Transportation.