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AP Headline News - Jul 12 2024 12:00 (EDT)
AP News! I'm Ed Donohue. President Biden returns to Michigan today. Four years ago, the AP Soccer McGonney reports the president promised to hand the baton to rising Democratic stars. 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. But last night, the president said things have changed. "The gravity of the situation I inherited." And amid what he calls "unprecedented threats" from GOP challenger Donald Trump. "I've got to finish this job." 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. Sagar McGonney, Washington. Democratic voter Marilyn Moreno from Connecticut wants someone younger. "Somebody that can really excite the Democratic base and bring in independent and undecided voters. And I just don't feel that's President Biden at this point." Sources tell the AP, former First Lady Melania Trump will attend the Republican National Convention next week in Milwaukee. Simple defense workers dug bodies out of collapsed buildings and pulled them out of troubled covered streets as they collected dozens of Palestinians killed by an Israeli assault in a district in Gaza City. The Israeli military said it was fighting Hamas militants who regrouped in the district, including the abandoned headquarters compound of a UN agency. Officials in Russia say a passenger jet crashed near Moscow while flying without passengers. Three crew members were killed. Wholesale inflation picked up last month and assigned some price pressures to remain elevated. Stocks remain sharply higher. At least one person died when a helicopter crashed in the ocean off the Hawaiian island of Kauai, defending champion Carlos Alcarez beat Daniel Medvedev to return to the Wimbledon final. This is AP News. The lead detective in the shooting of cinematographer Helena Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust is expected to testify in New Mexico and Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial. Prosecutors are going to try to cast the movie star as a reckless cavalier with a gun in his hand and the defense seeks to portray him as a working actor just doing his job. Corporal Alexandria Hancock didn't become the chief investigator until two weeks after the October 2021 shooting, but she conducted the first interviews of Baldwin, Rust-Armer, Hannah Guterres-Read, and the assistant director, David Halls. I'm Haya Punjwani. A New York jury is expected to begin deliberations later today in the bribery trial of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. Prosecutors say the Democrat and his wife catered to the needs of three New Jersey businessmen from 2018 to 2023 in return for gold, cash, and a Mercedes-Benz convertible. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News.