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AP Headline News - Jul 12 2024 09:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Falle. President Biden campaigns in Michigan today after last night's news conference that was so closely watched. There was that flub. I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President to think she was not qualified to be President. But overall, he gave very specific answers to reporters' questions and his plans for four more years in office. Look, I got more work to do. We got more work to finish. And the president says he's the best qualified to do it. At a highly anticipated news conference aimed at reassuring lawmakers and voters after a dismal debate, the president said it would be different if he was slowing down and couldn't do the job. But there's no indication of that yet. No. For an hour, the president held his own under intense questioning, largely trading the debate's stumbles and blank stares for engagement on several issues. But he did make two notable gaffes within two hours, referring to Vice President Trump and earlier at the NATO summit, Ukrainian President Putin. Sagar Magani, Washington. A man who drove his vehicle through a flooded street is the second person to die in Vermont and the flooding from Hurricane Barrel's remnants, the AP's Donna Warder. Police say a 73-year-old man who ignored bystanders' warnings to turn around died when he drove his vehicle through a flooded street Thursday morning in Londonville. His body was recovered hours later. On Wednesday, a 33-year-old man died when his all-terrain vehicle was swept away by floodwaters in Picham. Millions of Americans are still feeling that brutal heat, but not as many. About 63 million people were under heat alerts yesterday. Wholesale prices rose by a larger than expected 2.6 percent last month from a year earlier, a sign that some inflation pressures remain high. This is AP News. Want a dinosaur of your own? For just a few million dollars? Somebody's going to get one. A stegosaurus will be auctioned in New York. The specimen is named Apex and was discovered in Colorado two years ago. This is a Jurassic period dinosaur, so about 161 million years old. Sotheby's Cassandra Hatton says Apex is 11 feet tall, 27 feet long from nose to tail. She calls it a coloring book dinosaur. When you're a kid, you get a coloring book with dinosaurs. You've got T-Rex, you've got Triceratops, you've got stegosaurus. It's one of the top three most recognized and most popular dinosaurs. So experts believe stegosaurus has used their fearsome tail spikes to fight. This specimen showed no signs of combat. It didn't die fighting. Apex will be auctioned next week as part of the Geek Week series. Sotheby's is estimating it will sell for four to six million dollars. I'm Ed Donahue. And I'm Rita Foley, AP News. How dangerous is it to unwrap a burger at 40 miles per hour? More so than you think. In a little over two seconds, your car can travel slightly more than 117 feet, which is the same length as 20 bicycles. Anything that distracts you while driving is dangerous. That's why driving while texting can be deadly too. So put it down, it can wait. Don't drive distracted, shift into safe. A message from the Colorado Department of Transportation. 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.