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AP Headline News - Jul 12 2024 07:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Falle. President Biden had a very noticeable flub during his news conference last night. 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 detailed answers to questions about his work and insisted he is not dropping out of the race for the White House. AP Washington correspondent Sagar Magone on what else the president said. 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 that. No. For an hour, the president held his own under intense questioning, largely trading the debate 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 Magone Washington. Two people have now died in Vermont in the flooding from Hurricane barrels Remdance. Grant Nelson lives in Waterberry and he says it was raining so heavily Wednesday night. He and his family had to run for it. It didn't seem so bad. And then all of a sudden, I really bad really quick. And it was dark out. And I couldn't really see how I could get out if we had to. So I called the fire department. They sent water bear rescue. An American tourist has died during an excursion on Mount Etna in Sicily. Rescuers say he took ill, but it's not clear what caused his illness. They're warning people there about the heat. Now to X, which we used to call Twitter, the European Union says blue check marks from X are deceptive and can be used by malicious actors to deceive users. This is AP news. We're learning more about Donald Trump's lawyers request for a judge to overturn his hush money conviction. Donald Trump's lawyers are asking a New York judge to overturn his hush money conviction. Defense lawyers for former President Donald Trump have written that now that the Supreme Court ruled that Trump enjoys some immunity from criminal prosecution, the judge in his New York hush money case should overturn his conviction and end the criminal proceedings. They've also blasted prosecutors for rushing to put the former president on trial instead of awaiting guidance from the US Supreme Court. Trump was to be sentenced on the charge this week, but the trial judge, Juan Mershan, has delayed sentencing to determine if the felony conviction should be set aside. He says he'll issue his ruling September 6th. I'm Jackie Quinn and I'm Rita Foley AP news.