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AP Headline News - Jul 11 2024 17:00 (EDT)
AP News. I'm Ed Donahue. It's a crucial day for President Biden's campaign as he gets ready to face questions at a press conference and more Democrats want him to leave the race. At least a dozen Democrats are now urging the president to end his re-election bid. Top Biden aides met privately with skeptical senators like Sheldon Whitehouse. I am going to hold off until we've had this conversation. Top House Democratic Kim Jeffery says talks with his members over the president's future continue. "Our conversations have been candid, comprehensive and clear-eyed and they are ongoing." In a new memo, Biden campaign officials are laying out their rationale, saying no other Democrat would do better against Donald Trump in securing the blue wall of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan that offers the clearest path to a November win. At the NATO summit, Ukrainian President Filodomier Zelensky says the only way to win the war with Russia is to allow them to start firing into Russia. NATO's Jans Stoltenberg is okay with that. "The right of self-defense includes also the right to strike legitimate military targets on the territory of the aggressor, Russia." But President Biden is concerned, the broader use of American-made weaponry could provoke Russia to whiten the war. Stocks finished mixed. The Labor Department says inflation cooled last month for a third straight month, meaning the Fed may soon cut interest rates. Bankrate.com's Mark Hamrick thinks it could happen in September. "We've seen hiring cooling, we've seen unemployment rising, layoffs have basically been flat of late, but the Federal Reserve does not want to keep interest rates at such a high-level work to do real damage to the job mark in the broader economy." Shelley Duvall, the wide-eyed movie star from Texas, featured in the shining Nashville in Popeye, has died of complications from diabetes. She was 75. This is AP News. A labor union power broker is going to prison for bribery and theft. "A former Philadelphia labor leader who wielded significant clout in Pennsylvania politics has been sentenced to six years in prison. He bribed a city council member and stole nearly $600,000 from the union he ran for nearly 30 years. John Doherty was convicted in December of embezzlement, conspiracy, and dozens of other counts in a 2019 indictment. He was accused of using the politically powerful electrician union as his personal bank account and a source for jobs for family and friends. I'm Shelley Epler. Former child actor Benji Gregory has died in Phoenix. He was 46. Gregory played the young boy in the '80s TV sitcom Alf. His sister told the New York Times Gregory's body was found in his car and the parking lot of a bank, the cause of his death is pending. I'm Ed Donohue, AP News.