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AP Headline News - Jul 11 2024 13:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ed Donahue, President Biden wraps up the NATO Summit in Washington later today with the solo news conference. It comes as the calls by Democrats get louder for the president to end his reelection bid. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says NATO leaders are not worried about the president. What I have heard as they went around the table yesterday in the North Atlantic Health session, the session just with the NATO allies, was a drumbeat of praise for the United States. We're also President Biden personally for what he's done to strengthen NATO, especially as president but also over the course of his entire career. Senate Democrats like Rhode Island Sheldon White House are meeting today to talk about what the president should do. I am going to hold off until we've had this conversation where they will discuss that exact point. A Biden campaign memo says winning the blue wall states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan is the clearest path to victory in November. The House rejected a GOP attempt to find Attorney General Merrick Garland $10,000 a day until he turns over audio of President Biden's interview in his classified documents case. Her publicist says Shelley Duvall has died of complications of diabetes in Texas. She was 75. Here's the AP's Margie Zaraletta. Boy, was he a genius. He was beautiful too. He had hair out to hair. Shelley Duvall did not intend to become an actor, but her life changed when she met filmmaker Robert Altman at a party and he cast her in Brewster McCloud. Altman loved Duvall so much he cast her in his films Popeye, Nashville and Three Women. Duvall also was known for playing Wendy Torrance in The Shining, opposite Jack Nicholson and for recurring roles in Time Bandits. She later ventured into children's television with Tall Tales and Legends and Fairy Tale Theater. She had retired from acting in the early 2000s but had accepted small roles in recent years. These are a letter. The Israeli army is acknowledging failures on the day of the Hamas attack in October. This is AP News. A funeral was held for a doctor killed at a hospital in Ukraine. Family members, colleagues and friends come to say their last goodbyes to 52-year-old Adonis clinic doctor Victor Bracuzzo, one of seven people killed at the medical facility after a deadly wave of Russian attacks. Alia Shabanovich, a doctor at the clinic, remembers sister party colleague as optimistic, kind and humble despite his seniority. Shabanovich was there on Monday. Suddenly I heard an explosion. Everything went down in my office. I fell down. Then I went out and in the corridor I saw everything was destroyed. Bracuzzo's open casket stands in the clinic grounds, a few yards from the blast site where he lost his life. Mona's standing line to say their individual farewells weeping and hugging and follow the casket on the doctor's last journey. 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