Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Jul 10 2024 14:00 (EDT)
A.P. News. I'm Ed Donahue. In The New York Times, George Clooney focused on President Biden's age when he said it's time for Biden to leave the race. Clooney says he loves the president, but with him as the nominee, Democrats will lose the White House in Congress. Meantime, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC. It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. Pelosi has been widely watched for signals of how top Democrats are thinking about the Biden campaign. The president spoke at the NATO summit in Washington. For 75 years, our nations have grown and prospered behind the NATO shield. Today, we're stronger than we've ever been. Leaders say Ukraine is on an irreversible path to NATO membership once the war with Russia is over. Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial has started in New Mexico. The A.P.'s Margie Zara Letter reports he's charged in the shooting death of a cinematographer on a movie set. Special prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson says in opening statements that Alec Baldwin violated the cardinal rules of safety on the set of the movie Rust that led to Helena Hutchins being shot to death. You will see him using this gun as a pointer to point at people, to point at things. Baldwin attorney Alex Spiro says in opening statements, Baldwin's job was to act and it was the job of others to make things safe. On this movie set, there were people responsible for ensuring the safety of the set in the firearm. Those people failed in their duties, but Alec Baldwin committed no crime. Baldwin faces up to 18 months in prison if convicted. I'm Margie Zara Letter. At MS-13 gang leader pleaded guilty in a case involving eight murders, including the deaths of two girls on Long Island. Police in Britain say they found the suspect in the crossbow killing of the wife and two daughters of a BBC radio racing commentator, John Hunt. This is AP News. A year after catastrophic flooding hit parts of Vermont, some people are still recovering. Here's the AP's Julie Walker. Lisa Edson Navo and her two teenage sons live in their gutted, flood-rect Montpelier home with torn-out walls and floors and a missing ceiling. It's been the battle of the insurance companies and the adjusters and the city and the state and FEMA and the federal government, and nothing is in line with anything else. The family in limbo, the city is still determining which houses it can elevate and when. Mayor Jack McCullough. In a lot of ways, Montpelier is still showing the scars and showing the damage from the flood. I'm Julie Walker and a year later, most of the downtown buildings and businesses in the Vermont capital of Montpelier have reopened. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News. An official message from Medicare. A new law is helping me save more money on prescription drug costs. Maybe you can save too. With Medicare's extra help program, my premium is zero and my out-of-pocket costs are low. Who should apply? Single people making less than $23,000 a year or married couples who make less than $31,000 a year. Even if you don't think you qualify, it pays to find out. Go to ssa.gov/extrahelp. Paid for by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. After countless steps and more than a few miles, her dog drives you forward one last time to make that final climb and his the rising sun peeks out from the horizon. You know, incredible happens here because it starts here with a fuel that makes it all possible. Proplan Sport. Discover advanced nutrition made to fuel strength and stamina and active dogs like yours at proplan sport.com. So the quarterly projections are in the red area there and these numbers, I guess, should be higher. This doesn't make any sense. Wait, you're not even our finance director. Who are you? Oh, I'm the delivery driver. Anyone over the noodle bowl? We need a receptionist. No, we need sign-in app. From managing visitors to risk reduction and office scheduling, trust sign-in app for your confident workplace, cloud secure with app convenience, sign-in app keeps your office and business on track. Start for free at signinapp.com. 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.