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AP Headline News - Jul 04 2024 21:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas. An exit poll suggests Britain's Labour parties headed for a landslide victory after 14 years of economic and political upheaval under conservative governments and had met on at King's College London says. We've got used to politics as pantomime, a very unstable Conservative party with lots of infighting, with lots of ministerial churn, with no stability. I think we're going to have to get used again to relatively stable government, with ministers staying in power for quite a long time, and with government able to think beyond the very short term. In US politics, concerns simmering among Democrats over President Biden's re-election bid, sources tell AP after his disastrous debate, some financial backers were holding off or cancelling fundraisers. But California Governor Gavin Newsom's among those voicing support. We're all in this together. We're all better off, and we're all better off. It's Joe Biden, character, decency, delivering not on promises and promotion, but delivering results. After leaving at least nine people dead in a trail of destruction across the eastern Caribbean, Hurricane barrels chugging toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula at category two strength. We expected to emerge over the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm and re-intensify and turn northwestward on a course towards northeastern Mexico and possibly portions of the Texas coast. We're talking four to five days before the storm would get there. 134 million Americans have been under heat alerts, Mark Sinard at the National Weather Service. The heat in the west, in particular, looks to persist through the week, and if you look at the extended outlooks, the overall pattern favors above normal temperatures even going out a couple of weeks from now. In northern California, crews have been making progress against the Thompson fire near the city of Aravil, containment at 7%. It's burned more than five and a half square miles, and 100 degree temperatures aren't helping. This is AP News. The executive director of the International Swimming Federation has been summoned as a witness in the U.S. investigation into doping and swimming. In 2021, nearly two dozen Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance, but they were allowed to continue competing in Tokyo. At the U.S. capital this spring, the FBI and Justice Department were asked to investigate by a House Committee on China. The swimming world's governing body, World Aquatics, tells the Associated Press its executive director Brent Noicki has been subpoenaed to testify. This move comes just weeks before the Paris Olympic start. Eleven of the Chinese swimmers who tested positive are again set to compete. I'm Jackie Quinn. And ahead of the Paris Olympics, a 75-year-old American swimmer took a 4th of July dip in the Sen River to highlight clean-up efforts. I'm Ben Thomas, AP News.