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AP Headline News - Jul 04 2024 20:00 (EDT)
AP News and Bentomas, blanketing cookouts and fireworks this July 4th excessive heat around 134 million people under alerts, Mark Schonard at the National Weather Service. The highest above average is the West Coast. So those temperatures in California and Oregon, some of those are running, you know, 15 close to 20 degrees above average for the time of year. And they said, why are reports gun violence? Two women in a home in Chicago, a police officer serving a warrant in Cleveland and an armed person making threats in Yellowstone National Park are among people who have been killed in shootings this year on the 4th of July. The holiday is historically one of the nation's deadliest days of the year. Violence and mass shootings often increase in the summer months with more people gathering for social events teens out of school and hotter temperatures. Three boys ages 8, 7 and 5 were also wounded in the shooting in Chicago, which police say resulted from a potential personal dispute. I'm Lisa Deweyer, President Biden took to the radio today to state his case for staying in the presidential race. 90 minute on stage is does not erase what I've done for three and a half years in a radio interview with Andrea Loffel Sanders for the source on Philadelphia's independently black owned W.U.R.D. radio. Biden says the stakes extend beyond his own political prospects. The next president of the United States, by the way, is going to be able to appoint at least two more justices in a four-year period. Maybe more. Imagine what that does in the Supreme Court. There's a growing sense that Biden may have just days to make a persuasive case that he's fit for office before Democratic support for him evaporates completely. The president will campaign in Wisconsin on Friday and sit for an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos that will air as a primetime special Friday evening, Jennifer King, Washington. In Britain, an exit poll suggests a landslide victory for the Labor Party and the parent company of Sex Fifth Avenue is buying Neiman Marcus. This is AP News. No debate to decide this contest. It's all about how many hot dogs a person can choke down in 10 minutes. Three, two, one, go. The countdown on ESPN for the annual Nathan's famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest on Coney Island and the winner. I was able to unlock something that I don't know where it came from. Thirty nine year old Patrick Bertaletti of Chicago, he wolfed down the winning 58 hot dogs during the 10 minute contest. Bertaletti says knowing the perennial winner Joey Chestnut wasn't competing this year provided new motivation. I lost some weight, just lots of work and I just there was an urgency with Joey not here. I knew I had a shot. Women's defending champ Mickey pseudo of Florida, chowing down 51 hot dogs, clenching the title and the $10,000 prize. I'm Jackie Quinn. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News. Thanks for listening.