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AP Headline News - Jul 04 2024 15:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ed Donoghue, President Biden spoke to some radio hosts to say he's staying in the race for President. On W.R.D. radio in Philadelphia, the President said a bad 90 minutes during last week's debate shouldn't erase what he has done over the last three plus years. I'm letting our economy back from the brink. It's still improving. Lower prescription drug costs, you know, work with republics, expand veterans' health care, rally. Fifteen nations are standing against Putin, proud of the record, and we just kind of keep moving. St. Anselm's University Political Science Professor Chris Galdari in New Hampshire says there is too much uncertainty. We're seeing leaks about, oh, good days and bad days. Oh, we know what time he's at peak efficiency, you know, that sort of thing. And that's something that there's been a very tight lid on prior to this debate. I do think it is striking and raises a lot of concern. Discussions that were once a whisper around who should step into the president's place should he bow out are now growing louder. This is Election Day in Britain and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's conservative party is in line for a big loss. On the 4th of July, around 134 million people around the country are under some kind of heat alert. Temperatures are expected to top 100 degrees along both coasts. It's very hot in Northern California as wildfires burn north of Sacramento. The damage is done in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean from Hurricane Beryl. Jack Bevin at the National Hurricane Center was asked where it will go next. The biggest immediate threat and help the storm is moving away from the Cayman Islands is the landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula, which is expected late tonight or early Friday morning. Beryl has weakened to category two. Authorities say an armed person who was making unspecified threats at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming died and a park ranger is in stable condition following an exchange of gunfire. This is AP News. Israel's cabinet is set to convene to discuss Hamas's latest response to a US-backed proposal for a phased ceasefire in Gaza. Also, fighting has resumed in the Middle East. The Lebanon-based Hezbollah group says it's launched over 200 rockets at several military bases in Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed one of its senior commanders. After this latest attack, Israeli defense forces struck several towns in Southern Lebanon, where local news outlets say at least one person is dead. In the Lebanese town of Shiba, civil defense workers try to extinguish fires from the Israeli bombardment. The Hezbollah strike is one of the largest attacks during the month's long conflict along the Lebanon-Israel border. I'm Naon Kim. The US' rallied world support behind a plan that would see the release of all of the scores of hostages, still held by Hamas, in return for a lasting truce and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News.