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AP Headline News - Jul 04 2024 14:00 (EDT)
A.P. News. I'm Ed Donny King. The source tells the A.P. some financial backers of President Biden are holding off or canceling upcoming fundraisers. The president is facing backlash within his own party after a very shaky debate performance last week. "I screwed up. I made a mistake. But I learned from my father when you get knocked down just get back up." On the Earl Ingram show in Wisconsin, on civic media, the president says too much is at stake. "We're going to win this election. We're going to just beat Donald Trump. It's like we did in 2020. We're going to beat him again." There is a growing sense the president may have just dazed to make a persuasive case. He is fit for office before Democratic support for him completely evaporates. A Russian-born American received a 12-and-a-half-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. A lawyer representing Robert Woodland in Moscow says Woodland has been sentenced to more than a dozen years in prison for attempting to traffic large amounts of illegal drugs. The lawyer says Woodland has mental health issues and that an appeal of the prison sentence is planned. The state department says it is aware of the case. According to Russian media, Woodland's information matches that of a man now 33 years old who told an interviewer he had gone to Russia to find his "worth mother" because he had been adopted by an American couple in the mid-1990s. I'm Jackie Quinn. Patrick Bertiletti of Chicago ate 58 hot dogs in 10 minutes to win his first men's title at the annual Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island. The reigning men's champ Joey Jaws Chestnut didn't attend this year. Over a sponsorship tiff, he has the record 76 hot dogs eaten. Nikki Sudo of Florida won her 10th title in the women's division. The parent company of Sax Fifth Avenue is going to buy upscale rival Neiman Marcus. This is AP News. A very old home for termites has been found. Researchers at Stellenbosch University say the radio carbon dating, they found some of the mounds to be 34,000 years old and they're still inhabited. They're near the Buffalo's River in Namakwaland. Senior lecturer Michelle Francis says the mounds existed while saber tooth cats and woolly mammoths roamed other parts of the earth. And the mounds are a termite version of an apartment complex, having been consistently inhabited by termite colonies. Francis says the southern harvester termites are experts at capturing and storing carbon by collecting twigs and other dead wood and putting it back deep into the soil. And that has benefits and offsetting climate change by reducing the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere. I'm Donna Warder, a 75 year old American swimmer, took a dip in the Senn River, braving the murky waters in Paris to celebrate the 4th of July. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News. The following is a high five woman from high five casino.com. Welcome to Burger Ify, would you like a high apple pie today? Yes, yes, yes. I won. Woohoo! So that's a yes on the apple pie. I just went big time playing high five to see all my phones, real cash prizes, free daily rewards, over 1200 games. Woohoo! So yes or no on the apple pie. Woohoo! Ha ha ha! I won again! I'll take that as a yes, drive around. Have you had your high five moment today? Only at high five casino.com. High five casino is a social casino, no purchase necessary. We're prohibited, play responsibly, condition supplies, see website for details.