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AP Headline News - Jul 04 2024 13:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ed Donoughue. President Biden is opening a critical stretch in his campaign after last week's debate. 90 minute on stage, this does not erase what I've done for three and a half years. In a radio interview with Andrea Lawful Sanders for the source on Philadelphia's independently black-owned W.R.D. radio, Biden says the stakes extend beyond his own political prospects. This is the most important election because 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 to 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. Out of the record, and we just got to keep moving. 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. The Israelsis Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to send negotiators to resume Gaza's ceasefire talks. An Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group says the government has approved plans to build nearly 5,300 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank. A Russian-born U.S. citizen Robert Woodland was convicted in Moscow of drug-related charges and sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison. There is destruction in Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean from a powerful hurricane barrel. Jack Bevanit, the National Hurricane Center, says barrel is weakened. Where does it go next? 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. Barrel damage, George, destroyed 95 percent of homes in a pair of islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Voters in Britain are picking a new government in a parliamentary election that is widely expected to bring the opposition labor party to power. This is AP News. The executive director of the International Swimming Federation has been summoned as a witness to testify in the U.S. investigation into doping and swimming. Back 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. Capitol 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 Nawiki has been subpoenaed to testify. This move comes just weeks before the Paris Olympics start. Eleven of the Chinese swimmers who tested positive are again set to compete. I'm Jackie Quinn. Around 134 million people are under alerts around the country today for extremely dangerous and record-breaking heat. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News.