Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Jul 04 2024 07:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Fallaway. It's July 4th. Fireworks, cookouts, parades, and dangerous heat says the weather service across parts of the South, the Mid-Atlantic, and the West. There'll be no fireworks for at least one town in Northern California as firefighters battle a wildfire. Some 26,000 residents of Oroville, California are displaced as hundreds of firefighters battle the blaze under extreme heat. The Thompson fire broke out before noon Tuesday, about 70 miles north of Sacramento. Growing to more than five and a half square miles, Mayor David Pittman says there was a significant drop in fire activity on Wednesday. And he's hopeful that some residents could soon return home. I'm Donna Warder. Some believe President Biden only has a few days to prove that he's up to the challenge of the presidential race before anxiety in the Democratic Party boils over. After that rocky debate last week, the AP's Ben Thomas. As even close allies discuss how Democrats might come up with a new presidential candidate, President Biden met with more than 20 Democratic governors. It was honest. It was candid. Maryland Governor Westmore. We were honest about the feedback that we were getting. We were honest about the concerns that we were hearing from people. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says Democrats need to know Biden's up to it. We're worried we're worried because of the threat of a Trump presidency is not theoretical for governors. We've served when Donald Trump was president and the threats to our nation were real. The upshot says more as the president continue to tell us and show us that he was all in, that we said that we would stand with him. Ben Thomas, Washington, at least seven deaths blamed on hurricane barrel, which has been rumbling through the southeastern Caribbean. It's taking aim at Mexico now. Police in Australia have found the remains of a 12-year-old girl days after she was snatched by a crocodile while swimming in a creek. They're trying to trap the crocodile. This is AP News. There's concern for prisoners in Louisiana working in brutal heat. A federal judge has ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson says they face substantial risk of injury or death in blistering summer temperatures. The judge gave the state seven days to provide a plan to improve conditions at Louisiana state penitentiary. The state immediately appealed that decision. The order comes amid growing nationwide attention on prison labor, a practice that has evolved into a multi-billion dollar industry. Men incarcerated at the Louisiana Penitentiary filed a class action lawsuit last year alleging cruel and unusual punishment and forced labor in the prisons' fields. I'm Lisa Dwyer and I'm Rita Foley, AP News.