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AP Headline News - Jul 04 2024 05:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Folle. Happy fourth. Americans are gathering on this fourth of July for cookouts, parades and fireworks. Millions expected to shatter travel records. In Philadelphia, descendants of the signers of the Declaration of Independence will ring the Liberty Bell. Much of the nation's still sweltering, though, in fierce heat. Records could shatter in the West. Dangerous heat expected across the South and the Mid-Atlantic right into the weekend. Says the National Weather Service. The AP's Donna Warder on a fierce wildfire in Northern California. Some 26,000 residents of Orville, 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. Hurricane Beryl Zion, Mexico, the AP's Jennifer King, with the latest. Hurricane Beryl brought fierce winds and heavy rain to Jamaica on Wednesday. The U.S. Hurricane Center says the storm could reach Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula late Thursday or Friday. President Biden reportedly has told his staff nobody is going to push him out of the race for the White House. Despite worries about that disastrous debate performance last week, the AP's Ben Thomas with this story. 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 continued to tell us and show us that he was all in. That we said that we would stand with him. Ben Thomas Washington. This is AP News. General Motors has to pay millions in penalties. The AP's Lisa Dwyer. General Motors will pay nearly $146 million in penalties to the federal government because 5.9 million of its older vehicles do not comply with emissions and fuel economy standards. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the issue involves GM pickup trucks and SUVs from the 2012 through 2018 model years. The EPA says the affected vehicles will remain on the road and cannot be repaired. But say that those GM vehicles on average consume at least 10% more fuel than the window sticker number says. The company, however, will not be required to reduce the miles per gallon on those stickers. GM says the problem stems from a change in testing procedures that the EPA put in place in 2016. I'm Lisa Dwyer. And I'm Rita Foley, AP News.