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AP Headline News - Jul 02 2024 15:00 (EDT)
AP News. I'm Ed Donoghue. A Democrat is stepping up to respond to President Biden showing during last week's presidential debate. The AP's soccer McGonney is at the White House. Lloyd Doggett is the first to publicly state what many have been privately whispering, saying the president should make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw after last week's debate performance. Doggett's explosive statement came minutes after former House speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC it's legitimate to question whether the president's halting showing was just an episode or a condition. ABC says President Biden will be interviewed by George Stephanopoulos Friday. Emergency room doctors have been told by the Biden administration they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman's health. Ruling by the Supreme Court last week failed to settle a legal dispute over whether state abortion bans override a federal law requiring hospitals to provide stabilizing treatment. Prosecutors in Manhattan say they would not oppose Donald Trump's request to delay next week's sentencing in his hush money trial. After yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that granted broad immunity protections to presidents, Trump is looking to have his New York convictions overturned. Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman doesn't think the ruling will impact this case. What Trump did in in seeking to get, you know, some of Daniel's story quashed would have nothing to do with any official acts, any engaging while in the president. The Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly's Casunla for mild or early cases of dementia caused by Alzheimer's. Taiwan says the Chinese Coast Guard boarded a Taiwanese fishing boat before steering it to a port in mainland China and demanded Beijing release the vessel. A judge blasted efforts by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to close one of the oldest and largest migrant shelters on the Mexico border. This is AP news. UN human rights experts say Russia violated international laws by putting in prison American reporter Evan Gerschkevich and he should be released immediately. The working group on arbitrary detention said there was a striking lack of any factual or legal substantiation for spine charges leveled against the 32 year old journalist. The group said his nationality has been a factor in his detention. And as a result, the case against him was discriminatory. Gershkevich went on trial behind closed doors last week. He was arrested on March 29th of last year while on a reporting trip on espionage charges that he and his employer and the US government vehemently deny. I'm Julie Walker. A Colorado man was sentenced to 60 years in prison for setting a fire that killed a Sangalese family of five in 2020. I'm Ed Donahue, AP News.