Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Jul 02 2024 07:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Falle. Former President Trump wants the verdict in his Hush Money Criminal trial set aside. This just hours after a historic Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. The AP's Jennifer King on what his lawyers are doing. The letter to Judge Juan Marchan seeks permission to file a motion and asks him to delay Trump's July 11th sentencing. While he weighs how the High Court's decision could influence the New York case, Trump's lawyers argue that the Supreme Court confirmed their position that some evidence, like Trump's social media posts about Michael Cohen, should have been precluded because they constituted official presidential acts. Last year, a U.S. federal judge denied Trump's bid to move the trial, ruling that the evidence suggests the allegations of falsifying business records pertain to Trump's personal life and do not "reflect in any way the color of the president's official duties." Monday's Supreme Court ruling delays Trump's election interference trial in Washington and all but rules out a trial before the election. Jennifer King, Washington. President Biden's talking about Donald Trump and that Supreme Court ruling granting presidents brought immunity from prosecution. Now the American people have to do what the court should have been willing to do, but will not. The American people have to render a judgment about Donald Trump's behavior. He's calling on Americans to think carefully about who they will vote for in November's election. Hurricane barrel is crossing islands in the Southeastern Caribbean as a category five storm. The National Hurricane Center's Eric Blake. We expect a storm to begin to lose some strength later today, but we've still expected to be a powerful hurricane when it affects your make on Wednesday. And Israeli strike has killed at least nine people in Khan Yunus, the city in Gaza. That's according to Palestinian health officials. If you're traveling for the holiday, gas is $350 a gallon this morning, up about three cents in a week, says the AAA. A year ago, it was 3 53. This is AP News. Gang violence in Haiti is affecting hundreds of thousands of children. The AP's Donna Warder. The UN Children's Agency UNICEF says gang violence has uprooted more than 300,000 children in Haiti. Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who've become homeless in the last four months. UNICEF's executive director, Catherine Russell, says the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before our eyes is taking a devastating toll on children. The UN says gangs now control at least 80% of the capital port of Preds and the key roads leading in and out of the city. More than 2,500 people were killed or injured across the country in the first three months of this year. The agency says many children are living in makeshift shelters and they're having to live in poor unsanitary conditions, including at their schools, is placing them at risk for disease. I'm Donna Warder. And I'm Rita Foley, AP News.