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AP Headline News - Jul 02 2024 06:00 (EDT)
This is AP News. I'm Rita Falle. President Biden says Donald Trump will now be more emboldened to do whatever he wants if he wins the White House in November, saying last night. "Today's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed for all practical purposes. Today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits what a president can do." The Supreme Court ruling grants presidents brought immunity from prosecution. AP Washington correspondent Sagar Magani. The Supreme Court's six conservative justices handed Donald Trump a major win in his immunity case, and the three liberals ripped their decision. Sonia Sotomayor shook her head, gritted her teeth, and strongly pronounced each word, reading her dissent aloud from the bench. She called the decision "utterly indefensible," one that effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, whom she says is now a king above the law. In a dissent joined by Alaina Kagan and Kontanji Brown Jackson, Sotomayor wrote, "ironic, isn't it? The man in charge of enforcing the laws can now just break them." Chief Justice John Roberts says the ruling does not put presidents above the law, accusing the three liberals of "fearmongering." Sagar Magani, Washington. Donald Trump's lawyers have now sent a letter to the judge in his hush-money case. They want permission to file a motion to set aside the verdict. Hurricane barrels been crossing islands in the Southeastern Caribbean as a category five storm. Marcia Clark-Jones owns a shop in Barbados. She's stunned by what she's seeing. "I think that the damage would be so much." Israel's ordering Palestinians out of much of Khan Yunus, the city in Gaza, a sign of a possible new assault ahead. This is AP News. "Now to the Poop Museum. No, really. The AP's Jackie Quinn has this." Here's an interesting place in Arizona to take the kids this summer vacation. "This is the Poosium. It's the world's largest collection of fossilized poop. Everything from the largest copper light from a Tyrannosaur all the way down to a little termite." George Franson created the Poosium, with some 7,000 specimens. One believed to have come from a Tyrannosaurus rex. He says they're full of biological information. "Prehistoric animal diet, physiology, environment, and animal interactions." The Poosium is located on Route 66 in Williams, Arizona. I'm Jackie Quinn. If you're traveling for the fourth, the best time to hit the road is in the morning, according to Enrichs, the data provider. I'm Rita Foley, AP News.