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AP Headline News - Jul 01 2024 20:00 (EDT)
Ify News. I'm Ben Thomas. Former President Trump is calling it a big win. The Supreme Court ruled in the federal election interference case against him, saying former presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for official acts, but not private actions. Send me the case back to lower courts to sort through the allegations. Alan Morrison at George Washington University Law School. I would say that the case is definitely not over. The government has a lot in its indictment that it can prove and will suffice to convict Trump if proven. On the other hand, it's a hundred percent clear that that's not going to happen anytime soon. And for Donald Trump, that's probably as big a victory as he cares about right now. He'll worry about the trial if that happens, which will only happen, I think, if he is not reelected. President Biden's debate performance last week has some Democrats questioning his re-election bid, but Joey Campaletti reports Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is insisting Biden can still win her state. Whitmer said that she is a hundred percent still behind Biden and that she believes the state is still winnable in his re-election campaign, denying a report released earlier Monday by Politico. Whitmer is Biden's campaign co-chair and has been a vocal supporter of his since his 2020 presidential run. Whitmer has also been among a number of national Democrats who have come out publicly to support Joe Biden after disappointing debate performance last week. Hurricane barrels battering the southeastern Caribbean, Grenada's Prime Minister Dejan Mitchell. It is a category four, very strong, almost borderline category five. Hurricane. The expectation is that the damage in kayak when PT Martinik is going to be extreme. Hurricane conditions could reach Jamaica Wednesday. And in Maine, a man who confessed to killing his parents and two of their friends and wounding three people in a highway shooting has pleaded guilty to murder and other charges. A judge sentenced him to the maximum life in prison. This is AP News. The Israeli Army's ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from much of Gaza's second largest city, Khan Yunus, a sign that a new assault is likely and that Hamas has regrouped there. Meantime, Charles Della Desma reports Gaza's in the midst of a water crisis. Families gather around trucks and water tanks in Khan Yunus Gaza to connect their share of drinking water. Young children climb on a truck to try to get water into their containers first, while others sit under the truck to collect whatever drops fall. Displaced Palestinian Ism El Gaya says he had to wait from sunrise to sunset for one leader of drinking water to share with 16 people. The crowds around the trucks grow larger as more Palestinians displaced in Israel's ongoing war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip arrive in the area. I'm Charles Della Desma. And I'm Ben Thomas, AP News. Thanks for listening.