Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Jul 01 2024 05:00 (EDT)
This is AP News, I'm Rita Folle. Hurricane Baral has been closing in on the southeastern Caribbean officials pleading with people there to take shelter from the dangerous storm. Landfall was expected in the Windward Islands. President Biden's family reportedly is urging him to stay in the race despite that debate performance that has even some Democrats worried. And there's more, says the AP's Jackie Quinn. Some members on a Democratic National Committee Conference call this weekend are telling the Associated Press their leadership is largely ignoring Biden's week showing Thursday night and feel they're being told to ignore the dire nature of the party's predicament. Some party strategists and donors are calling for the 81-year-old Biden to step aside. But Georgia Senator Rafael Warnock says Biden should stay in. "America is better or whole lot better than Donald Trump. And we've had a primary, it's our job, to demonstrate that the world is watching and our children are counting on us to get this right." He spoke on NBC's Meet the Press where Donald Trump supporter Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota says the President's weakness was obvious. "All of America saw it and you knew well saw it, our adversary saw it, Putin saw it." I'm Jackie Quinn. Trump ally Steve Bannon is scheduled to report to a federal prison in Connecticut today. He'll serve a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack. The celebration of LGBTQ+ pride reached a grand finale on Sunday with revelers at parades in cities including New York. Toby Regan was there. "I think it's really important for everyone to come together and celebrate everybody and how different everybody is. We're unified by our sexuality." Millions of Americans are traveling this week for the July 4th holiday. This is AP News. Inside Out 2 is the number one weekend movie, but another movie is making a big splash. "A Quiet Place Day 1 is making noise at the box office." "Arnold!" The prequel earned an estimated $53 million in its first weekend in North American theaters. That's according to studio estimates. The same cannot be said for Kevin Costner's self-finance film Horizon in American Saga, Chapter 1, which only debuted at $11 million. Day 1 also missed out on number one by a hair. That title went again to Disney and Pixar's Juggernaut Inside Out 2, which made an estimated $57.4 million in its third weekend in theaters. I'm Hey up and Joining. WestJet canceled hundreds of flights it said yesterday because of a strike by plane mechanics. It's Canada's second largest airline. I'm Rita Foley, AP News.