Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Jul 15 2024 20:00 (EDT)
AP News, I'm Ben Thomas. The Republican National Convention helps Speaker Mike Johnson making it official. Pursuant to Rule 40(d) of the rules of the Republican Party, I formally declare President Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance as the Republican nominees for President and Vice President of the United States. The federal judge in Florida has dismissed Donald Trump's classified documents case, Sakamagani has details. His lawyers had asked Judge Eileen Cannon to throw out the case, arguing Special Counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed. Cannon, a Trump appointee, agreed. It's a stunning and abrupt end to a prosecution that had been seen from the start as the most perilous of all the legal threats Trump faced. Since the attempted killing of the ex-President, some Republicans have blamed President Biden and demanded prosecutors drop all four criminal cases against Trump, including one in which he's been convicted, Sagar Magani at the White House. After Saturday's assassination attempt on the former President, the FBI is still trying to determine a motive, Liam Campbell is a neighbor of Thomas Matthew Crooks, who's been identified as the shooter. He sat by himself, didn't talk to anyone, didn't even try to make conversation. So it was just kind of odd, he was an odd kid, but I didn't like have any issues with them or anything. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says adjustments are being made to the security details assigned to the candidates and... In light of this weekend's events, the President has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy's running as an independent, and while considered a long shot, his campaign events have drawn large crowds. On Wall Street, the S&P gained 0.3 percent and the NASDAQ rose 0.4 percent, both just shy of all-time highs. While the Dow did hit a record, adding 210 points. This is AP News. Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, and Jackie Quinn reports it's not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago. In the 1969 moonwalk, Neil Armstrong described the surface of the moon, and now a research team from Italy has found evidence of a sizable cave located at the Sea of Tranquility. It's about 250 miles from where Apollo 11 landed. The scientists say the pit was created by the collapse of a lava tube, and they estimate it's 130 feet wide and 10 yards long. They also think there are hundreds more caves and tunnels like it, which probably could be used to house future visitors to the moon. I'm Jackie Quinn.