Headline News from The Associated Press
AP Headline News - Jul 15 2024 15:00 (EDT)
8p News, I'm Jackie Quinn, thousands of Republican delegates and party leaders are gathered at the Pfizer Forum in Milwaukee for the start of the Republican National Convention. And Donald Trump will make his announcement today for Vice President, we're told by Inside Sources. Sources also speaking on condition of anonymity say possible Senator Marco Rubio and North Dakota's governor have been told that they are not being picked. There was a legal victory today for Donald Trump in a Florida federal court, where Judge Alien Cannon, on a technicality, has thrown out the classified documents case. Our Sagar McGonny reports. Trump's lawyers 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. All this, just three days after the former president, survived an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Our Julie Walker has more on the shooter on the rooftop. Butler County Sheriff Michael Sloop says officers had a photo of someone deemed suspicious and were following up. All they were looking for was to identify a suspicious person. Butler was hoisted up and saw the gunman who turned on him. Releases false to the ground, and again what I understand has gone on the radio and said gun gun. The sheriff says there's no way the officer could have confronted the shooter, was able to kill one attendee, injure others, and make an attempt on Trump. I'm Julie Walker. Top EU officials say they will boycott meetings hosted in Hungary because of Victor Orban's outreach to Russia and Chinese leaders, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says there are more signs inflation is dropping down. This is AP News. A heat wave is gripping much of the country. Fierce heat thunderstorms possible hail flash flooding damaging winds. It's all in the forecast somewhere across the nation. But to the Midwest may see thunderstorms, flash flooding, hail and gusty winds today. There may be an isolated tornado or two in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. Thunderstorms are in the forecast across the northeast and the heat. Some places will challenge all-time records. In the southeast, very warm and humid, and the miserable heat wave is continuing along the mid-Atlantic and northeast coast. The temperature could hit 100 degrees in Washington, D.C. today. I'm Rita Folle. For poultry workers in Colorado have been diagnosed with bird flu. The new cases bring the U.S. total to 9. The first human case was detected in 2022. I'm Jackie Quinn, AP News.