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TOP STORIES

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ELECTION-2024-BIDEN — President Joe Biden’s family used a gathering at Camp David to urge him to stay in the race and keep fighting despite his dreadful debate performance, and some members criticized how his staff prepared him for the faceoff, according to four people familiar with the discussions. The gathering was also an exercise in trying to figure out how to quell Democratic anxiety that has exploded following Thursday’s performance. By Colleen Long, Zeke Miller and Thomas Beaumont. SENT: 900 words, photos, audio.

ELECTION 2024-TRUMP-RUNNING MATES — It’s hard to refer to someone as “Hitler” and end up in their good graces, let alone potentially become the person they choose to help lead the country. But Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s shifting position on Donald Trump over the years from one-time critic of the former president to staunch ally is a metamorphosis shared by many of Trump’s potential running mates. By Michelle L. Price. SENT: 1,660 words, photos, video. With ELECTION-2024-VICE-PRESIDENT-VANCE — Republican JD Vance journeys from ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ memoirist to US senator to VP contender — SENT. An abridged version is available.

FRANCE-ELECTION — The far-right National Rally leaped into a strong lead in France’s first round of legislative elections, polling agencies projected, bringing the party closer to being able to form a government in round two and dealing a major slap to centrist President Emmanuel Macron and his risky decision to call the surprise ballot. By John Leicester, Lori Hinnant and Sylvie Corbet. SENT: 1,140 words, photos, videos, audio. With FRANCE-ELECTION-WHAT’S-NEXT — French far right ahead in 1st round of snap elections. Here’s how runoff works and what comes next — SENT.

BOEING-SPIRIT-ACQUISITION — Boeing has announced plans to aquire Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion in an all-stock transaction for the manufacturing firm. Boeing previously owned Spirit and the aerospace company says bringing the supplier back into the Boeing fold would improve plane quality and safety, which has come under increasing scrutiny by regulators, Congress and airlines. SENT: 800 words, photos. With BOEING-JUSTICE-DEPARTMENT — US wants Boeing to plead guilty to fraud over fatal crashes, lawyers say — SENT.

TROPICAL-WEATHER — Hurricane Beryl was closing in on the southeastern Caribbean, and government officials pleaded with people to take shelter from the dangerous Category 3 storm. The storm was expected to make landfall in the Windward Islands on Monday morning. Hurricane warnings were in effect for Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. By Dánica Coto. SENT: 960 words, photos, video, audio.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-RECRUITING-CONVICTS — Ukraine is expanding its military recruiting to cope with battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting Russia’s full-scale invasion. That, for the first time, includes inmates at the country’s prisons and penal colonies. Prisoners can be granted parole after an interview, medical exam, and a review of their conviction, under a new law approved by parliament last month. By Vasilisa Stepanenko, Evgeniy Maloletka and Derek Gatopoulos. SENT: 700 words, photos.

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SPOTLIGHTING VOICES

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EXTREME-HEAT-HOMELESS-MEDICAL-CARE — As temperatures reach triple digits in metro Phoenix, heat illness is especially deadly for people who live outside under the broiling desert sun. Homeless people accounted for nearly half of the 645 people who died last year from heat-related causes in Arizona’s Maricopa County. A Phoenix health care nonprofit has begun a new program this year providing intravenous saline drips to dehydrated homeless people. By Anita Snow. SENT: 1,170 words, photos. This is the Tuesday spotlight.

BOLIVIA-ECONOMY-DISTRUST — Bolivians have been hit hard by economic turmoil in the small South American nation fueled by a longtime hyper-dependence on, and now shortage of, U.S. dollars. The economic downturn has been exacerbated by an ongoing feud between President Luis Arce and his ally-turned-rival former President Evo Morales in the lead-up to next year’s presidential election. Many Bolivians impacted by the crisis have lost trust in Arce, who denies the country is even in an economic crisis. By Megan Janetsky and Paola Flores. SENT: 1,150 words, photos, video.

NIGERIA-ELECTRICITY-ACCESS — The lack of reliable electricity severely affects education and businesses in Nigeria. Schools like Excellent Moral in Ibadan, near Lagos, operate in darkness due to zero grid access, depriving students of essential tools like computers. Nationwide, the power crisis leaves about half the population of more than 200 million without electricity, and frequent outages plague even connected areas. By Taiwo Adebayo. SENT: 1,200 words, photos, video.

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ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

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ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS — Israeli troops carried out an airstrike in the northern West Bank, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding five other people, Palestinian health officials said. SENT: 800 words, photos, video.

ISRAEL-ORTHODOX-DRAFT — Thousands of Jewish ultra-Orthodox men clashed with Israeli police in central Jerusalem during a protest against a Supreme Court order for them to begin enlisting for military service. SENT: 320 words, photos, video.

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR — Drone footage from Ukraine’s military has shown what appears to be bodies in a civilian area in the embattled eastern town of Toretsk, which has come under heavy Russian bombardment in recent days. SENT: 710 words, photos, video.

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GYM-US-TRIALS — Simone Biles headlines a U.S. women’s gymnastics team eyeing redemption at the Paris Olympics. SENT: 1,080 words, photos.

MUSIC-BET-AWARDS — BET Awards 2024: Usher is honored, Will Smith returns, and the election is top of mind. SENT: 1,010 words, photos, audio.

FLORIDA-SHARK-BITE — A man is recovering from a shark bite on the Florida coast in the state’s third attack in a month. SENT: 480 words, photo.

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CAPITOL-RIOT-CONTEMPT — Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon is scheduled to report to a federal prison in Connecticut to serve a four-month sentence on contempt charges for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the U.S. Capitol attack. SENT: 300 words, photo.

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NATIONAL

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CALIFORNIA-CRIME-BALLOT-MEASURE — Top California Democrats have announced their backing for a ballot measure targeting retail theft. State leaders say their plan would increase penalties for shoplifting while avoid putting more people behind bars. SENT: 490 words, photos.

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BRITAIN-ELECTION-JADED-HEARTLAND — A lot of politicians have promised change to voters in Hartlepool, a wind-whipped port town in northeast England. But as British voters prepare to elect a new government Thursday, Hartlepool’s many problems persist. It has higher unemployment, lower pay, shorter life expectancy, more drug deaths and higher crime rates than the country as a whole. SENT: 1,200 words, photos, video.

SOUTH AFRICA-COALITION — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa named a new Cabinet after his African National Congress, the former main opposition party, and nine other parties agreed on the makeup of a coalition government following weeks of haggling. SENT: 520 words, photos.

KOREAS-TENSIONS — North Korea test-fired two ballistic missile but one of them possibly flew abnormally, South Korea’s military said, a day after the North vowed “offensive and overwhelming” responses to a new U.S. military drill with South Korea and Japan. SENT: 600 words, photos. With NORTH-KOREA-KIM’S-PINS — North Koreans are seen wearing Kim Jong Un pins for the first time as his personality cult grows — SENT.

JAPAN-ROCKET — Japan deployed an upgraded Earth observation satellite for disaster response and security after it was launched on a new flagship H3 rocket. SENT: 280 words, photos, video.

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SPORTS

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WIMBLEDON — The 2024 edition of Wimbledon is scheduled to start with defending champion Carlos Alcaraz and past Grand Slam title winners Coco Gauff and Emma Raducanu all set to play in matches at Centre Court. SENT: 140 words, photos.

EURO-2024-BELLINGHAM-ROOSEVELT — As one of the most exciting soccer players in the world, Jude Bellingham’s wonder goal against Slovakia was what many have come to expect from the England star. His decision to mark the occasion by referring to a speech by former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, however, seemed a less likely move from someone who only celebrated his 21st birthday on Saturday. SENT: 320 words, photo.

WORLD-JUNIOR-ASSAULT-EXPLAINER — Four current members of the National Hockey League charged with sexual assault in Canada will become free agents after not receiving qualifying offers from their respective teams. SENT: 790 words, photos.

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Simone Biles smiles after competing in the floor exercise at the United States Gymnastics Olympic Trials on Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

People gather at Republique plaza to protest the far-right National Rally, which came out strongly ahead in first-round legislative elections, Sunday, June 30, 2024, in Paris. France's high-stakes legislative elections propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong but not decisive lead in the first-round vote Sunday, polling agencies projected, dealing another slap to centrist President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

French far right leader Marine Le Pen reacts as she meets supporters and journalists after the release of projections based on the actual vote count in select constituencies , Sunday, June 30, 2024 in Henin-Beaumont, northern France. French voters propelled the far-right National Rally to a strong lead in first-round legislative elections Sunday and plunged the country into political uncertainty, according to polling projections. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Palestinians inspect the destruction following an Israeli operation in Nur Shams refugee camp, near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Palestinian health officials said one person was killed and several wounded during an Israeli operation in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank. Israel frequently operates in the area, saying it is a stronghold of Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men burn trash during a protest against army recruitment in Jerusalem on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Israel's Supreme Court last week ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the army, a landmark ruling seeking to end a system that has allowed them to avoid enlistment into compulsory military service. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

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Former President Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until at least September after the judge agreed Tuesday to weigh the possible impact of a new Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

Trump had been scheduled to face sentencing July 11 on his New York conviction on felony charges of falsifying business records. He denies any wrongdoing.

The postponement sets the sentencing for Sept. 18 at the earliest — if it happens at all, since Trump's lawyers are arguing that the Supreme Court ruling merits not only delaying the sentencing but tossing out his conviction.

The new date is well after this month's Republican National Convention, where Trump is set formally to accept the party’s nomination for president in this year’s race.

September, however, is far closer to Election Day, which could put the issue top-of-mind for voters just as they seriously tune into the race.

There was no immediate comment from Trump's campaign or Manhattan prosecutors, who brought the case.

The delay caps a string of political and legal wins for Trump in recent days, including the Supreme Court's immunity ruling and a debate widely seen as a disaster for Democratic President Joe Biden.

The immunity decision all but closed the door on the possibility that Trump could face trial in his 2020 election interference case in Washington before this November's vote. The timeline in itself is a victory for the former president, who has sought to delay his four criminal cases past the balloting.

An appeals court recently paused a separate election interference case against Trump, in Georgia; no trial date has been set. His federal classified documents case in Florida remains bogged down by pretrial disputes that have resulted in an indefinite cancelation of the trial date.

Monday's Supreme Court ruling granted broad immunity protections to presidents, while also restricting prosecutors from citing any official acts as evidence in trying to prove a president’s unofficial actions violated the law.

Hours after it was issued, Trump’s attorney requested that New York Judge Juan M. Merchan set aside the jury’s guilty verdict and delay the sentencing to consider how the high court’s ruling could affect the hush money case.

Merchan wrote that he'll rule Sept. 6, and the next date in the case would be Sept. 18, “if such is still necessary.”

In their filing Monday, defense attorneys argued that Manhattan prosecutors had placed “highly prejudicial emphasis on official-acts evidence,” including Trump's social media posts and witness testimony about Oval Office meetings.

Prosecutors said before the judge's decision Tuesday that they believed those arguments were “without merit” but that they wouldn't oppose adjourning the sentencing for two weeks as the judge considers the matter.

Trump was convicted May 30 on 34 counts of falsifying business records arising from what prosecutors said was an attempt to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election.

Daniels claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 after meeting him at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. Trump has repeatedly denied that claim, saying at his June 27 debate with Biden: “I didn’t have sex with a porn star.”

Prosecutors said the Daniels payment was part of a broader scheme to buy the silence of people who might have gone public during the campaign with embarrassing stories alleging Trump had extramarital sex. Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels and was later reimbursed by Trump, whose company logged the reimbursements as legal expenses.

Falsifying business records is punishable by up to four years behind bars. Other potential sentences include probation, a fine or a conditional discharge which would require Trump to stay out of trouble to avoid additional punishment. Trump is the first ex-president convicted of a crime.

Associated Press writer Michael R. Sisak contributed from Fort Pierce, Florida.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at 180 Church, June 15, 2024, in Detroit. Former President Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

FILE - In this artist depiction Judge Juan Merchan presides over former President Donald Trump's trial in Manhattan criminal court, April 23, 2024, in New York. Former President Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until Sept. 18. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump enters at a campaign event, June 18, 2024, in Racine, Wis. Former President Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case has been postponed until Sept. 18. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps, File)

FILE - Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks to the media after a jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, May 30, 2024, in New York. Bragg won't oppose delaying former President Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case after the Supreme Court immunity ruling. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Va., Friday, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)