Notices by Steve Herman (w7voa@journa.host), page 13

USA Today - VP Kamala Harris could narrowly beat Donald Trump in November, according to a new national poll from a Democratic pollster. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/09/harris-beat-trump-poll-biden/74333759007/

"If innocent children are murdered; if innocent children die, it is heart-wrenching," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tells Russian President Vladimir Putin a day after a children's hospital in Kyiv was hit amid a wave of strikes by Russia. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-in-russia-pm-modi-vladimir-putin-bilateral-india-russia-cooperation-in-energy-sector-helped-world-as-well-pm-to-putin-6067596#pfrom=home-ndtv_topscroll

Prosecutors open an inquiry into the campaign financing of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s 2022 presidential bid. https://www.liberation.fr/societe/police-justice/campagne-presidentielle-de-marine-le-pen-le-rn-vise-par-une-information-judiciaire-pour-financement-illegal-en-2022-20240709_Q3B4DNCBBFDJJAFKWVZDY7BGPM/

Russian missile attacks have hit a children's hospital in Kyiv and killed at least 10 people elsewhere in Ukraine. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/35470

ABC's George Stephanopoulos asks Biden what all his work over the past 3.5 years has cost him physically and mentally.
"It cost me a really me a really bad night, a bad run," Biden replies, adding to a followup he's still in good shape and he's not frail.

Top Democrats say he should stay in the race, according to Biden but if the "Lord Almighty came down" and told him to get out of the race, he would.

Here’s the transcript of today’s ABC interview with President Biden: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-news-anchor-george-stephanopoulos-exclusive-interview-biden/story?id=111695695

"The vast majority" of Democrats don't want him to drop out, says President Biden.

The new British prime minister declares "dead and buried" his predecessor's plan that would have sent some asylum seekers to Rwanda. https://news.sky.com/story/pm-to-visit-all-four-nations-of-uk-and-announces-mission-delivery-boards-to-drive-change-13174119

"It was a bad episode," Biden says in ABC News interview to air this evening. "No indication of any serious condition. I was exhausted. I didn't listen to my instincts in terms of preparing and -- and a bad night." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exhausted-bad-episode-biden-doubles-debate-explanations-abc/story?id=111695168

"I just had a bad night, I don't know why," President Biden says of his debate performance. "I realized that I just wasn't in control."

"No cuts, no edits" in the 22-minute taped interview ABC TV News has conducted with President Biden, which is airing now.

"Trump is a pathological liar," says Biden in ABC TV interview. "The man is a congenital liar" who lied more than 20 times during their most recent debate. "This is a guy who told us to put bleach in our arms."

Polls are closed in the UK and the Labour Party is set for a landslide victory. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn09xn9je7lt

President Biden, at a 4th of July White House BBQ for military service members and their families, makes brief remarks, reading off a teleprompter: "We stand for freedom again, we stand for democracy." He mentions Trump, as president, not visiting a World War I American cemetery in France before concluding that "we have to remember who the hell we are -- the United States of America."

Brazil's federal police have reportedly indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds he received from Saudi Arabia during his time in office. https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2024/07/pf-indicia-bolsonaro-e-outras-11-pessoas-em-investigacao-sobre-venda-de-joias.shtml

President Biden welcomed Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision "to authorize his negotiators to engage with U.S., Qatari, and Egyptian mediators in an effort to close out the deal." - White House

Israeli media reporting a Netanyahu-Biden phone call. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-809001

Biden campaign accuses Heritage Foundation’ Project 2025 leader of inciting violence for declaring: “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” https://americasvoice.news/video/WttAoA7Ya7L0FaN/

On AJE’s Inside Story today discussing the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling. https://aje.io/vz4sih