5 Things To Know For Your New Day-Tuesday July 10th

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Kavanaugh pick was scripted end to Trump’s reality show:

For all his bluster and choreographed suspense, President Donald Trump’s blockbuster Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh was all but locked in from the start

Of course, the President put on a show for the cameras, materializing before a national TV audience Monday night at the White House to end a selection process he had spooled out for nearly two weeks.

He was there, as promised, to entrust his presidential legacy and the hopes of conservatives everywhere to a nominee who would emerge from obscurity to inherit the considerable power to redraw the ideological balance of the Supreme Court for a generation.

But two people close to the selection process said that Kavanaugh, a political operative turned DC Appeals Court judge had been one of the favorites in Trump’s mind even before Anthony Kennedy announced he would vacate the nation’s top bench last month.

Thai rescue: Hopes high 4 boys, coach will be freed from cave Tuesday:

Divers who have descended into a flooded cave in northern Thailand plan to rescue the four remaining boys and their soccer coach in a third and final mission Tuesday, the mission’s rescue commander said.

Nineteen divers entered the cave at 10 a.m. local time (11 p.m. Monday ET) and will navigate the tunnels to bring out five members of the Wild Boar soccer team, as well as four experts who have been by their side more or less constantly since they were found early last week.

“I hope all four kids… the coach, and the doctor and three SEALs will be all out today,” Former Chiang Rai governor and rescue mission commander Narongsak Osotthanakorn told reporters Tuesday.

Eight of the 12 boys trapped within the flooded cave were taken out during the first two days of rescue operations. They’re now recovering in hospital and are said to be “healthy.”

J.M. Smucker is offloading the Pillsbury Doughboy and other baking brands.

The company — known for products like Smucker’s jam, Jif peanut butter and Folgers coffee — announced Monday that it would sell its baking business to private equity firm Brynwood Partners for $375 million

The deal includes the Pillsbury, Hungry Jack, Martha White, White Lily and Jim Dandy brands, Smucker (SJM)said in a statement.

The move comes during a period of turmoil for big food brands, which are facing challenges navigating shoppers’ changing tastes.

Smucker’s CEO, Mark Smucker, said selling the baking business will help the more than 120-year-old company focus on bolstering its pet food, coffee and snack offerings.

A New Jersey woman on oxygen dies after the power company shuts off her electricity:

A New Jersey grandmother who depended on an electric-powered oxygen tank to breathe died hours after power was cut off to her home, family members say.

The family of Linda Daniels, 68, acknowledge they were behind payments on the PSE&G power bill. But Daniels’ son showed CNN affiliate News 12 New Jersey bank records showing he paid the company $500 two days before power was shut off last Thursday.

Temperatures that day in Newark, where Daniels lived, were as high as 91.

“We were getting ice and putting ice on her, fanning her, trying to make it cool, but we couldn’t pump the oxygen,” said her daughter, Desiree Washington.

Tab Hunter, iconic 1950s actor, dead at 86:

Tab Hunter, who rose to fame as a Hollywood heartthrob in the 1950s, died Sunday at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, Allan Glaser, his partner of 35 years, confirmed to CNN.

He was 86.

Glaser said the cause of death was a blood clot that caused cardiac arrest.

“We were walking home and he collapsed in my arms in our front yard,” Glaser said. “He said he couldn’t breathe, so I called 911, and we went to the hospital.”

“This was sudden and unexpected,” Glaser added. “He was athletic, more like a 60-year-old not an 86-year-old.”

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