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Graham Platner, is denying an allegation of sexual assault that was reported today by Politico.
“Regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, the mindful of the political reality won't”
affect. We were taking the time to reflect on the best path forward for the state that I love, the people that I love, the movement I belong to, and the goal of defeating Susan Collins. The story alleges that five years ago Platner forced a woman who is dating to have sex with him despite her repeated objections, NPR is not independently verified these allegations.
Platner is facing incumbent Republican Susan Collins Democrats believe the race is keyed to their chances of winning control of the Senate during this year's elections, Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer has called for Platner to drop out of the race. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to discuss Russia's war at a NATO summit that this week in NPR Turkey, it comes as Russia and Ukraine have been trading heavy strikes
and Piers join a kiss, it says more. Ukraine and Russia remains so far apart on what an end to this war actually means. I mean, Ukraine does not want to accept any deal that would reward the Kremlin for starting
“this full-scale war, so they refuse to see it any territory to Russia.”
The people we spoke today also don't see an end to this war, and that's really, really scary for them, especially now. One of the Moscow is using these missiles on Ukrainian cities that are causing so much damage and killing lots of people. Yelena Zavuzina, she lives near the apartment building that was hit, she had this message
for NATO. But it just stops this war, we don't want to die, we are innocent people, you know. She says NATO leaders can pressure Russia to end this war if they want to. NPR is joining a kissist reporting. A brutal heat wave on the east coast has eased up a bit with highs in the 80s in the
mid Atlantic, but the extreme heat was severe, and New Jersey at least 19 people died from heat-related problems during the last week's heat wave, NPR's Alejandro Berunda reports. The intense heat blanketing the northeast has backed off for now, but it permanently changed many families who lost loved ones to it. State Health Commissioner Dr. Rainer Washington says many of those who died were found in
their homes without air conditioning. Others were outside or in parked cars. Washington says the heat hit many different kinds of people.
“It's important to note that the age ranges for these individuals were not just the elderly,”
they were folks who were younger adults. Heat kills more people every year in the U.S. than any other kind of weather disaster. And it's likely that even more people died last week from heat, it could take months to learn the heat waves to toll. Alejandro Berunda and Piano's.
Belgium has eliminated the U.S. in the men's world cup by a score of four to one in Seattle tonight, Belgium will play Spain in the quarter final on Friday in Inglewood, California. This is NPR News. The Supreme Court has declined to block Texas from enforcing a state law that requires age verification and parental consent for users seeking to download apps or make in-app purchases
on phones. In a pair of one sentence orders Justice Samuel Alito denied requests by plaintiffs who claim that the Texas App Store Accountability Act violates users' constitutional rights to free speech. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced what he says is the biggest procurement in Canadian military history as Dan Carpenter reports a German company has been chosen to build
a new submarine fleet for the Royal Canadian Navy. Carney made the announcement in Halifax before leaving for a NATO summit in Turkey.
The competition for the submarine deal worth more than $100 billion was fierce between South
Korea's Hanwa and Germany's Tisen Krup. In the end, Ottawa went with the German bid for 12 new diesel electric submarines, four of which could be delivered by 2034. Germany has pledged $160 billion in economic activity in Canada and 650,000 jobs. That includes investing in the port of Churchill, buying liquefied natural gas, manufacturing
torpedoes, and helping to construct a space launch complex in Canada. And he says negotiations will now begin on the final contract price. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpenter, in Toronto. Officials in Thailand have discovered two gold rings that are around 2,000 years old that were found last week during an ex-givation at a new site about 80 miles southwest of Bangkok.
The rings were found with human bones that experts believe the owner may have been a merchant. I'm Rylan Barton, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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