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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and local leaders are calling for Graham Platner
to drop out of the main Senate race after a sexual assault allegation reported by Politico.
“Platner is facing incumbent Republican Susan Collins and Democrats see the race as key”
to winning control of the Senate. He's denying the allegation as NPR's Elena Moore reports. Politico's story details an account made by a former girlfriend of Platner who alleges that in 2021 Platner entered her home in rural Maine, intoxicated, and forced her to have sex with him, despite her repeatedly saying no.
NPR has not independently verified those claims and Platner has denied them. Though he also says in a statement that he's taking time to quote, "reflect on the best path forward." Platner is now facing louder calls to suspend his bid with top backers pulling their endorsements, including California Congressman Rokana, who wrote, quote, "sexual assault
or violence against women is a red line, Elena Moore and Peer News." President Trump rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ from the oval office this morning, and Peer has a Franco-Ordonia's reports Trump marked the first day of trading for a new investment vehicle for U.S. born children. President Trump boasted that the new Trump accounts would allow millions of dollars
to be invested into accounts of financially poor children. Think of it, children that are born without money, without any money, great parents, they can have everything can be great, but they have no money. They can become very wealthy children at 18, and they can flip it over. The President celebrated a new accounts which allow contributions up to $5,000 annually
in an oval office ceremony attended by leaders of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ,
and other business leaders, signed into law last year, more than six million families
have signed up for the program according to the Treasury Department. Franco, Ordonia's, and Peer News, the White House. Hamas says it's dissolving its civilian-led governing body. The move comes as Israeli troops push deeper into Gaza where they now control nearly 70% of the territory and Peer's honest Boba reports.
"The announcement by Hamas, these all said the body that's strung Gaza's day-to-day affairs from public hospitals to garbage collection, since the Ruben elections nearly 20 years ago. The move by Hamas appears to be an attempt to pressure Israel to move forward with President Trump's peace plan, while not addressing stall talks on the decommissioning of weapons in Gaza and Israeli through withdrawal. Hamas says civil servants will continue
“to carry out essential public services until a committee of independent Palestinian”
technocrats takes over as Trump's plan calls for, but the committee's members are ineboring Egypt and Israel's block them from entering Gaza. Israeli before a minister could also have called the move of Hamas at trick, and insisted on Hamas is disarmament as the way forward, and a small boat and peoring news goes on." And from Washington, this is NPR News.
An island-wide blackout has hit Cuba as fuel reserves dwindle and its electric grid continues to crumble. Cuba's electric union says the cause is under investigation. Fuel has been running out across Cuba since January when President Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to the island, deepening its economic and financial crisis. The Trump administration could soon make peptide therapies more available. The injectables
are promoted for wellness and longevity, but Biden-era restrictions have largely kept them off the market as NPR's will stone reports. These peptides are not FDA-approved and have not been studied in large rigorous trials with humans. They're often touted for injury recovery, muscle growth, metabolism, and more. But compounding pharmacies in the US haven't been legally allowed to offer them.
Sean Norian is CEO of Empower Pharmacy, one of the peptide makers, hoping the FDA will open
“up the market again. "I think the FDA would much rather see these medications are sourced”
from regulated entities instead of patients being forced to go to unregulated sources." The FDA's own scientists have come out against doing this because of a lack of evidence. A committee charged with making recommendations on some of the most popular peptides will meet later this month. Will stone and PR news. "A large wildfire has led organizers of cyclings toward a frost to ban fans from attending the finale of the third stage in the
south of France. Organizers say the priority is protecting people, property, and natural areas.
Only essential race vehicles were allowed on the round. You're listening to NPR News from Washington."
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