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More Democratic Party leaders are distancing themselves from the nominee in Maine, who
“they'd hope would help them unseat Republican incumbent Susan Collins in the midterm elections”
and possibly win back control of the U.S. Senate. Grant Platner is under pressure to drop out after a sexual assault allegation recently surfaced. Multiple controversies have plagued the progressive, oysterman's campaign in Maine. NPR Sam Greenglass has a latest.
In his statement, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand that Democratic Senatorial campaign committee chair called the allegations incredibly disturbing and say the DSCC will not invest in the Maine Senate race if Platner remains on the ballot. That's after Politico reported the account of a woman who dated Platner. She alleges he entered her home uninvited and intoxicated and forced her to have sex despite
her saying no. NPR has not independently verified the allegation. Platner denies it categorically. It Platner exits the race by July 13th, Maine's Democratic Party could select a replacement
“to face Republican Senator Susan Collins in a race that could determine control of”
the Senate. Sam Greenglass and PR News, Washington. President Trump and other NATO leaders are in the Turkish capital for a high stakes annual summit. The last time Turkey hosted a NATO summit was 2004.
NPR said, "I'll shall cheat," reports that this year, Turkey could play a vital role for the military alliance.
Turkey has NATO's second largest military.
Controls access to the Black Sea through the Turkish streets and has acted as a mediator in major conflicts across the Middle East. So this summit is President Erdogan's chance to present Turkey as an indispensable NATO ally, especially after years of being at odds with many European countries, because if it's human rights record, President Trump praised Erdogan many times, he's also been frustrated
with NATO, arguing the alliance relies too heavily on the U.S.
“Now NATO needs Turkey, not only to help with the wars in Ukraine and Iran, but also”
to help manage its relationship with Trump. Hadil al-Shalci, NPR News, Ankara. Europe is in the grip of a third heat wave, more from NPR Zellon or Beardsley. Weathercasters say the latest heat wave is driven by a new heat dome, the same weather pattern responsible for the previous two heat waves.
Forest fires in southern France in the Pyrenees region bordering Spain have already burned more than 11,000 acres and forced 10,000 people to evacuate from nearly 30 villages and towns. Temperatures will again hit the mid-90s this week in Paris, Europe's most densely populated city. Rebeards Lee and PR News Paris, a French court's clearing the way for far-right leader
Marine Le Pen to possibly run for President next year, provided she wear an electronic bracelet. It's NPR News. Investors have begun trading in a Texas-based stock exchange that hopes to one day challenge Wall Street, Dillon Duke with member satian KERA has more from Dallas.
The Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange has begun trading test stocks as part of a month-long phased rollout. The exchange is looking to challenge the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQs do woppily
over stock trading, and with $275 million in cash, the finance world is taking them seriously.
State officials are hoping the exchange will help solidify Texas as a financial powerhouse. The public will be able to purchase thousands of stocks by the end of July. For NPR News, I'm Dillon Duke. The crowds are gathered in Buenos Aires for this hour as FIFA World Cup showdown between Argentina and Egypt and PR's Emily Fang reports.
Excitements also building an Egypt, which has made it to the final 16 team for the first time since 1934. Thousands of Egypt supporters have gathered to watch the game in Cairo at this outdoor viewing spot. The rival team, Argentina, is heavily favored to win.
They won the World Cup in 2022, but the advancement of the Egyptian team to the round is 16 after beating Australia in an electrifying match last week has led to an outpouring of support for Egypt across the Arab world. And they are ready to celebrate in Cairo, beating drums and seeing as their team prepares for the game to kick off.
Emily Fang and Pyrenees. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington.
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