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Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and local party leaders are calling for a grand
Platner to drop out of the Senate race in Maine. After a sexual assault delegation reported by Politico, Platner is facing incumbent
“Republican Susan Collins and Democrats see the race as key to winning control of the Senate.”
Platner denying the allegation is impures 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 Pyreneus President Trump is a board Air Force one on his way to Turkey
for a NATO summit where the war in Ukraine will likely be high on the agenda. Trump said Monday that a resolution to the war is getting closer in PR's Charles Mains is in Moscow.
“I think that's an inflection point of sorts here.”
Platner is clearly under pressure by some in his government, by his economic team, and increasingly the public to bring this war to a close or at least sell a victory to the public even if it falls short of state objectives. The problem here is there's another faction, the nationalist who want him to bring this war to an end through victory, through escalation, through hitting Ukraine harder and
through threatening Europe and NATO more directly. And if anything, I think these latest attacks on Kiev suggest President Putin might just be listening to them. NATO's summit comes a day after Russia launched another missile and drone attack on Kiev that killed at least 22 people.
President Trump expected to meet on the sidelines with Ukraine's Volodymyr Solinsky, who is urging US and European partners to boost Ukraine's air defenses. Billions of Trump accounts now active for families across the US, he accounts invest $1,000 in stocks for some children to be used later in life. Here's a pair of Steven Pissaha.
From the Oval Office, President Trump rang the opening bell for both the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange.
Markets opened for the first time since the Trump accounts launched on the 4th of July.
So today with the ringing of the opening bell for the stock market, those accounts will now begin to grow right along with our booming economy. Any US citizen born between 2025 and the end of 2022 is eligible to get $1,000 in a Trump account. The money will initially be invested in an index fund that tracks the S&P 500 and can't
be withdrawn until the child turns 18. Parents who haven't already signed up can do that at Trumpaccounts.gov. Steven Missaha and PR News. This is MPR News. Two people reported dead and southern China were a tropical storm as force tens of thousands
to be evacuated footage from state broadcasts or CCTV shows cars submerged up to their roofs and rescuers using inflatable bolts to reach people trapped by floodwater. Also Eastern China is on alert for a super-type phone. U.S. has run at the World Cup has come to an end-bell, jumping eliminated the U.S. men's team for goals to want and Monday nights round of 16 matches in Seattle Belgium
advancing to the quarter finals. White House urging Congress to stop a ban on hemp products nationwide from going into effect and November. Some southern states already banned the selling or growing of certain types of him for T.H.C.
In a bucket out of member station WPL in reports a Tennessee farmers who once relied on the cash crop are pivoting. Hemp farmers largely agree that the market needed some more regulation. There's not a person in this industry that didn't know this day was coming. That's Bill Corbin, who switched to growing a fiber variety of hemp.
He says he appreciates lawmakers trying to close a loophole that allowed recreational hemp, but he's worried about consumers who use it medicinally. Full spectrum CBD has THC in it, and older people like Corbin who use it for pain management make up a big share of an industry that might not be around come November.
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