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Main's Democratic Senate nominee, Graham Platner, is now losing the support of fellow progressive Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in light of a new sexual assault allegation in an unrelated news conference today,
New York City Mayor Zaramom Donnie, also urged Platner to drop out of the race. - The focus of today should be to respond to the gravity of what so many of us have read,
“and I think that the only appropriate responses”
for the campaign to come to an end. - Politico had published a bombshell report that a main woman, Jenny Rassico, said Platner sexually assaulted her in 2021. Platner says that's categorically false.
NPR has not independently confirmed Rassico's allegation. As NPR is a lane of more tells us, the report is a latest in a series of controversies to overshadow Platner's campaign to defeat veteran Republican and common Susan Collins
in November, and give the party a shot of taking back the U.S. Senate. - This is a race Democrats have seen as key to taking back the Senate in the fall. Trump lost Maine in 2024,
and people think that Republican Senator Susan Collins is vulnerable. You know, if Platner were to drop out, main election law says that a general election candidate has to drop out on or before Monday,
the second Monday in July, so if he were to do that,
“main Democrats would have until the 27th to select a replacement.”
NPR is a lane of more reporting.
The death toll from last month's powerful Twitter
earthquakes in Venezuela is still rising. Here's John Oates in Caracas. - The quakes that struck on June 24th have left more than 3,500 people dead according to the latest official figures.
Around Caracas, posters taped to trees and lamp posts show photos of some of the thousands who are still missing. - Leachens of families who lost their homes are staying in temporary shelters in parks and places.
Some of the displaced, like Wilfredo Delgado, sneak back into their condemned buildings to fetch supplies and take showers despite government warnings. - Well, I'll get back to you.
- After returning safely from his eighth floor apartment, Delgado says government inspectors overreacted by blocking it off. This building is still strong. He says it's still intact.
“For MPR News, I'm John Oates in Caracas.”
- Walmart's cutting the price of some summertime staples. More from MPR, it's got Horsley. - Walmart says it's cutting prices on hamburger and soda pop this summer. The Trump administration tired of the rollbacks
in a social media post. Grocery prices in May were up 2.7% from a year ago. We're gonna update on June's grocery prices next week. Proventual leaders in Canada are proposing a pipeline to carry crude oil from Western Canada
to the Atlantic coast. Canada is exploring new markets for its exports in response to stiff tariffs in the United States. It's got Horsley and Pyrenees Washington. - This is NPR.
- Explosions shook the Syrian capital today
for the second time in a week.
The Interior Ministry says at least 18 people were injured in the attack for which no group had immediately claimed responsibility to place as the Syrian president was hosting Lyra France. Ukraine's security service says a suspect in last month's
Monaco bombing that injured a Ukrainian business tycoon with links to Russia has been found dead. Local authorities say Anastasia Bittersofska, the Ukrainian national was found with gunshot wounds to the head. In a statement, Ukraine's prosecutor general's office
has a military intelligence officer, one of two people detained, confessed to killing the 39-year-old. Prince Harry has lost a privacy lawsuit against a British tabloid newspaper,
King Charles's younger son had sued the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper over claims of unlawful information gathering. His NPR is Fatma Al-Qasar. - The verdict came as Prince Harry,
who is King Charles's younger son, began a week long visit to his home country. Harry, along with other high profile claimants, including Elton John, had accused the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper of privacy invasions,
including bugging phone lines and obtaining personal health records. Earlier this year, he gave emotional testimony in the trial saying the press intrusion had made his wife Meghan's life an absolute misery. Today, a judge in London ruled against the Prince,
saying the allegations required more evidence to be proven. The publishers of the Daily Mail called the ruling a magnificent vindication of their journalism. Fatma Al-Qasar, MPR News. - I'm Lakshmi, saying NPR News.
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