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Pressure is mounting on main Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner to leave the race,
“as Imperial Sage Miller reports Platner has lost his top allies."”
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is the latest that has called on Platner to leave the race for Maine's U.S. Senate seat. The request came after Platner was accused of sexual assault by a former romantic partner. Platner gained Sanders endorsement early in his campaign for Senate. Platner positioned himself as a progressive, much like Sanders, calling on Medicare for all, and getting corporate money out of politics. Other top Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer, have urged Platner to suspend his campaign. Platner would need to end his Senate bid by Monday in order for Maine Democrats to nominate a replacement in time for the general election. Democrats are hoping to flip the seat blue in November. Sage Miller and PR news. A federal judge has rejected the Department of Justice's attempt to gain access to the personal
“information of Fulton County's 2020 election workers. It's a setback for President Trump's”
probe into Georgia and his unsubstantiated claims that voter fraud cost him the presidency. Melissa Fato for member station W.A.B.E. has more. Fulton County officials argued a DOJ subpoena requesting the names and information of every county employee and poll volunteer was meant to harass and intimidate them. They asked a federal judge to intervene. In his decision, U.S. District Judge William Ray called the subpoena highly burdened some and unreasonable.
He also noted the statute of limitations has long since passed. So the feds couldn't use the information to charge anyone with a crime. Ray scolded the DOJ for trying to use grand jury powers to gain private information without illegitimate purpose. For NPR news, I'm Melissa Fato in Atlanta. The International Olympic Committee today lifted its suspension of Russia's National Olympic Committee.
“The move clears the way for Russian athletes to compete at the Los Angeles summer games in”
2020-8 NPR's Bryan Man reports. The IOC banned the vast majority of Russians from competing for their home country after the full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This IOC move will make it easier for Russians to compete even as Russian drone and missile strikes continue to slam Ukrainian cities. Lada Slav Harris-Kevitch is a Ukrainian Olympic Bob Slatter. Today we have day of mourning because of before yesterday attacks and to have the same news like in the day of mourning gets wild because
with that you understand that scale war is not getting any smaller and it's a very wrong decision and it's very shameful decision. Sports officials in Moscow praised the IOC move but some restrictions remain in place if Russians win medals they still won't be allowed to play their national anthem or fly the Russian flag. Bryan Man and PR news. Yesterday's World Cup match between the U.S.
and Belgium set a record as the most watched soccer telecast in U.S. history. Fox says 30 million
people watch the game. This is NPR. Officials say a 37-story high-rise under construction in Manhattan is unstable and moving after columns buckled and floors sagged the former Pfizer headquarters as being converted to luxury departments nearby buildings including a school where evacuated New York City mayors Iran-Mundani says engineers are working to stabilize the structure builders say the towers part of the city's largest office to residential conversion project
with over 1,600 planned units. Hungary pulled its state run TV off the air today and moved to dismantle what many call the backbone of the former government's propaganda machine drew life height reports. If you tuned into Hungarian state TVs M1 this afternoon you got a blank screen and a message. Public media should not lie we apologize for doing so for years. The shake-up didn't stop there. State news radio went quiet too, replaced by classical music.
Top station executives and several anchors were fired. One was even escorted out of the building. M1 was the flagship of government propaganda under former Prime Minister Victor Orban whose party lost power, less spring. Hungary's new Prime Minister Paytad Modgard had promised on the campaign trail to make the broadcaster independent. There'll be an interim period first, then state media's new leadership will be chosen through a competitive process.
For NPR news I'm Drew Lifight in Budapest. President Trump is claiming credit for Walmart's recent price cuts though the retailer statement doesn't mention his administration's involvement Walmart's statement describes the cuts as a seasonal strategy with no mention of the government interaction. This is NPR news from Washington. This message comes from the NPR wine club,
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