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his Senate campaign in Maine after a former girlfriend accused him of rape in an article published
“by Politico, Platner denies the allegation but in a video posted to social media he announced”
his exit from the race. We live in a political system that is not built for normal people. It's a system that is built structurally to make sure that movements like ours cannot flourish. That if they begin to succeed, they can be crushed. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and leading Democratic lawmakers called on Platner to
drop out. His exit from the race sets off a scramble for Democrats to find a new nominee to take on incumbent Republicans, Susan Collins, this fall, Maine's Democratic Party says it will hold a nominating convention to fill Platner's vacancy on the ballot. The party has until July 27 to select a replacement.
President Trump announced on social media that he'd be traveling on the old Air Force
one jet as he travels home from the NATO summit in Turkey. He said the new plane gifted from Qatar would be on display for U.S. forces abroad and PR's Deepa Shiver on has more.
“The trip to Ankara Turkey was the first international trip Trump has taken with the new”
plane. But on the way home, travel plans changed. Trump posted on social media that he would fly in an older Air Force one for part of the trip home while the new plane would stop in Milton Hall Air Force Base in the United Kingdom to give military members a chance to tour the aircraft.
The new Air Force one was a gift from Qatar that Trump celebrated. But it's also caused massive concerns about security and safety.
When asked at a press conference if the decision to switch planes was due to security concerns,
Trump didn't directly answer the question and said the new plane would visit multiple military bases. Deepa Shiver on and PR news Washington. The federal judge has sent a mid-February trial date for the man charged with planting two pipe bombs in Washington DC on the eve of the January 6 capital riot and PR's
Ryan Lucas has the latest on the case against Brian Cole Jr.
“Cole was arrested in December after a nearly five year FBI investigation.”
prosecutors say he built in place two pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic party headquarters. The night before a mob of Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to protest Trump's loss in the 2020 election. Neither device went off.
Cole has pleaded not guilty at a hearing in federal court, Judge Amir Ali set the mid-February date for the trial, which is expected to last around two weeks. Earlier this week, the judge ruled that President Trump's blanket pardon for people charged or convicted of crimes in connection with January 6 offenses does not apply to Cole. Ryan Lucas and beer news Washington Oil prices rose and stock markets drop today after
President Trump raised doubts about the temporary truce in the war with Iran. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. The last woman executed in Britain, Ruth Ellis, has been posthumously pardoned the 28-year-old single mother was hanged in 1955 for killing her abusive lover. The pardon acknowledges the injustice of her execution and replaces the death penalty with
life imprisonment. Her case highlighted the lack of a diminished responsibility defense for abuse victims leading to change in British law. Two 15-year-olds were allegedly drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns from a driverless waymo car in California as NPR's John Ruitt reports the company called the police.
A Facebook post by the San Mateo County Police Department started like this. Parents do you know where your teens are? Waymo does. Waymo driverless cars have an array of cameras inside and out and after seeing the teens drinking and handling the toy guns, the company stopped the car and called the police.
The police department said they detained the teenagers and found that they had been shooting spongy water beads called orbees as they "sipped on afternoon libeians while being chauffeured around town in the driverless vehicle." The police said the shooting and the drinking were bad ideas, but taking a waymo was the one smart thing they did because driving impaired would have made things much worse.
John Ruitt and PR news. New Yorkers are slowly being led into a cordoned off man-hatten street after column's buckled and an under construction high-rise triggering evacuations. Cruz worked through the night to shore up a massive development at the side of the former headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
The mayor's Iran-Mamtoni says there's been no additional movement in the building since it was deemed stable last night. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Every story from shortwave and PR science podcast starts with a question, "Why do we have nightmares?
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