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"Live from NPR News on Jial Snyder, Democrat Graham Plattener is suspending h...

for Senate and Maine after a former girlfriend accused him of rape.

Plattener denies the allegation but impairs Barbara Sprunt reports he faced growing calls

to drop out." Within hours of a report from Plattener's former girlfriend, alleged rape, the main Democratic party and top congressional Democrats called on Plattener to withdraw from the race. The progressive campaign had long been marked by scandal from a tattoo of a Nazi emblem to reports of him exchanging sexually explicit messages with multiple women near the beginning

of his marriage. After the latest allegation, the campaign armed for Senate Democrats vowed to not invest in the race, if Plattener remained on the ballot. The party will now begin a process to select a new nominee, and the clock is ticking.

They have until July 27th.

Forever Sprunt and Pyrenees, Washington. The main Democratic party says it is planning to hold a convention to choose a candidate

to run against incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins.

On his way back from the NATO summit in Turkey, President Trump told reporters a board Air Force One that Iran has been hit hard by the latest U.S. military strikes. "We just said it very hard, and I say we hit a 20 in one every time they hit us with an out of 20." Trump said the strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial ships in the

straight-of-art moves, before leaving the NATO summit Trump said the interim agreement aimed at ending the war is over.

But he now says he's not sure if the U.S. and Iran will return to a full-scale war.

Following the fresh U.S. attacks, missile alerts, Syrians went off early Thursday and Kuwait and bought rain both home to U.S. military bases. Leaving the NATO summit, President Trump gave a boost to Ukraine, Trump announced that the U.S. will grant Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot Missile interceptors.

Permission to produce the air defense system came after Russia launched a third ballistic

missile attack on the Ukrainian capital in less than a week. A new study from Johns Hopkins University finds gun homicides dropping after hitting record highs during the pandemic, but the study shows a rise in other gun desk, got Mussionic from Member Station WIPR has more. Researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions tracked U.S. gun mortality

data from 2024, and they found that while firearm homicides dropped about 16% from the previous year, the U.S. still notched the fifth ever highest total gun desk that year. The reason is because gun suicides are reaching record levels. And total there were about 44,500 gun deaths in the U.S. that year. The study found that black women experienced the highest increase in gun suicides over

the past 10 years with a 169% increase in the rate. Overall, gun suicides among the Latino population and Asian women also dramatically increased. For NPR News, I'm Scott Masjone in Baltimore. This is NPR News. Former Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugin has avoided prison time.

Instead of federal judge Wednesday, find her $5,000 for helping a Mexican defendant escape her courtroom as immigration and customs enforcement agents waited in the hallway. Dugin resigned as a Milwaukee County judge after her obstruction conviction and had to move because of threats against her family. She had faced up to five years in prison by the judge cited her lifetime of public service.

A team of doctors and bioethicists raising the prospect that surgeons could ethically obtain Oregon's while youth inizing patients who wish to end their lives. NPR's Rob Stein reports that idea raises many concerns. In an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the authors lay out their views for something they dubbed "Death by Oregon donation."

That, we're involved ending the lives of patients who request youth in Asia by removing their organs. Youth in Asia is legal in some countries, but it isn't in the U.S. The idea is that allowing youth in Asia for patients who want to end their lives in the Oregon donors, this could provide more usable organs for transplantation.

Some bioethicists say "Death by Oregon donation" could be ethical, but others condemn the idea, saying it's unethical and dangerous. Rob Stein, in Pyrnese. HBO's emergency room drama The Pit leads this year's Emmy nominations a bit received 25 nominations in the final season of HBO's hacks landed 24 a single year record for

a comedy. I'm trial Snyder, this is NPR News. Join me as I investigate the unsolved killing of 16-year-old Antonio May's junior. Listen to We Keep Us Safe on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.

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