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his campaign for Senate in Maine after a former girlfriend accused him of rape.
“Maine's Democratic Party says it will hold a convention to select a new nominee as NPR's”
Barbara Sprunt reports Platner denies the allegation. Within hours of a report from Platner's former girlfriend, alleged rape, the Maine Democratic Party and top congressional Democrats called on Platner 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 Platner 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.
The US military says it's carrying out another round of strikes on Iran after Iran attacked ships in the state of Hormuz earlier this week, and retaliated for U.S. strike's last night.
“Earlier today, President Trump said Iranian attacks signal the end of the ceasefire”
as NPR's Franco Ordoni has explained. Trump not only warned that the U.S. would likely hit Iran again, but he also threatened to bring back a naval blockade. I mean, he is clearly frustrated after the last night's series of strikes, and he really went off on Iranian leaders calling them Kuku and a bunch of liars.
"I don't want to deal with them anymore, there's scum, you know, scum is, there's scum, there's sick people, they're led by sick people, and the vicious violent people." Now, the big question is whether calling off the ceasefire is actually a change in policy or simply a negotiating tactic. But Trump did say during the press conference that this would not lead to full-scale fighting
again, and that anything that happened would be over quickly. "NPR's Franco Ordoni is reporting, health workers responding to an outbreak of Ebola in
“the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, say they have not been paid by the government.”
NPR's Dury Biscarren reports their protesting delayed wages, unfair treatment, and a lack of protective gear." The Bundesvio strain of Ebola has seconded more than 1,700 people in this outbreak, and killed almost 600. Frontline health workers in Etaury Province told the Associated Press, "They have not been
paid their wages and bonuses from Congo's government since the outbreak was declared on May 15th. They said they're on strike to protest their working conditions." Local media reported that several health care workers protested on Monday, burning tires outside a hospital in Buña, capital of the hardest hit province in this outbreak.
The strike comes as enrollment for clinical trials have begun in Congo, for two treatments that may help treat the Bundesvio strain, Dury Biscarren and Piano's Washington. This is NPR News, from Washington. Former Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugin has been spared from prison for usuring a Mexican defendant out of a courtroom to evade ICE agents.
A federal judge fined her $5,000 in sighted her otherwise law abiding life in issuing the sentence, Dugin resigned her Milwaukee County Circuit Judd ship after obstruction conviction amid threats of impeachment from Republican legislators. She faced up to five years in prison, but the judge said what she did was a momentary deviation from a life of public service.
In Ecuador, a humanoid robot took part in a mission to climb the country's tallest peak. Katherine Osborn reports it was a step toward robot conducted research in harsh mountain conditions. The robot named Pimba Hose operated at an altitude of around 20,000 feet at Chimboraso, Ecuador's tallest mountain. It walked and used sensors to collect data on the terrain.
Researchers are testing the use of robots to monitor mountain glaciers, deforestation and wildlife. This robot was not sophisticated enough to make the climb on its own, humans carried it through steeper parts, but they said the expedition will help refine robot climbers that they hope will one day scale Mount Everest.
For impure news, I'm Katherine Osborn in Rio de Janeiro.
On this day in 1776, Colonel John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration
of Independence outside the State House in Philadelphia, now called Independence Hall. The Continental Congress waited four days to read it publicly because they had to wait for the document to be printed and distributed. I'm Marilyn Barton, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Of all the protests in the summer of 2020, one took a unique turn.
This is the story of how violence came to occupy an anti-violence occupation in Seattle. Listen to we keep us safe, a new true crime series on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.
