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back to Washington D.C. following the NATO summit in Turkey that started with divisions
“over the Iran war, but ended on a more positive note in Paris, right? Go word on”
yes. I mean, as we know, Trump's long been frustrated with NATO leaders over their lack of support for the US-led war against Iran, but he also made several complaints about them about defense spending. Trump even stoked those tensions in the beginning when he insisted early that the US should again have control of Greenland instead of Denmark, a comment
that he knows and even admitted kind of that hurts his relationship with Europe, but at the press conference, Trump really flipped the script and showered NATO leaders with praise. Trump is returning to the White House amid a new round of attacks by both the US and Iran. Democrat Graham Platner is ending his campaign for U.S. Senate to Maine after being accused
of rape.
“Platner continues to deny the allegations and its impairs, Tamara Keith reports he got”
some sympathy from President Trump. Platner's campaign went into a tailspin on Monday when Politico published the account of a woman he once dated, who said he sexually assaulted her. In an 11-minute video that
ended with Platner dropping out of the race, he insisted it never happened. On Air Force
One, President Trump was asked about Platner. In 2023, a New York jury found Trump liable for sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s. Trump calls her allegations a hoax and a lie. Tamara Keith and PR News. In the 18-carol case, a federal judge is ordering she be paid the $5.8 million it's been held in escrow. The judge ruled on the release of the money Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme
Court upheld the civil verdict in the case. Trump's lawyers are asking a court to block the payment.
“To 15-year-olds were allegedly drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns from a driverless”
waymo car in California. In purest John Ruich reports a company called 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 Orbeez as they "sipped on afternoon libations while being chauffered 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 Ruich and P.R. News.
This is M.P.R. News. Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan has avoided prison time instead of federal judge Wednesday found her $5,000 for helping a Mexican defendant escape her courtroom as immigration and customs enforcement agents waited in the hallway. Dugan 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, but the judge cited her lifetime of public service. An observatory in Massachusetts collects data on rain, temperature, and blueberries. Bianca Garcia from a member station WBU are explains what blueberries say about climate change. For 141 years, scientists at Bluehill Observatory in Milton, Massachusetts have recorded the
date the blueberry bush on their property produces its first ripe fruit. This year, it was June
24. Michael Ayakono is the chief scientist at Bluehill. There's also changing slightly that date that we observe is now about a week earlier than it used to be about 100 years ago, and that's because the plants are responding to parameters that they're sensitive to the temperature of the rainfall, the sunshine. Climate change has shifted those factors. Bluehill's data echoes what scientists see across
nature, warmer springs have caused plants to flower earlier. For NBR News, I'm Bianca Garcia in Boston. Major financial markets in Asia mostly lower and oil prices up amid the escalation of hostilities between the U.S. and NBR on Japan's benchmark NK and shares in South Korea advancing but stocks in China and elsewhere trading lower. This is -- Of all the protests in the summer of 2020, for a moment there, it was Utopia.
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
