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Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is facing growing calls to drop out of the race after he was accused of rape. He denies the allegation. NBC News’ Ryan Nobles reports.

Officials also find multiple cracks and sagging floors in building that is being converted into apartments A high-rise building in Manhattan was deemed unstable on Tuesday after authorities determined that support columns buckled, spurring evacuation of nearby buildings, according to officials and reports. Officials said they also found “structural issues” on the 21st floor of … Read more

Thousands of people descend on Newport Beach, drawn by flash mob-style meetup organized online An alleged “TikTok takeover” sparked mayhem in a southern California beach town over the Fourth of July weekend, leading to fires, roughly 400 arrests and officers on horseback for crowd control. Thousands of people descended on Newport Beach, California, on Saturday … Read more

Officers say they saw signs of life multiple times, and after hospital treated the child, he was taken to hospital’s morgue A toddler who was declared dead after being discovered in a backyard pool in February was actually alive and found hours later in a room that serves as the hospital morgue, recently released police … Read more

Neera Tanden and Shannon Watts, a pair of top Democratic political operatives, are calling on Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner to step down amid a bombshell rape allegation that emerged Monday. Tanden, the CEO of the Center for American Progress, a center-left think tank that had deep ties to the Biden and Clinton administrations, … Read more

Utah county attorney’s office says evidence against Tyler James Robinson is sufficient for case to move to trial Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Utah prosecutors on Tuesday showed video from the day of Charlie Kirk’s killing that they said depicted suspect Tyler James Robinson entering the Utah Valley University campus and … Read more

Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul suggested Rep. Elise Stefanik would have been a tougher Republican opponent than GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman this fall, prompting the Nassau County executive to fire back by comparing the incumbent to Disney villain Cruella de Vil while blasting her record. Hochul made the remarks during an interview with … Read more

Ron DeSantis’s Stop Woke Act suffers another legal setback, with the state accused of ‘puppeteering’ Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A federal appeals panel struck down a significant chunk of Ron DeSantis’s so-called Stop Woke Act on Tuesday, delivering another rebuff to the Republican Florida governor’s efforts to stifle free speech … Read more

Anti-Trump voices online are celebrating the U.S. soccer team’s Monday night World Cup loss to Belgium after President Donald Trump said he intervened with FIFA to help get an American star cleared to play. Folarin Balogun, a player who was integral to the U.S. team’s success in the earlier rounds of the tournament, received a red … Read more

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is facing questions after fundraising with a “female-to-male” top surgeon who previously operated on minors shortly after saying that he does not support sex-change surgeries for children. Talarico, a progressive Democrat, state lawmaker and Presbyterian seminarian, is running a highly competitive race to flip a Texas Senate seat for the … Read more