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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Maine's Democratic Party says it will hold a convention to replace U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner if he drops out of the race. It comes after Platner was accused of rape this week. In a statement, the party says it held a meeting with over 100 state committee members who voted to hold the nominating convention if there is a vacancy. The potential end of the truce between Iran and the U.S. has renewed anxiety over gas prices. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

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It's likely to mean higher prices, uh, at least in the short run. Gas prices had come down about seventy-five cents a gallon from their wartime peak, but they're still about eighty cents a gallon higher than they were before the U.S. and Israel started this war with Iran. AAA says the average price of regular gas this morning was about three dollars seventy-nine cents a gallon, and Kilduff says that's likely to bounce higher overnight.

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The discount party at the pump is over. W-we're not gonna see much relief. We should be going back over four dollars a gallon, a national average here pretty quickly.

Scott Horsley1:15

And diesel prices are also likely to climb, and of course, that has knock-on effects for the cost of everything that gets trucked around the country or shipped around the world.

Ryland Barton· Host1:23

NPR's Scott Horsley reporting. President Trump is taking Syria off a terrorism blacklist, paving the way for more