"Lie from MPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
President Trump's dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for leaked tax returns
and exchange the Justice Department's announcing a $1.7 billion compensation fund. The critics say, "We'll help enrich Trump allies targeted during the Biden administration." MPR's Carrie Johnson has been following the case.
“"No one in Washington can remember anything like this ever happening before and since this”
lawsuit was filed about five months ago, ethics people and even some government officials have been concerned about the optics of this." MPR's Carrie Johnson reporting, several primary elections take place tomorrow. The include Kentucky, where President Trump won in 2024, with more than 60 percent of the vote.
Republican candidates and two races are hoping to win, even if Trump does not endorse them. For member station, WUKY, Karen Zarr has details. Candidates have clamored for Trump's endorsement, like Andy Barr.
"I'll always support Trump."
"Bargot Trump's endorsement over Challenger Daniel Cameron for the Kentucky U.S. Senate seat that will be vacated by Mitch McConnell." Trump also endorsed Edgar Rine in his race for the fourth district congressional seat. Opponent Thomas Massey has become one of Trump's most vocal critics, in particular over the handling of the Epstein files.
“Still Massey's ads call "untrump supporters."”
"I agree with President Trump a whole lot more than I disagree with him." Only registered Republicans and Democrats can vote in Kentucky State primary races. For MPR news, I'm Karen Zarr in Lexington. Fire crews in Minnesota have made progress battling two large wildfires that erupted last weekend amid dry, windy conditions.
Kirstie Morone of Minnesota Public Radio News has elated. The first fire broke out Friday afternoon along the north shore of Lake Superior. It quickly grew to more than 350 acres and burned more than 30 buildings. Officials say, as of today, the fire is now 62 percent contained. On Saturday, a second blaze broke out in a wooded region of North Central Minnesota and
exploded to more than 1,600 acres. Some residents were forced to leave their homes. Though so far, no houses or cabins have been destroyed. That fire is now 20 percent contained.
“Those used water scooping planes to douse both fires, while ground crews used bulldozers to”
dig containment lines. The cause of both fires remains under investigation. I'm Kirstie Morone and Cross Lake, Minnesota. I've been a rough start to the work week for about quarter million daily commuters in the New York City area.
Five unions representing about half of the Long Island Railroad's workforce are on strike for a third day against the Metropolitan Transit Authority. On strike over the weekend, over demands affecting salaries and healthcare premiums, the urging of federal authorities they were told to get back to the negotiating table. It's NPR News.
Former South Carolina attorney Alec Murdoch is suing Rebecca Hill, the former court clerk who allegedly interfered with a jury that initially convicted him in 2023, of murdering his wife and son two years earlier. The defense attorney Dick Harputaly and the Dress reporters. We have filed a lawsuit today.
We're going to discuss that with you just a minute. I'd hope that would have been the main topic of this press conference, but over the weekend we learned that the attorney general has announced is considering the death penalty in this case. A civil rights lawsuit was filed yesterday, four days after the state's highest court overturned
Murdoch's double murder convictions and life sentence, he remains a prison on federal and state financial crimes charges. Many structures inside cells that were discovered more than a century ago are getting renewed attention from biologists. Joe Palka reports that structures may help explain how and when genes turn on and off.
The structures are called speckles. They reside in the cell nucleus, along with DNA, the molecule that carries all our genes.
But it was never clear what these speckles did, and they were largely ignored.
Biologists tended to focus on the genes themselves. Now, some scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York believe speckles may hold the explanation for a vexing problem in biology, how groups of neighboring genes are switched on and off in a coordinated fashion. Control of gene expression is what allows our bodies to adapt to changing environments.
It can also lead to disease when the process is disrupted. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palka. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington. This week on up first one trend emerging this election season, President Trump actively opposing Republicans he sees as disloyal and endorsing their primary challengers who've
doubled in combates in multiple states. We're watching Keeprimearies on Tuesday in Kentucky and elsewhere to see if that narrative holds up. And what those races might tell us about November.
