Live from MPR News, I'm trial Snyder, Congressman Andy Barr, one of the Kentu...
Senate nomination on Tuesday night setting him up to be the likely successor to Mitch
McConnell.
“Bar celebrated the victory with supporters in Lexington.”
Lily Burris was there from Member Station W.E.K.U. McConnell announced his retirement in early 2025, after more than 40 years representing the Commonwealth in Washington. McConnell was the longest serving Senate majority leader. Barr has been representing Kentucky's sixth district since 2013.
In his speech in Lexington on Tuesday, Barr reiterated talking points about veterans, Cole, and his common sense beliefs he said Democrats don't share. "I will fight for our way of life, for our farms, our factories, our horse industry, our bourbon, for coal." Ever received an endorsement from President Donald Trump, giving him an edge over other
candidates in the race, including former Attorney General Daniel Cameron. For MPR News, I'm Lily Burris and Lexington.
“Delaware Democratic Senator Chris Coons is slamming President Trump's settlement with the IRS,”
calling the creation of what's being called an anti-weaponization fund and illegal abuse of power.
"The president should not be able to direct his attorney general to pay out a billion dollars
1.7 billion dollars in taxpayer funds." Without any review by a judge or any review by Congress, we have the power of the first. We just need to exercise." "On Monday, Trump reached a settlement with the IRS in which he agreed to drop his $10 billion lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns, as part of the deal the Justice Department
created a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate people affected by what the president calls a weaponization of the Justice Department. Using Attorney General Todd Blanch defended the fund on Capitol Hill Tuesday, he also signed a document that's been posted on the Justice Department's website that bars the IRS from
“ever pursuing any audits into past tax claims for President Trump as relatives and companies.”
Trump administration, funding treatment clinics, to try to contain an Ebola outbreak
in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The State Department has evacuated seven Americans as impairs Michelle Kelliman reports. The State Department says the U.S. has a "iron-clad commitment" to ensuring that its response to the Ebola outbreak is fully resourced and rapid. Officials brush off criticism that the dismantlement of America's main aid agency is
hampering the response. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his advisors accused the World Health Organization for being slow to identify the outbreak, the U.S. pulled out of the WHO last year. The State Department is sending disaster relief teams to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, and setting up clinics to provide emergency Ebola screening, though
that could take weeks. Michelle Kelliman and PR News, the State Department. This is NPR News. Russian leader Vladimir Putin is in China, arriving in Beijing Wednesday, days after President Trump's summit there with Chinese President Xi Jinping. She welcomed Putin with a ceremony at
the Great Hall of the People at 2R2 discuss a variety of topics, including energy and security, as well as advancing overall ties to China's Russia's top customer for oil and gas. Cruise are battling mild fires, multiple wildfires, and Southern California, including the sandy fire in the hills above Simee Valley, northwest of Los Angeles, evacuation orders, and warnings remain in place for several neighborhoods, firefighters, also battling
a blaze on Santa Rosa Island off the Southern California coast. Colombian folks, singer who popularized Afro-Indigenous sounds, has died at the age of 85, and PR's Felix Contreras reports. She was born Sonia Basantevides, but the world-new her as Toto La Mompassina. She was from Colombia's Caribbean coast near a town called Momposh, from which she took
her stage name. She came from a musical family that specialized in the Afro-Columbian traditions of that area of the country, a combination of heavy percussion, indigenous flutes, and common response vocals. In 1993, she recorded an album for a musician Peter Gabriel's real-world records that catapulted her to international audiences. And in recent years, she became a popular collaborator with a new generation of Colombian pop and folk artists,
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