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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump's dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for leaked tax returns. In exchange, the justice department's announcing a $1.7 billion compensation fund that critics say will help enrich Trump allies targeted during the Biden administration. NPR's Kerry Johnson has been following the case.
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No one in Washington can remember anything like this ever happening before. And since this lawsuit was filed about 5 months ago f and even some government officials have been kind of concerned about the optics of this.
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NPR's Kerry Johnson reporting. Several primary elections take place tomorrow. They include Kentucky, where President Trump won in 2024 with more than 60% of the vote. Republican candidates in two races are hoping to win even if Trump does not endorse them. From member station wuky, Karen Zarr has details.
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Candidates have clamored for Trump's endorsement. Like Andy Barr, I'll always support Trump. Barr got Trump's endorsement over Challeng Daniel Cameron for the Kentucky U.S. senate seat that will be vacated by Mitch McConnell. Trump also endorsed Ed Gowrine in his race for the 4th District congressional seat. Opponent Thomas Massie has become one of Trump's most vocal critics, in particular over the handling of the Epstein files. Still, Massie's ads call on Trump 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 NPR News, I'm Karen Zarr in Lexington.
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Fire crews in Minnesota have made progress, battling two large wildfires that erupted last weekend amid dry, windy conditions. Kirsty Marone of Minnesota Public Radio News has the latest.
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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% contained. On Saturday, a second blaze broke out in a wooded region of north central Minnesota and exploded to more than 1600 acres. Some residents were forced to leave their homes, though so far no houses or cabins have been destroyed. That fire is now 20% contained. Crews 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 Kristi Marrone in Cross Lake, Minnesota.
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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 went on strike over the weekend over demands affecting salaries and health care 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 the jury that initially convicted him in 2023 of murdering his wife and son two years earlier. Defense attorney Dick Harpoutlian addressed reporters.
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We have filed a lawsuit today. We're going to discuss that with you in 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 he's considering the death penalty in this case.
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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 in prison on federal and state financial crimes charges. Tiny structures inside cells that were discovered more than a century ago are getting renewed attention from biologists. Joe Palka reports. The structures may help explain how and when genes turn on and off.
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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.
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I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News in Washington.
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