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Hello and welcome to your afternoon news update from AP. Today, Trump’s immunity from an IRS audit shocks experts, who warn it could undermine trust in the tax system; Secretary of State Rubio tries to assuage nervous U.S. allies in Europe about the Trump administration’s intentions; and the new debate over dough that’s dividing New York’s pizza and bagel makers.
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President Donald Trump speaks as he tours Ballroom construction around the outside the White House, Tuesday, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Experts question Trump immunity from IRS audits
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On Tuesday, the Internal Revenue Service agreed to drop all pending probes of President Donald Trump over whether he’s paid his fair share of taxes, to settle a lawsuit brought by the president over a leak of his tax returns. That could include, assuming it was ongoing, a long-standing audit into a technique Trump reportedly used to avoid paying taxes years ago that could have hit him with an estimated $100 million bill if the IRS found wrongdoing. Trump has repeatedly denied he did anything wrong and has blasted the IRS investigation as politically motivated, without providing proof. Details of IRS audits are not public and the merits of each side’s arguments are impossible to tell. But the way the president’s case against his own government’s IRS was resolved is highly unusual, experts say. Read more.
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Rubio embarks on another mission to ease tensions with allies during NATO meeting
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on his latest mission to assuage nervous U.S. allies in Europe about the Trump administration’s intentions with NATO or at least put a friendlier face on whipsawing changes and uncertainty about American troop reductions. The NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Sweden comes amid great uncertainty over how the war in Iran will play out and whether stalled U.S. efforts to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict will resume. Read more.
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WHO chief says Ebola is spreading rapidly in Congo, upgrades risk assessment
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The World Health Organization chief said Friday that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is spreading rapidly and now poses a “very high” risk there, as a lack of medical resources and anger among the population hamper the response in a vulnerable and conflict-ridden region. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the risk of global spread remains low, but that the U.N. health agency was revising upward its assessment of the risk within Congo from its previous categorization of “high.” Read more.
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A May 21 image of the Crystal Ball Nebula. (NSF NOIRLab via AP)
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A worker at Utopia Bagel preps bagels made with bromated flour, May 13, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/David R. Martin)
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Dough debate: A new law could change New York’s pizzas and bagels
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