Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.

The Justice Department announced charges, including murder against former Cuban President

Raul Castro.

It comes as the Trump administration escalates pressure on the country's socialist government.

The indictment alleges Castro played a role in the 1996 shootdown of two small planes

operated by the Ex exile group Brothers to the

Rescue. Castro was Cuba's defense minister at the time. President Trump, at his companies,

may receive a free pass for any past tax problems, and perhaps immunity for even more legal

trouble as part of a settlement with the IRS for leaking his tax returns. The administration

says the Trumps won't

benefit from the deal. The critics say it's an abuse of the system, as NPR's Kerry Johnson reports.

Tax experts I interviewed say nobody else would have got this deal and that Trump and his family

could, in fact, receive financial benefits from the dropping of tax audits.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

is the one who signed off on that part of the deal. He's a former personal attorney for Trump,

but he balked at that description before Congress this week. NPR's Kerry Johnson reporting.

Two police officers who defended the Capitol during the January 6th Capitol riot are suing to stop the Trump

administration from paying rioters from a new anti-webitization fund. NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports.

Washington, D.C. police officer Daniel Hodges was repeatedly assaulted by rioters on January 6th.

President Trump pardoned the men who attacked him, and now the administration

says those rioters and others can apply for payment from a new $1.8 billion fund set up by the

Justice Department for people who believe they were victims of weaponized law enforcement.

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