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NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports the I.R.S. is auditing fewer and fewer tax returns these days and that has some observers concerned that some taxpayers will be tempted to cheat. I.R.S. Chairman Charles Rossotti blamed the decline on staff shortages, antiquated computers and I.R.S. reform legislation passed in 1998.

Simon/Nocera: Scott talks to Fortune Magazine executive editor Joe Nocera about President Bush's proposal to repeal the estate tax.

The first comprehensive analysis of human DNA was formally presented at a press conference in Washington today. The two rival research groups, and the two rival journals they published in, took the stage together. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Linda Wertheimer talks wtih Vikram Parekh, Researcher on South Asia for Human Rights Watch about Human Rights Watch's lastest report, Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan, which gives eye witness accounts of a massacre in January in the central highlands of Afghanistan, as well as new evidence related to an earlier massacre last May. During both events, the victims were primarily Hazaras, a Shia Muslim ethnic group, previously targeted by Taliban forces for abuse. Afghan humanitarian aid workers were also killed.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Bill Trotter, a fishery and environmental reporter for the Bangor Daily News, about the illegal eel fishing scheme in Maine.

The Illinois House late Wednesday gave final passage to a bill that repeals the state’s Parental Notice of Abortion Act, clearing the way for Gov. JB Pritzker to sign it into law.

The Illinois House passed a measure Wednesday night that would give employers greater authority to enforce COVID-19 vaccine or testing requirements.

Chris Bolt of member station WAER in Syracuse reports that a real estate developer has plans to expand an already successful shopping mall to make it the biggest in the country. Some storeowners are worried that it may not be beneficial for them.

In the wake of last June's triumphal announcement that researchers had completed the first draft of the human genome, two of the world's leading science journals are about to unveil dozens of papers containing what might be called the "fine print" of the human instruction manual. To get in the mood, NPR's David Kestenbaum decided to find out what its takes to pull DNA out of a cell and then read it. He accepted an invitation - not to a lab, but a KITCHEN.