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Where Things Stand
James indictment: A grand jury declined to reindict Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, rejecting efforts to revive a criminal case that had been sought by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. The unsuccessful attempt to revive the case against Ms. James does not necessarily end the administration’s efforts to put her on trial. Read more ›
Boat attack video: Top military officers showed senior members of Congress video of a Sept. 2 attack on a boat suspected of carrying drugs, and defended the follow-up strike that killed two survivors. Lawmakers left the closed-door meetings with starkly different conclusions: Democrats said the video deepened their concerns about the legality of the Trump administration’s military campaign, while several Republicans said they were satisfied it was lawful. Read more ›
Pipe bomb inquiry: A Virginia man was charged with placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of both Democratic and Republican headquarters buildings on the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, did not offer a motive, and falsely accused the Biden administration of allowing the investigation to languish. Read more ›
Trump switches architects for his White House ballroom project.
President Trump has hired a new architecture firm to oversee the design of his new ballroom, the White House said on Thursday, a move that comes after he had multiple disagreements with his original designer.
The president chose Shalom Baranes Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that has designed other government buildings, to oversee the next phase of the project, a White House spokesman, Davis R. Ingle, said in a statement. He added that the firm would join “a team of experts to carry out President Trump’s vision on building what will be the greatest addition to the White House since the Oval Office.”
Tim Walz calls Trump’s tirade against Somalis in Minnesota ‘vile.’
Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Thursday called President Trump’s recent tirades against Somalis in the state “vile,” warning that xenophobic rhetoric could lead to bloodshed.
“This creates danger,” Mr. Walz, a Democrat, told reporters during a news conference. “We know how these things go, they start with taunts, they turn to violence.”
The Trump administration cuts the length of work permits for asylum seekers and refugees.
The Trump administration said it would reduce how long work permits are valid for refugees and asylum seekers, intensifying a sweeping crackdown on legal immigration after an Afghan national was charged with the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington.
The federal government will now require some migrants to renew their work permits every 18 months instead of every five years, according to a statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Thursday. The agency said the change would help it screen and vet migrants more often, allowing it to identify people with “potentially harmful intent so they can be processed for removal.”
The Supreme Court clears the way for Republican-friendly Texas voting maps.
The Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for Texas lawmakers to use newly redrawn congressional maps favoring Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections.
The decision overturns, at least for now, a lower-court ruling that the new maps were likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. That decision had blocked lawmakers from using the maps in the midterms.
Grand jury is said to decline to re-indict Letitia James, New York State’s attorney general.
A grand jury in Norfolk, Va., declined on Thursday to re-indict Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, rejecting efforts to revive a criminal case that had been sought by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
The unsuccessful attempt to revive the case against Ms. James does not necessarily end the administration’s efforts to put her on trial, even after a federal judge dismissed an earlier indictment last month in ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was unlawfully appointed by Mr. Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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Letitia James, the New York attorney general, outside a courthouse in Norfolk, Va., in October.Credit…Allison Robbert for The New York Times
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