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A federal grand jury has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge.

James calls the allegations baseless and a, quote, desperate weaponization of the justice system.

NPR's Ryan Lucas reports that the indictment comes two weeks after President Trump publicly pressured the Justice Department to prosecute some of his critics.

In Chicago, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the National Guard from being deployed in Illinois.

NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran has that report.

U.S.

futures are flat and after hours trading on Wall Street following Thursday's losses.

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Senate has voted to repeal the 2002 resolution that authorized the U.S.

invasion of Iraq.

The measure was approved by the House last month.

It restores the basic war power to Congress.

An estimated hundreds of thousands of civilians and U.S.

troops were killed in a war that was based on false claims that Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.

Election equipment company Dominion Voting Systems has been sold.

The buyer is LibertyVote, which is owned by a former Republican elections official.

As NPR's Miles Parks reports, Dominion has been at the heart of numerous conspiracy theories since the 2020 election.

Lawmakers in Peru have voted to remove President Dina Bulwart from office as a crime wave grips the South American nation.

Bulwart was summoned to appear before Congress late Thursday to defend her policies.