United States Politics and Government

• Key Takeaways After Indiana Lawmakers Defy Trump’s Redistricting Push - President Trump’s failure to ram through a Republican-friendly House map was a new sign that his iron grip on the party has slipped, and was likely to reverberate nationally.
• Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws - The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
• Indiana Lawmakers Reject Trump’s New Political Map - Republicans hold an overwhelming majority in the Indiana Senate, but more than a dozen of them defied the president’s wishes, voting against a map aimed at adding Republicans in Congress.
• A Grand Jury Again Declines to Re-Indict Letitia James - It was a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign.
• Bessent Accelerates Regulation Overhaul to Jumpstart Growth - The Treasury Secretary unveiled changes to the Financial Stability Oversight Council to ease “overregulation.”
• U.S. Helped to Weaken Report at U.N. Environment Talks, Participants Say - American officials joined Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran in objecting to language on fossils fuels, biodiversity and plastics in a report that was three years in the making.
• Judge Orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Release From ICE Detention - The judge said it was “troubling” that the Trump administration had kept Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in custody for nearly four months without following through on its pledge to re-expel him.
• Trump Gets to Pick a New Fed Chair but a Divided Board Still Gets a Say - President Trump wants substantially lower borrowing costs, but officials at the central bank appear ready to resist delivering further cuts if the economic backdrop does not warrant it.
• FEMA Is Forcing Towns to Fend for Themselves, and Trump Opens ‘Gold Card’ Visa Applications - Plus, the secret to selling 150 million books.
• Trump Doesn’t Want to Talk About Affordability. Democrats Say That’s a Gift. - The president continues to brush off an issue that he said he would solve in his first months in office. Some Democrats say he is making the same mistake as his predecessor.