Criminal charges

• House Speaker Mike Johnson dodges as Trump DOJ targets the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell - Johnson says ‘all of us need to reserve judgment’
• Russia frees French political scholar in a prisoner swap for a basketball player - Laurent Vinatier, a French political scholar serving a three-year sentence in Russia and facing new charges of espionage, has been freed in a prisoner swap with France, a Russian security agency said Thursday. In exchange, Russian basketba