The Justice Department obtained an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post.

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Friday, October 10th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

A grand jury in Virginia indicted James yesterday on one count of bank fraud and one count of making a false statement.

The Justice Department has accused her of committing mortgage fraud when she purchased a property in Virginia.

James called the charges baseless and accused President Trump of weaponizing the justice system.

James won a civil fraud case against Trump, his company and family last year in New York.

James is the second official to be charged in the Eastern District of

Virginia since Trump pushed out the top prosecutor there and replaced him with his close ally,

Lindsay Halligan. Halligan presented the case against James to the grand jury in Alexandria herself.

That's unusual and suggests that the office struggled

to find a career attorney willing to take on the assignment. One senior attorney in the office

indicated to her staff in recent days that she believed the case was weak and did not want to

present it to a grand jury. Halligan also obtained an indictment two weeks ago against former FBI director James Comey.

That was on two charges, including making a false statement to Congress.

Comey has pleaded not guilty.

Number two, President Trump said he will travel to Egypt to attend the signing of a Gaza ceasefire deal.

Yesterday, Israeli ministers approved an initial ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza.

That has set into motion the first part of a plan that, if carried out successfully, would end the two-year-long war.

And Trump is eager to claim credit.

Yesterday, a senior White House official told the post that Trump used maximum pressure against

Israel to force the U.S. ally to accept the deal. Trump plans to travel to Egypt where the deal

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