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News Wrap: Indiana GOP votes down effort to redraw electoral maps in rare Trump rebuke

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, Indiana's GOP-led Senate voted against a plan to redraw their state's electoral maps, a grand jury again refused to bring a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud, Kilmar Abrego Garcia left an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania after a federal judge's order and U.S. health officials report rising cases of the measles. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

We'll start the day's other headlines with a rare Republican rebuke of one of President Trump's priorities.

0:06.0

Indiana's Republican-led Senate voted this afternoon against a plan to redraw its state's electoral map.

0:12.0

19-Eyes, 31 knows this bill has been defeated.

0:16.0

21 Republicans joined all 10 Democrats in voting down the measure outside the chamber.

0:21.7

Critics of the redistricting plan celebrated.

0:24.5

The vote comes after months of pressure from President Trump, who has been pushing Republican-led

0:29.3

states to redraw their maps ahead of next year's midterm elections.

0:33.3

A grand jury in Virginia has again refused to bring a new indictment against New York

0:38.4

Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud. It's the second time in about a week that

0:43.1

the Justice Department has failed to resurrect its case against James. Last month, a judge

0:48.3

threw out an original indictment, finding that the prosecutor in the case, Lindsay Halligan,

0:53.0

had been illegally appointed to her role.

0:55.8

A similar case against another of President Trump's perceived foes.

0:59.7

Former FBI director James Comey was also dismissed last month for similar reasons.

1:05.0

Kilmar Abrago-Gar Garcia has left an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania

1:09.0

after a federal judge in Maryland ordered

1:11.4

his release, saying his months-long detention was troubling. The native of El Salvador and Maryland

1:17.3

resident was mistakenly deported by the administration this past spring and then returned to the U.S.

1:22.7

in June to face human smuggling charges, which he denies. The White House says it will appeal his release.

1:28.6

It comes as the administration's immigration policies were under scrutiny by lawmakers today.

1:33.7

Joe Biden left us with... I'm not asking about Joe Biden. I'm asking you a specific question.

1:37.6

In a contentious House hearing, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam defended the Trump

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