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20 states are suing the Trump administration over cuts to long-term housing for people without

permanent homes.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports a funding shift comes with new restrictions that states say are illegal.

The federal housing agency HUD wants to shift billions of dollars away from permanent

housing toward transitional housing, and it says it will deny funding to programs that promote

DEI, acknowledge people who are transgender or non-binary, or don't cooperate with federal

immigration enforcement. The lawsuit by the mostly

Democratic-led states says those conditions are unlawful, and it says Congress mandated that

homelessness funding be distributed based solely on need. HUD's secretary Scott Turner has said

the funding changes are about promoting self-sufficiency. Advocates for ending homelessness

say the overhaul could push 170,000 people back onto the streets. Jennifer Lutton, NPR News, Washington.

The Georgia criminal case against President Trump and more than a dozen of his allies for their

efforts to try to overturn the 2020 election result is

officially over. A judge has dismissed the case in its entirety after a special prosecutor

moved to drop all charges. Here's NPR Sam Greenglass. The prosecution was the last outstanding

criminal case against the president after a pair of federal prosecutions were

dropped earlier this year. In 2023, a grand jury in Fulton County charged Trump and 18 others in a

sweeping racketeering case, spurred in part by Trump's call to Georgia's Secretary of State asking

him to find votes. Pete Scandalakis, director of the state prosecuting

attorneys counsel, took over the case after a court disqualified Fulton County District

attorney Fawney Willis over an alleged conflict of interest, stemming from an improper

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