Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked members of his political party to prepare legislation to hold elections despite the country's war with Russia, he said Tuesday, contingent on the United States and Europe providing security guarantees.

The ongoing criminal trial of Linda Sun, a former aide to two New York governors, on illegal foreign agent charges highlights what prosecutors say is China's large-scale operations to influence the U.S. government and the public at large to back Chinese Communist Party policies. What began as a case of illegal Chinese influence expanded over the past year as prosecutors added corruption charges against Ms. Sun and her husband, Chris Hu. Ms. Sun worked for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Gov. Kathy Hochul, both Democrats, and is charged with illegally using her official position to promote China's interests in blocking officials from Taiwan and curbing statements related to China's human rights abuses of Uyghur minorities. Ms. Sun and Mr. Hu have pleaded not guilty to more than 30 federal charges. Those charges include operating as an illegal Chinese agent, visa fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, bribery, conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax evasion.

A federal judge ordered President Trump to end his deployment of the California National Guard in Los Angeles, ruling Wednesday that he must return control to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). Roughly 100 troops remain in the city, and U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled that Trump illegally kept them deployed months after sending troops to combat immigration protests this summer. "The Founders designed our government to be a system of checks and balances," Breyer wrote in his 35-page opinion. "Defendants, however, make clear that the only check they want is a blank one."

A federal judge on Wednesday approved the unsealing of documents from the investigation and criminal prosecution of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The decision from Manhattan judge Richard M. Berman comes one day after a different New York judge approved the release of records in the case against Epstein's associate, Ghislane Maxwell, and one week after a third judge in Florida also approved the release of investigative materials there. The trove of documents now set to be released could provide an inside look into how the Justice Department investigated and prosecuted Epstein's alleged underworld of pedophilia, though it is not yet clear how much of the evidence will be new to the public.

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