12 Dec 2023

USA correspondent Ron Elving

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 12 December 2023
Former US president Donald Trump in court during his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on 6 November 2023 in New York City.

Former US president Donald Trump in court during his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on 6 November 2023 in New York City. Photo: AFP / Getty Images / Pool

Donald Trump has changed his mind about returning to the witness stand to testify in his own defense at his civil fraud trial in New York.

And in Texas, the Supreme Court has temporarily halted a lower court's order that would have allowed a pregnant Dallas woman, whose fetus has lethal abnormality, to get an abortion.

Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News.