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President-elect Donald Trump has sub submitted his victory in Tuesday's election. All seven swing states are now in his column after the Associated Press called Arizona in his favor last night. With Trump's election to a second term as president, there are questions about what happens to the court cases against him. At the federal level, he was charged with election interference and retaining classified documents. Here's NPR's Carrie Johnson with an update. Carrie Johnson We just got a filing from the special counsel,

Jack Smith, suggesting the process of unwinding these cases has begun. They asked the judge in Washington, D.C., Tonya Chutkin, to give them until early December to offer a status report or an update because of what they called an extraordinary circumstance. This man who's been facing four felony charges in Washington, D.C., is now the president-elect, and that runs straight into a long-standing DOJ view that you cannot indict or prosecute a sitting president. Nat. Separately, in the New York hush money case, Judge Juan Marchand is expected to announce this week whether Trump's felony conviction will stand.

Groups that help people pay for abortion care in Florida are getting more donations after a ballot measure that would have expanded abortion rights failed to meet the 60 percent threshold to add it to the state constitution. Stephanie Columbini with Member Station WUSF reports. Florida's private abortion funds have been helping residents affected by the ban pay for travel out of state for care. That need will grow now, says Brie Wallace with the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund. The fund received more than $70,000 in the days after the election. People are mad and when you're mad you donate, you get out into your community, you organize,

you fundraise. Abortion funds saw similar spikes in donations after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade two years ago, but contributions fell off over time. For NPR News, I'm Stephanie Columbini in Tampa. Firefighters in Southern California taking advantage of favorable weather conditions, gaining ground on the Mountain Mop fire northwest of Los Angeles, officials allowing some residents to return home, but other displaced Ventura County residents are confronting devastating losses. Santa Canales, Maron reports.

The fire moved too fast. Juan Torres says as he recalls the harrowing moments before the mountain fire tore through his family's home in a mobile home park in the community of Somis. This is the sound of the wind that gusted up to 64 miles per hour that Wednesday. Torres managed to save three dogs which sustained burns from falling embers while other pets and belongings were left behind. After a night in the car, Torres and his family have found refuge at the American Red Cross shelter. For NPR News, I'm Susana Canales-Barrón, in Ventura,

California. And from Washington, this is NPR News. President-elect Trump's election victory is raising fresh questions about the future of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine. But there has been a fresh show of support from the European Union. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell was in Kyiv this weekend. Every day that we lose discussing about how much support are we going to provide, this is measured on Ukrainians losing lives. Morell spoke alongside top Ukrainian officials, saying the EU's support for Ukraine remains

unwavering. He urged faster deliveries of Western weapons and fewer self-imposed red lines on them. Judith Jameson has died. She was a principal dancer for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, as well as its artistic director for 21 years. Jeff London reports Jameson died Saturday at the age of 81 following a brief illness. Born in Philadelphia, Judith Jameson excelled in dance from an early age. She came to New York to perform with the American Ballet Theater and in 1964 she joined Alvin Ailey's company where she became a star. Among the dances Ailey created for her was a solo called Cry which the

choreographer dedicated to all black women everywhere especially our mothers. Jamison also appeared on Broadway and as a guest artist with many dance companies. After Ailey died in 1989, Jamison took over the company. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London in New York. And I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News from Washington.