The New York grand jury hearing evidence about former president Donald Trump's role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is unlikely to consider the case again this week, a law enforcement source says.
The Manhattan District Attorney's office has been presenting evidence since January to the grand jury about possible crimes related to a $193,800 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Here's the latest.
Will Trump be indicted this week?
Any potential vote on an indictment probably won't happen until next week at the earliest, the source told Reuters.
It's not clear when the grand jury, which meets Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons (local time), will take up the matter again.
What's happening in the case?
On Monday, a former National Enquirer publisher testified for the second time before the panel, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The publisher, David Pecker, had offered to help Mr Trump in the run-up to the November 2016 election by buying rights to unflattering stories and not publishing them, a practice known as "catch and kill."
Mr Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen testified the previous week.
Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal charges stemming from the pay-off and went to prison for the campaign finance violation, among other crimes.
Lawyer Robert Costello, a former legal advisor to Cohen, also testified before the grand jury last week.
When will the case wrap up?
The Manhattan district attorney's office, which is leading the investigation, has taken several steps watchers have interpreted as signalling that it could be close to wrapping up, including inviting Mr Trump to testify.
Still, the exact status of the probe remains unclear, and it's possible that the schedule could be complicated by the Passover holiday next week.
What has Trump said about his potential arrest?
Mr Trump falsely claimed on March 18 that he would be arrested over the case last Tuesday and has warned of potential "death and destruction" if he faces criminal charges.
On Saturday, Mr Trump used his first election rally in Waco, Texas, to rail against the prosecutors investigating him, employing dark and conspiratorial language to fire up his base ahead of next year's Republican primary elections.
Mr Trump told supporters that the investigations swirling around him were "something straight out of the Stalinist Russia horror show".
"From the beginning, it's been one witch hunt and phoney investigation after another," Mr Trump said.
What about the other investigations into Trump?
Mr Trump faces several other criminal investigations, including one tied to the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol by his supporters.
He continues to claim falsely that his 2020 defeat was the result of fraud.
Now, a federal judge has ruled that former vice-president Mike Pence will have to testify before a grand jury in the Justice Department's investigation into the Capitol riot, two sources told the Associated Press.
The ruling says Mr Pence won't have to answer questions about his actions on January 6, but he will have to testify about any potentially illegal acts committed by the former president, one of the people said.
Mr Pence and his attorneys had cited constitutional grounds in challenging a grand jury subpoena issued weeks ago.
They argued that, because he was serving in his capacity as president of the Senate that day, he was protected from being forced to testify under the US constitution's “speech or debate” clause, which is intended to protect members of Congress from questioning about official legislative acts
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