| Breaking: A federal judge declined to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, instead ordering a probe of the law governing the Trump Justice Department’s move to drop the case. Read more here.
Today’s newsletter comes from Magdalena del Valle: Long treated like a political football, California’s now-$128 billion high-speed rail project is under threat yet again. Its fate has been contingent on which president is occupying the White House, and now the Trump administration has launched a review of the venture — which is plagued by cost overruns and delays. The investigation by the the Federal Railroad Administration will only add to doubts over the project’s eventual completion. In 2008, the California High-Speed Rail Authority said it was supposed to cost $33 billion and begin service by 2020. But so far, only 119 miles of the planned 776-mile railroad have commenced construction, and the estimated cost has soared, Maxwell Adler reports. Today on CityLab: Trump Targets $128 Billion California High-Speed Rail Project | 
