Indictments All Around. Here's Your GIFcap of This Week's News.

"It's a witch hunt."

It's been a week of indictments, jury verdicts, and protests. Here's your GIFcap of this week's news.

1. Texas state leaders on Mon. called for the passage of gun reform in wake of Sat.'s mass shooting at a mall in Allen.

160+ activists gathered in the state Capitol Mon. to call on the state House to advance House Bill 2744. (ABC News)

What is House Bill 2744? The bill would raise the age to buy assault rifle-style weapons from 18 to 21. (ABC News)

The Community Safety Committee voted 8-5 Mon. to send the bill to the House floor for a vote. (Texas Tribune)

2. A Manhattan jury on Tue. found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. (CNN)

The jury ordered Trump to pay $5M in damages to Carroll. Trump filed an appeal on Thu.. (Politico)

Carroll said in a statement Tue.: "Today, the world finally knows the truth."

3. NY Rep. George Santos was charged Tue. with 13 counts of federal financial crimes, including money laundering. (CNN)

Santos's 13 charges (CNN): ⚖️7: wire fraud ⚖️3: money laundering ⚖️1: theft of public funds ⚖️2: lying to Congress

Santos was arraigned in court on Wed.: he pleaded not guilty to all charges. (CNN)

4. Title 42, a pandemic-era immigration policy enacted under Trump, expired Thu. after three years.

What was Title 42 exactly? Title 42 was a COVID-era policy that allowed the US to expel asylum-seekers at the border. (AP)

Trump enacted the policy in 2020 using a 1944 law that allowed for immigration restrictions in the name of public health.

2.8M+ asylum-seekers were turned away at the border under Title 42, according to the Associated Press.