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DNA test: Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter. Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers served notice to a Trump attorney Thursday for Trump to submit a sample on March 2.

ERA lawsuit: The attorneys general for the last three states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court arguing that the amendment must be added to the U.S. Constitution. The states are Virginia, Illinois and Nevada.

Arrest warrant: Tokyo prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Nissan’s former chairman Carlos Ghosn, who skipped bail while awaiting trial and is now in Lebanon. Japan has no extradition treaty with Lebanon, so he’s unlikely to be arrested. Lebanon has indicated it will not hand over Ghosn.

VA probe: Federal prosecutors have begun presenting evidence to a grand jury in their criminal probe of at least 11 deaths suspected of being linked to improper insulin injections at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Clarksburg, West Virginia, a sign that the 18-month investigation is intensifying, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Recession in Mexico: Mexico’s economy entered a recession in 2019, according to preliminary fourth-quarter data released by the country’s statistics institute. While Mexico had forecast that its economy would grow 2% during the first year of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s administration, it instead grew 0.1% in the first half of the year and remained stagnant in the second.