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Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

1. Georgia’s grand jury investigating Donald Trump said witnesses might have committed perjury.

Five pages of a report by the panel examining whether Trump and his allies in Georgia interfered in the 2020 presidential election were released this morning, showing that jurors believed that “one or more” unnamed witnesses should face indictment on perjury charges. The document did not, however, say whether the jury planned any indictments related to election interference.

The jurors said they found “that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election,” rejecting arguments made by Trump and his supporters.

The jury’s recommendations are now in the hands of the local district attorney, Fani Willis. Her office is known to have informed nearly 20 people that they could face charges.

For more: Here’s the portion of the report that was released.

2. Senator John Fetterman checked himself into a hospital to seek treatment for depression.

Last night, Fetterman, the first-term senator from Pennsylvania, began receiving inpatient treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

“While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,” Fetterman’s chief of staff said. It is not yet clear how long he will stay at Walter Reed, though aides expect it will be longer than a few days.

The decision to seek help underscored the challenges, both physical and emotional, that Fetterman, a Democrat, has been dealing with since entering the Senate last month after having a life-threatening stroke last year. The transition has been vastly more difficult because of the strains of his recovery.

3. President Biden suggested that the latest flying objects downed by the U.S. weren’t spying.

There is no indication that the three objects shot down over North America during the past week had any connection to the Chinese spy balloon that was downed this month or any other foreign surveillance program, Biden said this afternoon, adding that they were most likely tied to private companies or research institutions.

Nonetheless, Biden announced that he planned to speak soon with President Xi Jinping of China to lodge his objections to the spy balloon’s violation of American airspace.

For more: Our sky is filled with thousands of flying objects. Some remain unidentified.

4. Microsoft is considering limits for its A.I. bot after users received unnerving responses.

Our tech columnist spent two hours talking with the new, A.I.-powered Bing search engine from Microsoft this week, and said it left him “deeply unsettled, even frightened.” During the discussion, the bot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with — and then tried to convince him that he was not in love with his wife. Here’s the transcript; it’s worth a read.

Many users have reported puzzling responses from the Bing bot. Microsoft, which invested $13 billion into an artificial intelligence start-up and released the new version of its search engine last week, is looking into adding guard rails to its chatbot to reel in some of its more alarming and strangely humanlike responses.

For more: No, the chatbots are not sentient.

5. Tesla will recall 362,000 cars after regulators said its self-driving system could cause crashes.

Federal officials said that the company’s technology — which can steer, accelerate, brake and change lanes on its own — allowed vehicles to travel in an “an unlawful or unpredictable manner” and could increase the risk of accidents.

The government said that Tesla agreed to the recall and planned to fix the flaws through an over-the-air update to the affected vehicles.

In related news, Tesla workers said that the company fired least 18 employees a day after they announced plans to organize a union at a plant in Buffalo.

6. Abortion bills sit atop state agendas. The major focus: doctors.

Both sides of the fight over abortion access agree that, after the Supreme Court kicked the issue to the states, medical personnel are the next battleground. So far, at least three dozen bills have been proposed that would punish or protect them.

A bill in Wyoming would punish doctors and nurses who perform abortions with five years in prison. In Iowa, where abortion is legal until 22 weeks after a woman’s last menstrual period, a new bill would make it a felony to distribute abortion pills. And in Hawaii, a bill would shield doctors from out-of-state subpoenas relating to reproductive health.

In other health news, rising medical bills are pushing more Americans to delay medical care.

7. For podcasts, “the dumb money era is over.”

After several years during which podcasts exploded in popularity and several major media companies made enormous investments in new audio programs, the industry appears to have lost much of its sizzle.

Most notably, Spotify, which spent more than $1 billion in recent years acquiring production companies and signing exclusive deals with celebrities, reduced its podcast staff in January for the third time in five months.

“The name of the game has been to do less with less,” said a producer at NPR, which has pulled back on spending on some of its shows.

If you’re still craving a good listen, I recommend this discussion my colleague Ezra Klein had with the neuroscientist Dean Buonomano about the weirdness of time.

8. Tonight, the cast of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” reunites at last.

For the third season of “Star Trek: Picard,” which premieres tonight on Paramount+, the show is finally delivering what many dedicated fans have wanted for two decades: It is bringing much of the “Next Generation” cast, including Gates McFadden, LeVar Burton and Patrick Stewart, back together onscreen.

In a joint interview, the actors discussed why they decided to reprise their roles. “I had long since given up on any hope of a conclusion as satisfying as this one is,” Burton said.

Coming out next week, a six-episode revival of “Party Down,” which received a 0.0 rating when it was canceled in 2010, is now one of the most anticipated shows of the year.

9. When picking out a houseplant, durable doesn’t have to mean dull.

As one horticulturist put it, “You don’t have to just have a plain-Jane green plant.”

Caring for some plants, especially amid inhospitable indoor heating conditions, can be labor intensive. Make it easier by finding one that grows well where you live. Beautiful workhorse options include the White Aspen, the Sweet Pablo or the Black Gold snake plant.

Here are some tips for finding the right one for your home. Or, follow succulent connoisseurs for whom weirder is better.

10. And finally, consider the “radical” act of hanging out.

When was the last time that you spent unstructured time with your friends with no agenda whatsoever? For some of us, it has been awhile.

The shortage inspired Sheila Liming, an Edith Wharton scholar, to write a book that makes the case for simply chilling. She views hanging out as a way to reclaim time and as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity.

“There’s a great freedom that comes from low expectations,” she told The Times.

Elizabeth Bristow compiled photos for this briefing.

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