Racketeering, forgery among 13 charges in new Trump indictment

The news: Former US president Donald Trump has been charged over efforts to illegally overturn his 2020 election loss in a new indictment issued by a grand jury in Georgia.

The numbers: Prosecutors have brought 13 counts against Trump, including forgery and racketeering, and charged another 18 people including Trump's lawyer Rudi Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The case began with a phone call the former president made to a Georgia state election official to "find" votes to overturn his election loss in the state. Mr Trump denies any wrongdoing.

The context: Mr Trump is currently the frontrunner to lead the Republican Party into the 2024 election, but he currently faces criminal cases in New York, Florida and a third in Federal Court in Washington, DC.