Good morning. We’re covering the fate of abortion access in the U.S., the evacuation of survivors from a Mariupol steel plant and the Met Gala. |
 | | Abortion rights advocates surrounded anti-abortion activists in front of the Supreme Court yesterday.Leigh Vogel for The New York Times |
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The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of a leaked draft ruling that would overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, which established a constitutional right to abortion almost 50 years ago. |
The court stressed that the draft opinion, which indicated that the court would let individual states determine abortion’s legality, could change before it is finalized. On Monday night, after Politico broke the news, protesters gathered outside the court. |
Analysis: The decision would culminate a decades-long campaign by conservatives who argue that life begins at conception and that the Roe decision invented a right that did not exist in the Constitution. |
 | | Evacuees from Mariupol arrived in Zaporizhzhia, in southeastern Ukraine, yesterday.Lynsey Addario for The New York Times |
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Mariupol survivors reach safety |
Just over 150 women and children who hid for weeks in bunkers below the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol, Ukraine, arrived on buses in Ukrainian-held territory. The plant had been subject to an incessant Russian bombing campaign. |
“They slammed us from all sides,” an elderly woman said, adding that the sun burned her eyes after so many days underground. |
Just after international negotiators left with the evacuees, Russian forces resumed its shelling of the steel plant and continued to bombard targets across parts of Ukraine’s south and east. On Tuesday, missiles also hit Lviv, a city in the west, knocking out power. |
Russia may also try to use sham elections to annex the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the east and the Kherson region in the south, U.S. officials said. Here are live updates. |
Tactics: Russia could be doing more to interrupt weapons shipments, destroy infrastructure around Kyiv and inflict pain on the West. Noting Moscow’s relative restraint, Western analysts wonder whether a bigger mobilization is to come. |
 | | Steve Johnson arrived at the Supreme Court in Sydney, Australia, on Monday with his sisters, Terry and Rebecca, and his wife, Rosemarie, second from right.Rick Rycroft/Associated Press |
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Sentence for an anti-gay murder |
An Australian man who was convicted of an anti-gay killing was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday. It had taken a long time for the case to come to justice. |
In 1988, Scott Johnson, a gay American graduate student, was found dead at the bottom of a cliff frequented by gay men. He had gone there with Scott White, the man who was convicted, after they met at a Sydney pub. |
At first, the police ruled the case a suicide. But Johnson’s brother, Steve, was skeptical. |
After he became aware of a 2005 inquest into three similar deaths from the same period, Steve petitioned for further inquests, which overturned the suicide ruling and concluded that Scott was the victim of a hate crime. |
Background: Between 1970 and 2010, at least 88 gay people were killed by local gangs. Former officials have said the police at that time were often hostile toward gay men and did not properly investigate their deaths. |
What’s next: Last year, the New South Wales government announced an inquiry into these deaths, and police investigations continue. |
 | | The Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan sits in East Jerusalem, below the Old City walls.Amit Elkayam for The New York Times |
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 | | Outside a “two dishes and rice” restaurant in the Sham Shui Po area of Hong Kong in February.Billy H.C. Kwok for The New York Times |
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Hong Kong has always been a food city. Now people of all social classes are flocking to bare-bones “two dishes and rice” restaurants. The cheap Cantonese comfort food served up is a welcome respite from two years of political upheaval, economic downturn and seemingly endless pandemic restrictions. |
 | | Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson at the Met Gala.Nina Westervelt for The New York Times |
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On Monday, artistic elites flocked to New York City for the party of the year: The Met Gala, a black-tie fund-raiser for the museum’s Costume Institute. (Here’s a slide show.) |
Gold, unsurprisingly, took center stage, as stars riffed on the theme of “gilded glamour.” But designers also took inspiration from the late 19th century, an age of opulence, excess and morally dubious celebrity. |
There were corsets, feathers and tiaras, capes, opera gloves and trains. Some paid homage to New York itself: Blake Lively, a co-host, unfurled a skirt adorned with constellations from the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal. |
And Alicia Keys sported the soaring silhouettes of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building on her hem, “a nod to the equally soaring ambitions of the industrialists whose dicey legacy built this town,” Vanessa Friedman, our chief fashion critic, writes in an appraisal. |
But when it came to channeling history, Kim Kardashian, making the final entrance of the evening, topped them all by shoehorning herself into Marilyn Monroe’s glittery, nude “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress. (She changed into a copy for dinner.) |
 | | Yasmin Fahr’s spicy chickpea and shrimp salad.Christopher Simpson for The New York Times |
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That’s it for today’s briefing. See you next time. — Amelia |
P.S. Seth Kugel is the new columnist for “Tripped Up,” an advice column that helps readers navigate the world of travel. |
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