Good morning. We’re covering Donald Trump’s court appearance and a deadly strike on Ukrainian civilians. |
 | | Donald Trump arrived at the Miami courthouse yesterday.Saul Martinez for The New York Times |
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In an indictment unsealed on Friday and laying out 37 charges against Trump, the former president was described as showing off sensitive information to visitors, haphazardly storing boxes of secret papers around his Florida estate and lying to federal investigators. |
Trump was booked but was not handcuffed, and he did not have to submit to a mug shot. Small groups of pro-Trump protesters gathered outside the courthouse in Miami for the arraignment, the second time that Trump surrendered to authorities this year. |
In April, he pleaded not guilty to a case brought by Manhattan prosecutors in which he is accused of orchestrating a hush-money scheme in advance of the 2016 election. Those charges are not as serious as the ones stemming from the latest indictment. |
 | | An image from the indictment shows boxes of documents piled in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate.via Department of Justice |
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A trial could be months away, our Washington correspondent, Charlie Savage, said. However, he added, “we think the Justice Department is going to try to get this over with as quickly as possible, hopefully before the Republican presidential primary” that formally kicks off next year. |
Trump may try to delay the trial until after the U.S. elections in November of next year. “It is possible that he will be president again, or that another Republican nominee will be president,” Charlie said. Once a new president takes office, Charlie said, that person could end the case against Trump. |
Precedent: There have been about a dozen cases involving the mishandling of classified information in recent years. Many of them ended in prison sentences. |
 | | A Russian missile heavily damaged this residential building in Kryvyi Rih yesterday.Reuters |
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Russia hits Zelensky’s hometown |
At least 11 people were killed in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih yesterday when Russian forces struck a warehouse and an apartment building. The city, which is the hometown of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was already grappling with the aftermath of the Kakhovka dam disaster. |
After a week of giving ground in the opening phase of Kyiv’s counteroffensive, Russian forces struck back in an area where Ukraine had earlier announced it had retaken several villages. |
In Washington, the Biden administration was expected to announce a $325 million military aid package that would include Bradley and Stryker armored fighting vehicles, as well as more rockets for the HIMARS mobile system and more air-defense missiles. At least eight Bradleys were abandoned by Ukrainian troops or destroyed in the early days of the counteroffensive, based on videos and photographs verified by The Times. |
Other developments in the war: |
 | | Kulwinder Kaur milks cows for her in-laws, who are both bedridden. “I am just like a servant in his house,” she said.Priyadarshini Ravichandran for The New York Times |
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Our correspondent spoke to 12 women who described a troubling pattern. The situation, they said, often plays out like this: Parents arrange to marry their daughter off to an Indian returning from a job overseas. They pay a dowry and cover the cost of a lavish wedding followed by a honeymoon. |
The husband then flies out of the country, and the wife waits for a visa while living with her in-laws. The in-laws demand money to secure the visa, but it never arrives. The wife, who is often illiterate, is kept under constant surveillance. |
A widespread problem: A former judge who headed a commission looking into the issue in Punjab said there were 30,000 such cases in that state alone. While there are few legal remedies available in these situations, eight women have filed a petition with the Supreme Court to press India to enact policies that address their plight. |
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 | | A fresco depicts a physician removing an arrow from Aeneas’s thigh. NYPL, via Science Source |
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Medical remedies have improved since the first century, but surgical instruments are surprisingly similar. Scalpels, needles, tweezers, probes, hooks, chisels and drills are as much part of today’s standard medical kit as they were then. |
Lives lived: Cormac McCarthy, a bard of the American West, wrote “All the Pretty Horses,” which won a National Book Award, and “The Road,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. He died at 89. |
 | | The mushroom cloud from a nuclear bomb test in 1952.Reuters |
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Many experts are warning about A.I. technology — just as others once did about the atomic bomb. But some argue that we should see A.I. as a tool, much as nuclear energy can be seen as an alternative to fossil fuels. |
To take stock of comparisons, here’s a quiz: Are these statements about A.I. or nuclear technology? |
1. “We are drifting toward a catastrophe beyond comparison.” |
2. “The rise of _______ will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which.” |
3. “If any major military power pushes ahead with _______ development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable.” |
 | | Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. |
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In the French drama “Scarlet,” a father raises his daughter in the turmoil after World War I. |
That’s it for today’s briefing. See you next time. — Amelia and Justin |
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