Monday Briefing: An Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump

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Monday Briefing: An ************** Attempt on Donald Trump

Donald Trump survived an ************** attempt

The shots rang out as Donald Trump was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday night. The former president clutched his right ear, spurting blood, then ducked for cover as his supporters screamed and Secret Service agents leaped on top of him.

Within moments, someone shouted “shooter down,” and the agents began moving Trump offstage. He pumped his fist in the air and seemed to shout “******! ******!” as the crowd erupted with chants of “U.S.A.!”

For the first time in more than four decades, a man who was elected president of the U.S. had been wounded in an ************** attempt. Here’s what to know.

After Secret Service snipers ******* the shooter, Trump was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. A spectator was *******, and two others were critically wounded, authorities said.

Not long after, Trump wrote on his social media platform that he had been “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.” He also expressed condolences to the family of the man who was *******, Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old volunteer firefighter with two daughters. The two other victims remained hospitalized yesterday.

Trump’s campaign said he planned to move ahead with the *********** National Convention, which begins today in Milwaukee.

The F.B.I. identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pa., a 20-year-old dietary aide at a nursing facility. The Secret Service said the shooter had fired from an elevated position outside the rally venue, and law enforcement officials recovered near his body an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle that Crooks’s father had purchased. A Times analysis of videos indicated that eight shots were fired from a rooftop 330 to 390 feet from where Trump was speaking.

Investigators yesterday discovered, in a car belonging to Crooks, materials to build explosive devices. Senior F.B.I. officials said yesterday that they were investigating the ********* as a possible domestic terrorism ******* and attempted **************, but that they had no reason to believe it was part of a larger plot. Here’s what is known about the suspect.

World leaders and elected officials condemned the *********, and some prominent Trump backers accused Democrats of inflammatory rhetoric that incited the *******. The Biden campaign suspended its television advertising, and the Trump campaign warned staffers to avoid “dangerous rhetoric on social media.”

****** leader’s fate unknown after an ******** airstrike

The fate of ******’s top military commander remained unclear after ******* conducted a major airstrike on Saturday in southern Gaza, ******** at least 90 people, about half of them women and children, the Gaza Health Ministry said.

The intended target was Muhammad Deif, an architect of ******’s Oct. 7 *******, the second most senior official in ****** and the leader of its military wing. ******** officials said that the ******* had ******* Rafa Salameh, the leader of ****** forces in the southern city of Khan Younis. ****** has denied that either man ***** in the *******.

The strike hit Mawasi, a “humanitarian zone” where the U.N. said hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought shelter. How the airstrike might affect fragile cease-***** talks was not immediately clear, but a member of ******’s political bureau rejected a news report that the group had decided to halt the negotiations.

The lead-up to the wedding of the younger son of Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, would have awed Jay Gatsby. Artists like Rihanna and Katy Perry performed for guests like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg at pre-wedding celebrations, which included a four-day Mediterranean cruise — the bride-to-be said the couple couldn’t find a large enough venue on land.

Those extravagant celebrations offered a peek into the upper echelon of India’s Gilded Age. The wedding took place over the weekend, with guests like Kim and Khloé Kardashian and John Cena. Here’s what we know.

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Therapeutic estrangement: Some therapists, many on social media, are encouraging children to cut off “toxic” family relationships.

****** birds: ********* Oystercatchers, orange-billed shorebirds, are battling a fleet of drones that New York City officials have deployed to scan for sharks or swimmers in distress.

An exiled Russian novelist works to transform his home

The writer known as Boris Akunin has sold at least 30 million books in Russia, many of them featuring Erast Fandorin, a detective considered the Russian Sherlock Holmes. Long a vocal critic of the Kremlin, Akunin left Russia in 2014 to protest the country’s ******** annexation of Crimea, and he has contemplated how cultural figures abroad can spur change at home.

Akunin’s work was still widely available in Russia until last December, when pro-Kremlin pranksters pretending to be Ukrainian officials recorded him supporting Ukraine’s defense. After the recording was released, the Russian government essentially ended the distribution of his books.

Despite the obstacles, Akunin said he was still pressing for change at home, and writing more than ever.

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