Monday Briefing – The New York Times

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Monday Briefing – The New York Times

‘Defiant in the face of wickedness’

Shots rang out at a Trump rally 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.!” See a visual timeline of the *********.

For the first time in more than four decades, a man who was elected president of the U.S. was wounded in an ************** attempt. The ********* ******* one man, injured Trump and critically wounded two others. Secret Service snipers ******* the assailant. Here’s what to know.

F.B.I. agents are now investigating the ********* as a possible domestic terrorism ******* and ************** attempt. The officials said that they had found no indication that the 20-year-old gunman, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pa., was part of any larger plot, and that their top priority was determining his motive.

The officials said they had not uncovered evidence that the shooter, a registered ***********, had mental health issues. They said that his phone, rifle and a possible “rudimentary” explosive device found among his possessions had been sent to the bureau’s lab in Quantico, Va. The shooter’s family was cooperating with the investigation, the F.B.I. said.

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.”

Trump: The former president said that a bullet had pierced his right ear, and he vowed to remain “defiant in the face of wickedness.” He was able to walk off his plane unaided when it landed in New Jersey hours later. Trump is set to be formally nominated at the *********** National Convention, beginning in Milwaukee today.

Biden: In a short Oval Office address last night, President Biden condemned the *******, urging Americans to “lower the temperature.” He added: “Politics must never be a literal battlefield and, **** forbid, a ******** field.” He said he had demanded a national security review and promised to share the results with the ********* people.

Doubts after a major ******** airstrike

A large ******** airstrike in southern Gaza on Saturday targeted Muhammad Deif, ******’s top military commander. A day later, his fate was uncertain: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of ******* said that there was still no “absolute certainty” on whether Deif had been *******, and a ****** official who lives in exile suggested that he was still alive.

The ******** military and the Shin Bet domestic security agency said that Rafa Salameh, an important ****** leader and another target of the *******, had been *******. In total, at least 90 people were also ******* in the strike, about half of them women and children, and 300 were wounded, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Details: Deif is the second most senior ****** figure in Gaza, after the group’s leader in the territory, Yahya Sinwar. He is considered one of the architects of the Oct. 7 ******* on ******* that prompted the war in Gaza, now in its 10th month.

Cease-*****: After weeks of an impasse, talks recently resumed for an agreement that would see the roughly 120 hostages remaining in Gaza exchanged for ************ prisoners. How the strike might affect those already fragile talks was not immediately clear.

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Lives lived: Shannen Doherty, who starred in the 1990s television dramas “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Charmed,” ***** on Saturday at 53.

Pressing for change from afar

The Russian writer known as Boris Akunin has sold at least 30 million books in Russia, many of them featuring the detective Erast Fandorin. Long a vocal critic of the Kremlin, Akunin has for the last decade lived in exile after leaving in 2014 to protest Russia’s ******** annexation of Crimea.

Since relocating to London, 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.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, “I have to say, the amount of work and writing I’ve been doing over these two terrible years, never in my life have I written so much,” he told an audience in London, describing how a writing binge trumped a drinking binge. “It is a form of escapism.”

That’s it for today’s briefing. See you tomorrow. — Natasha

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