Tuesday Briefing: Donald Trump’s Running Mate

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Tuesday Briefing: Donald Trump’s Running Mate

Donald Trump named J.D. Vance as his running mate

Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, a political newcomer who was once an outspoken critic of Donald Trump, was chosen to be his candidate for vice president.

Trump made the announcement yesterday as Republicans formally nominated him to run for president, and two days after he survived an attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Vance, 39, a former Marine and author of the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” entered the Senate just last year. He harshly denounced Trump during his 2016 campaign, even texting a former Yale roommate that he feared Trump could be “America’s *******.”

But after Vance embraced Trump’s ***** about a stolen election, Trump supported him in his senate race. After winning his seat, Vance became a reliable pro-Trump voice in Congress. He has shown that he can energize donors, and his youth could help the ticket at a time when voters have deep concerns about the ages of Trump, 78, and President Biden, 81. Here’s what else to know about him.

The ************** attempt: The F.B.I. said it had gained access to the cellphone data of the man who tried to ************ Trump. Attention remained focused on the Secret Service’s apparent ******** to secure the rally site. Here’s the latest.

The race: The latest New York Times/Siena College polls found that Biden is trailing Trump in Pennsylvania and is just slightly ahead in Virginia, two must-win states.

A judge threw out the documents case against Trump

A federal judge ruled yesterday that the secret documents case against Donald Trump should be dismissed because the appointment of the special counsel who brought the charges had violated the Constitution.

The stunning ruling by Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, flew in the face of court decisions reaching back to Watergate. The indictment was once considered to be the most straightforward of the four ********* cases Trump has faced. Here’s the latest.

The special counsel, Jack Smith, will almost certainly appeal the decision. If Trump wins the election in November, he could ask the Justice Department to dismiss the charges.

Background: Trump was charged with illegally holding onto a trove of highly sensitive state secrets after he left office and then obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them. Here’s where the three other ********* cases against him stand.

******** leaders meet as the economy slows

China’s economy grew 0.7 percent in the second quarter over the previous three months, below the expectations of most economists, according to data released yesterday. The

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put pressure on ******** leaders who gathered in Beijing for a four-day meeting to set a course for the country’s economic future.

The Olympic torch arrived on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in a custom-made Louis Vuitton suitcase, not long before the Games begin on July 26.

The flame’s long journey across France and its overseas departments was meant to be a joyous celebration of the first Olympic Games held in Paris for a century. Instead, France has endured a season of bitter division.

Lives lived: Jacqueline de Jong, a Dutch artist who was at the forefront of a 1960s avant-garde movement, has *****. She was 85.

CONVERSATION STARTERS ARTS AND IDEAS In Japan, a bag for books, pencils and tradition

As a child at an international school in Tokyo, my colleague Motoko Rich, The Times’s Japan bureau chief, envied the “supercool leather backpacks,” or randoseru, of ********* kids — so much that, as an ****** in Brooklyn, she bought one on

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for her daughter.

When she relocated to Japan as an ******, “randoseru were just part of the normal visual landscape,” she said, adding, “Rarely did I see an elementary child with any other kind of school bag.”

No one mandates that students use these backpacks, but strong social norms lead most families to purchase them for their children. It was only when a Korean journalist compared wearing the bag to having to carry days’ worth of rations in a backpack during his army service that she thought of writing about the randoseru “as a microcosm of ********* culture,” Motoko said, “this large burden carried by children, but also a representation of remarkable consistency and entrenched traditions.”

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