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Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in federal court in Miami yesterday that he risked exposing defense secrets and obstructed government efforts to recover classified documents he took with him when he left office. The former president was booked but not handcuffed, and he didn’t have to submit to a mug shot.

His personal assistant Walt Nauta, who is accused of lying to investigators and conspiring with Trump to hide boxes of classified documents, also appeared before the magistrate but did not enter a plea. A lawyer from Nauta asked for a two-week extension because he needed a local lawyer to sponsor him.

Trump was represented in court by Christopher Kise, a former Florida attorney general, and Todd Blanche, a prominent New York lawyer. His legal team has been on the move since two other lawyers representing him resigned shortly after the indictment was made public. Jack Smith, the special counsel who filed the suit, also attended the hearing.

The race of 2024: The charges will not stop Trump from running for president. He is currently leading an increasingly crowded Republican field.

Next steps: According to our Washington correspondent Charlie Savage, a lawsuit could take months. However, he added, “we think the Justice Department will try to get this over with as soon as possible, hopefully before the Republican presidential primaries.” Trump may try to postpone the trial until after the US election in November next year.

Claims: Hours after leaving court, Trump defended his behavior with a series of well-known falsehoods. Here’s a fact check.

Russian air and artillery weapons struck back against advancing Ukrainian troops yesterday, hammering them into the area of ​​several southern villages that the Ukrainian army had recaptured last week in the opening stages of Kiev’s counter-offensive. The attack reduced a village to ruins.

After claiming to have recaptured a series of farming villages over the weekend, Ukraine’s military announced only minimal gains yesterday, and the Russian attack on Ukraine’s vanguard suggested Kiev’s troops faced a dangerous problem. Separately, a Russian missile strike killed at least 11 people in Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelensky, about 100 miles from the eastern frontline.

Conflicting claims made it difficult to assess the situation on the battlefield, but Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, acknowledged that his forces had suffered some losses this month, including 54 tanks. He denied Ukraine’s claims of progress on the battlefield.

Plan: Putin wavered over whether he could order another mobilization, like the one last fall that enlisted some 300,000 men and displaced tens of thousands more. He said he was aware of calls for another major design, but added that “there was no need today”.

According to residents and local police, more than 100 people, many of them returning from a wedding ceremony, have died after a riverboat carrying them capsized in Nigeria on Monday morning.

The boat, which was sailing along the Niger River in the western state of Kwara, “capsized in complete darkness and we were not alerted until hours later,” Okasanmi Ajayi, a police spokesman, said. More than 100 people had been rescued and the search continued, he said, but authorities had yet to determine the cause of the accident.

Riverboat accidents are a recurring problem in Nigeria, where overloading, lax safety regulations, poor maintenance and the lack of life jackets often lead to fatalities. Night sailing is banned, but the ban is still poorly enforced.

Geography: The 4,200 km long Niger, the most important river in West Africa, is an important regional trade route. It is the third longest river in Africa, after the Nile and Congo.

Tens of thousands of Indian women have been abandoned by husbands working abroad, leaving many of them confined to their in-laws’ homes in accordance with local custom, even for decades.

Some women left behind by husbands are victims of the unfulfilled promises of changing circumstances. Others have fallen victim to outright deception, their families defrauded of dowries, honeymoon expenses and visa payments.

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning bard of the American West, who wrote “All the Pretty Horses” and “The Road,” has passed away at the age of 89. Here’s a guide to his work.

Explanation of the English Football League’s towel ban: A closer look at the change the clubs voted for and how it will play out affect the 2023-2024 season.

Flash, glamour, VIPs: How Vegas landed an F1 Grand Prix.

From the time: A battle of words has erupted between Paris St.-Germain football club and French star, Kylian Mbappé, after he said he would not renew his contract.

To really understand the past, grab a print issue of an old magazine, preferably more than 20 years old, and read it from cover to cover, writes Brian Dillon for The Times Magazine.

“Old magazines are cheap time machines, archeologies of collective desire,” writes Brian, recalling his Dublin adolescence’s reading of mostly British magazines of music, fashion, art and literature. These, he recalls, he relied on “to keep me informed and fulfill my dreams.”

You may find the fashion, ideas, imagery and vocabulary somehow contrary to what you expected or remembered of the time. Ideally, writes Brian, you get the sense that “the past is never the cliché of the past of the present, any more than our present is purely itself, made entirely of the self-celebrating now.”

For more: Take an instant trip down memory lane with the June 14, 1983 edition from The New York Times.

That’s it for today’s briefing. Thank you for participating. — Natasha

PS The word “mojojoy” appeared for the first time this week in The Times, in a story about how four children survived a plane crash, and several weeks in the Colombian jungle.

“The Daily” is about a reckoning in major US food prices.

You can reach Natasha and the team at briefing@nytimes.com.

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