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The Justice Department plans to give Congress a redacted version of Robert Mueller’s inquiry into Russian election interference between 11 a.m. and noon Eastern.
The Times will have live updates and analysis of the findings. Here’s what to expect and a link to the special counsel’s website, where the report is to be posted after it’s delivered (1990s-style, on CDs) to Congress. We’re also planning to send a special edition of the Morning Briefing email later today.
Attorney General William Barr plans to hold a news conference at 9:30 a.m. to discuss the report before its release. Mr. Barr determined last month that President Trump did not illegally obstruct justice and said that the special counsel had found no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. But some members of Mr. Mueller’s team have told associates that the report was more troubling for Mr. Trump than Mr. Barr has indicated.
Another angle: Justice Department officials have repeatedly discussed the report’s conclusions with White House lawyers, our reporters were told, aiding the president’s legal team as it prepares a rebuttal.
In what appeared to be a warning from Kim Jong-un to President Trump, North Korea said today that it had test-fired a new type of “tactical guided weapon.” There was no evidence that the test involved a nuclear detonation or an intercontinental ballistic missile.
The two leaders have met twice, but they failed to reach an agreement in February, when Mr. Trump rejected Mr. Kim’s proposal to lift the harshest sanctions in return for North Korea’s suspending operations at its largest nuclear facility.
What’s next: Mr. Kim said recently that he would give the U. S. until the end of the year to come up with proposals that would lift sanctions, an implicit warning that North Korea might resume nuclear and intercontinental missile testing. Today’s test suggested that he might raise the stakes sooner.
Donations from wealthy French families and companies to rebuild the fire-ravaged cathedral in Paris are nearing $1 billion, intensifying the resentment that has been on display during the Yellow Vest protests about economic inequality.
“If they’re able to give dozens of millions to rebuild Notre Dame, they should stop telling us that there is no money to pay for social inequalities,” one labor union leader said.
Another angle: The Paris Fire Department’s chaplain, the Rev. Jean-Marc Fournier, has emerged as a central figure in the mission to rescue artworks and relics from the blaze. He told our reporter how more than 100 firefighters carried the precious pieces to safety.
Yesterday: A man carrying two cans of gasoline, two bottles of lighter fluid and two lighters was arrested after entering St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the police said.
