Trump has been charged. What happens now?

Any potential trial could be more than a year away.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters View in Browser Daily Briefing After a busy day at Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, we bring you what's next for former U.S. President Donald Trump.    Plus, a Wednesday full of high-profile trips: Macron and Von der Leyen go to China, Zelenskiy arrives in Poland, and Tsai Ing-wen meets McCarthy in California.   By Edson Caldas Today's Top News Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in court for an arraignment on charges stemming from his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury, April 4, 2023. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Donald Trump was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic case. But any potential trial could be more than a year away. That raises the possibility that the former U.S. president could face a jury as he seeks a return to the White House – or even after the November 2024 election. After he pleaded not guilty, Judge Juan Merchan set the next court hearing for Dec. 4. Analysis: The long-awaited charges centering on hush money payments to suppress damaging news stories ahead of the 2016 election revealed few new details about a case that prosecutors have probed on-and-off for five years. Legal experts not involved with the case underscored that its ultimate strength will likely hinge on evidence that has not yet been made public. Back at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Trump lashed out at New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg for bringing criminal charges against him and declared himself the victim of election interference without offering evidence. Listen to today's Reuters World News podcast for more on what's next for Trump. Other leaders making headlines Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen is set to meet U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the first such meeting on U.S. soil, a plan that has drawn threats of retaliation from China. Here is why Beijing is so angry. French President Emmanuel Macron landed in China shortly ahead of EU chief Ursula von der Leyen as they seek to smooth ties with a key economic partner while broaching thorny issues like Ukraine and trade risks. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in Poland for an official visit to a close ally that has galvanized military and political support for Kyiv. The visit comes as Ukraine plans a counter-offensive in the coming weeks or months. Follow the latest on the war. Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin is stepping down as leader of the Social Democratic party and will serve as a regular lawmaker from next week. She sought another term in last Sunday's election but her party came third. On Tuesday, her country formally joined NATO. Cross-border fire in Gaza Israeli police entered Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque before dawn and clashed with worshippers, setting off a furious reaction from Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and crossborder strikes in Gaza. At least nine rockets were fired from Gaza overnight, prompting air strikes from Israel which struck what it said were Hamas weapon production sites. As day broke, the situation appeared to have calmed but the Palestinian Red Crescent said 12 Palestinians had been wounded. Business & Markets New Zealand's central bank unexpectedly raised interest rates by 50 basis points to a more than 14-year peak of 5.25% on Wednesday, saying inflation was still too high and persistent and kept the door open to further tightening. This is how the markets reacted. UBS's Chairman told shareholders that the takeover of Credit Suisse was a significant milestone for Switzerland and for the global financial industry. The bank's annual general meeting comes a day after executives at Credit Suisse faced their own shareholders and Chairman Axel Lehmann apologized for leading the bank to the verge of bankruptcy.  In more news from Switzerland, the country's financial regulator FINMA called for more power to penalize and name and shame banks that break the rules. "Our instruments hit their limits in extreme cases as seen in the case of Credit Suisse," FINMA president Marlene Amstad said. In Pictures Former President Donald Trump speaks, with a flag behind him, during a campaign rally at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, September 24, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner As Donald Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in a historic case, we take a look at 50 defining photos from his presidency. And Finally... Marine biologist Ana Liria feeds a Caretta Caretta turtle at the Taliarte Wildlife Recovery Center, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, March 20, 2023. REUTERS/Borja Suarez Growing numbers of loggerhead sea turtles are nesting and laying eggs on western Mediterranean beaches in what some scientists suggest could be a case of climate change causing habitat expansion of a threatened species. Another factor probably benefiting the world's largest hard-shelled turtle are protection programes in countries like Spain and Cape Verde. Read more here: Is global warming helping loggerhead turtles colonize the Med? Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here.   Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. Reuters Terms & Conditions and Privacy Statement © 2023 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036

Trump in court in historic first for the US

Plus, Ukraine battles on as Finland joins NATO.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters View in Browser Daily Briefing Donald Trump is in New York for his court appearance, heavy fighting continues in Bakhmut, and Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy.    Plus, South American chefs celebrate Amazon cooking with worm chili and tree bark.   By Kate Turton Today's Top News Former US President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower in New York City, April 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon Trump makes history in New York Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, will appear in court today, in a watershed moment ahead of next year's presidential election. Indicted last week, he becomes the first sitting or former president to face criminal charges. Trump hush money case: What is an indictment? An arraignment? A gag order? Trump has widened his lead over his rivals in the 2024 Republican presidential nominating contest according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. Some 48% of self-described Republicans say they want Trump to be their party's nominee, up from 44% in a March 14-20 poll. Fighting continues in Bakhmut, while Finland joins NATO Fighting raged in and around Bakhmut as Ukraine mocked Russian claims to have captured the administrative center of the eastern Ukrainian city, saying Russian forces had raised a victory flag over "some kind of toilet". Follow the latest from the war in Ukraine here. Finland, which shares a 1,300-km border with Russia, is set to join NATO later today, just over a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, partly in response to what Russia said was the alliance's aggressive expansion eastward. Sweden has also applied to join the military alliance. China warned US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy not to "repeat disastrous past mistakes" and meet Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, saying it would not help regional peace and stability, but only unite the Chinese people behind a common enemy. China is for the first time keeping at least one nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine constantly at sea, according to a Pentagon report - adding pressure on the United States and its allies as they try to counter Beijing's growing military.  Business & Markets A replica model of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket sits in a media area at Newquay Airport, Britain, January 8, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after the satellite launch company failed to secure the long-term funding needed to help it recover from a January rocket failure. German insurers Allianz and Munich Re have renewed cover for the damaged Russia-controlled Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, five sources with knowledge of the matter said, indicating that its revival has not been ruled out after an alleged sabotage attack.  Credit Suisse is expected to face shareholder anger at what will be its final annual general meeting after the bank was rescued last month by rival UBS. The hastily arranged takeover, for which Switzerland invoked emergency legislation, bypassed Credit Suisse shareholders and largely wiped out the value of their holdings. More chocolate than ever is eaten globally, but a flagship program launched in 2019 that promised a living wage to growers in top cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana has left many worse off, data and interviews with growers, traders and industry experts show. Ukraine's tech entrepreneurs fight war on a different front A pigeon takes flight in Chasiv Yar, near the frontline, in the eastern region of Donetsk, Ukraine, April 2, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Mour Eugene Nayshtetik and his five co-workers shuttered their company developing medical and biotech startups to join the defense forces days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Within two months, their commanders agreed it would be more useful if they swapped their military gear for computers.   With the government's blessing, Nayshtetik and his team of engineers moved to neighboring Poland where they raised initial funding from a Polish company, Air Res Aviation, to develop a new drone for the Ukrainian military. Reuters spoke to more than a dozen entrepreneurs, as well as Ukrainian and Western officials, who said the shift to military innovation in Ukraine's once-thriving technology sector has bolstered the country's out-manned and out-gunned armed forces. And Finally... Marsia Taha, head chef of Bolivian restaurant Gustu, and Virgilio Martinez, head chef and owner of Peruvian restaurant Central, prepare a dish of their own creation with ingredients from the Amazon, at restaurant Gustu, in La Paz, Bolivia March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Claudia Morales In the high altitudes of Bolivia's La Paz, some of South America's top chefs are paying homage to regional Amazonian culinary ingredients including gusanillo, or worm chili, tree bark that tastes like garlic, and honey from stingless bees.   The new collaboration between Bolivian chef Marsia Taha and Peruvian chef Virgilio Martinez is seeking to raise awareness of the region's incredible - and at times unusual - foods, and the indigenous communities at the forefront of collecting them. Read more here: South American chefs celebrate Amazon cooking with worm chili and tree bark Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. 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