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Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

1. Millions of Americans could soon lose their Medicaid coverage.
As of this month, state officials around the country can begin removing people from Medicaid who no longer qualify — something they had been prohibited from doing under the coronavirus relief package that is set to expire.
The government estimates that about 15 million people will lose coverage in the coming months, including nearly seven million people who are expected to be dropped from the rolls even though they are still eligible. Nearly half of those projected to lose coverage are Black or Hispanic.
The insurance program, which serves low-income Americans, has ballooned to cover roughly 90 million people, or more than one in four Americans — up from about 70 million people at the start of the pandemic.
If you’re worried about losing your coverage, here’s how to prepare: Update your contact information, determine if you qualify and, if needed, contact your state Medicaid office.
2. Donald Trump arrived in Manhattan as he prepared to turn himself in.
The former president is expected to stay overnight at Trump Tower before heading to Lower Manhattan early Tuesday afternoon to surrender at the office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, and then be arraigned in the Manhattan Criminal Courts Building.
His stay in New York City will be short: The Trump campaign scheduled a prime-time news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night, part of a strategy to use the indictment to bolster his standing in his third bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
New York City police have been working with state police, the Secret Service and U.S. Marshals to gather intelligence and prepare the city for any potential violence. Law enforcement agencies are looking to avoid a repeat of Jan. 6, 2021, when officers were caught unprepared.
Mayor Eric Adams warned Trump’s supporters — particularly Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said she was traveling to the city — to behave themselves at protests and rallies. “New York City is always ready,” he said.
3. Russia detained a suspect in the assassination of a pro-war blogger.
The government released a video that it said showed a woman, Daria Trepova, confessing that she had delivered a statuette containing a bomb to the blogger, who was known as Vladlen Tatarsky.
Officials suggested, without evidence, that the bombing at a pro-war gathering at a St. Petersburg cafe was planned by Ukrainian intelligence agencies and “agents” connected to the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. Those accusations signaled that the Kremlin could use the dramatic attack to escalate its crackdown against what remains of antiwar activism in Russia.
In other news from the war, experts say Ukraine is preparing for a counteroffensive in the next month or so, utilizing newly supplied Western weapons.
4. The Biden administration blacklisted a spyware tool. The government kept on using it.
In November 2021, the U.S. government signed a deal to acquire a hacking tool from the notorious Israeli firm NSO that could covertly track mobile phones without a user’s knowledge or consent. Five days earlier, the White House had declared the company a national security threat.
When my colleagues asked the White House about the deal, which was revealed for the first time by The Times, officials said they were unaware of such an arrangement — and revealing how the ongoing battle for control of powerful cyberweapons occurs both among and within governments.
5. NASA announced the crew that will fly to the moon.
The space agency named three American astronauts — Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Reid Wiseman — and one Canadian, Jeremy Hansen, for the upcoming Artemis II mission. They are set to be the first humans to set off for the moon in more than 50 years, on a mission scheduled to begin no earlier than December 2025.
Their mission — a 10-day journey that will swing them around the moon and bring them back to Earth without landing — is seen by NASA as a necessary step in its efforts to send astronauts back to the moon’s surface. The agency soon plans to explore the cold regions near the moon’s south pole, where water ice can be found in deep, dark craters.
Here’s what their spacecraft will look like.
6. A California lake was drained off the map — but now nature would like a word.
Tulare Lake was once the largest body of fresh water west of the Mississippi River, before it was dammed and drained out of existence by farms in California’s Central Valley. But over the past few weeks, the parched expanse has re-emerged as a vast and rising sea.
That has been a slow-motion disaster for farmers there, who grow vast amounts of cotton, tomatoes, safflower and other crops. The larger the lake gets, as California’s record snowpack melts, the greater the risk that entire harvests will be lost to flooding, causing billions of dollars in economic damage
Spring blizzard: A powerful storm is forecast to deliver heavy snow and strong winds today from Utah to Minnesota, creating hazardous whiteout conditions and dumping up to two feet of snow in some regions.
7. When you revise classic novels for today’s readers, where do you stop?
“James Bond” books will be scrubbed of racist and sexist phrases. Adjectives like “fat” and “ugly” have been removed from Roald Dahl’s. They are just two of the revered literary figures whose estates have recently removed offensive content from their well-known works.
The financial and cultural stakes are enormous. The changes are designed to keep authors palatable to new generations — and sell more books. But critics see the posthumous edits as an affront to authors’ creative autonomy, and say it amounts to censorship.
8. Women’s college basketball is on the rise.
Last night’s N.C.A.A. final, which L.S.U. won 102-85, had all the makings of a masterpiece: Iowa's star Caitlin Clark dazzled fans with her sharpshooting; L.S.U.'s star Angel Reese carried her team to a championship; and Kim Mulkey, a colorful and divisive coach, picked up her fourth title.
My colleague Talya Minsberg writes that spectacular moments are nothing new for women’s basketball. The difference now is that more fans and advertisers are taking notice.
Tonight, No. 4 seed UConn and No. 5 San Diego State will meet to determine the men’s college basketball champion. Here’s what to expect.
In other sports news, the owner of the U.F.C. plans to acquire the W.W.E., creating a $21 billion live-combat juggernaut.
9. What to do tonight:
Cook: Mix things up with this berry-jam fried chicken.
Read: “Portrait of a Thief” is one of the six new paperbacks that we recommend.
Watch: “Hot Ones” demystifies celebrities with deep-cut questions and scorching chicken wings.
Apply: If you’re planning to travel soon, don’t wait on your passport.
Let it go: Cher has some advice for figuring out what really matters.
Play: Today’s Spelling Bee, Wordle and Mini Crossword. For more, find all our games here.
10. And finally, is it ever too early to secure your newborn’s digital footprint?
In an age when kids are more online than ever, some parents are wasting no time locking down email addresses, domain names and social media accounts soon after birth — or even earlier.
But establishing a child’s digital footprint at a young age raises privacy concerns and other dilemmas. One parent plans to wipe her children’s Instagram accounts before they inherit them. “You’re not going to want to be 17, and if somebody scrolls back far enough, it’s you in a diaper,” she said.
Have a future-proof night.
Sarah Hughes compiled photos for this briefing.
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