News Wrap: Federal judge considers releasing redacted affidavit from Mar-a-Lago search

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• Judy Woodruff:

  There is new trouble tonight for former President Trump's business empire.

  Allen Weisselberg, longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, has pleaded guilty to 15 charges involving tax fraud. He said nothing after today's hearing in New York, but his plea deal requires him to testify at the Trump Organization's own trial in October. Weisselberg will be sentenced later.

  A federal magistrate in Florida said that he is inclined to release some of the affidavit behind the search of the Trump estate at Mar-a-Lago. Today, he gave the U.S. Justice Department a week to decide which sections it wants to keep secret. The search turned up classified White House material.

  We will return to the Trump investigations after the summary.

  In Ukraine, the U.N. called today for demilitarizing the area around Europe's largest nuclear plant. Kyiv and Moscow blame each other for shelling at the Zaporizhzhia plant. It's in an area now controlled by Russia.

  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met today with President Zelenskyy in Western Ukraine, but Russia has already refused to withdraw from the nuclear site.

• Ivan Nechaev, Spokesman, Russian Foreign Ministry (through translator):

  Kyiv repeatedly demonstrated its ability to stage provocations and its lack of ability to control nationalist formations. This is the same reason why the proposals to demilitarize the zone around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant are unacceptable.

• Judy Woodruff:

  The Russians did not say if they would allow international inspectors into the plant. Today's talks in Ukraine also included the president of Turkey and focused on grain shipments stalled due to the war.

  We will return to that story later in the program.

  The death toll in Afghanistan has reached at least 21 after a mosque in Kabul was bombed last night. Taliban security forces cordoned off the blue-domed Mosque today. The explosion killed a prominent cleric, among others, and wounded dozens more. There has been no claim of responsibility.

  Back in this country, the man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie was denied bail in Western New York state today. Hadi Matar appeared in court at grand jury indicted him. He pleaded not guilty to attacking the author at a literary event this month. Rushdie remains hospitalized in Pennsylvania.

  Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has agreed to an 11-game suspension and a $5 million fine for alleged sexual misconduct. The NFL announced it today. Two dozen women had accused Watson of sexual assault and harassment when he played for the Houston Texans. Two grand juries declined to indict him. And he insisted today he's innocent.

• Deshaun Watson, Cleveland Browns:

  Just because settlement and things like that happen doesn't mean that a person is guilty for anything. I feel like the person has the opportunity to stand on his innocence and prove that. And we proved that on the legal side. And we're just going to continue to push forward as an individual and as a person.

• Judy Woodruff:

  Watson recently settled 23 of 24 lawsuits involving the allegations against him.

  U.S. health officials announced today that they are setting aside another 50,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine for gay pride events. There have been more than 13,000 cases reported in the U.S. so far, nearly all of them involving sex between men. The extra vaccine will go to at least a dozen events scheduled in the next two months.

  On Wall Street, stocks managed small gains in choppy trading today. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 18 points to close just below 34,000. The Nasdaq rose 27 points. The S&P 500 added nine.

  And former first lady Rosalynn Carter celebrated her 95th birthday today. She has now lived longer than any other first lady, except Bess Truman, who lived to be 97. Mrs. Carter's husband, Jimmy, is the oldest living former president. He will turn 98 on October.

  Happy birthday, Mrs. Carter.