News Wrap: Trump vows he’ll ‘never leave’ presidential race despite charges

John Yang:

Good evening. I'm John Yang. Former President Donald Trump is vowing that nothing is going to drive him out of the presidential race, not even a conviction on any of the felony charges he's facing. Flying between campaign speeches last night, Trump told POLITICO, I'll never leave. Look if I would have left I would have left prior to the original race in 2016.

On Fox News Sunday, former Attorney General Bill Barr said the charges alleging his former boss mishandled classified documents are very serious.

William Barr, Former Attorney General:

I do think we have to wait and see what the defense says and what proves to be true. But I do think if even half of it is true, then he's toast. I mean, it's a pretty — it's a very detailed indictment. And it's very, very damning.

John Yang:

There are no legal bar to Trump's running for office while he's on trial or even as a convicted felon. He'll be arraigned in a federal courtroom in Miami on Tuesday.

In Ukraine amidst heavy fighting and the ongoing counter offensive, Ukrainian forces say they've retaken a village in the Donetsk region in the southeast. They claim that video shows soldiers displaying the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag there.

In the south water levels are receding after last week's big dam collapse and catastrophic floods. But the humanitarian crisis remains. Ukraine claimed Russia shelled a boat carrying evacuees from the flood zone, killing three and injuring 10 others.

Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and questioned today as part of an investigation into the finances of Scotland's ruling party. There are allegations that the party misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars raised to campaign for Scottish independence.

Sturgeon abruptly resigned in February after dominating Scottish politics for nearly a decade. Her husband the party's former chief executive was arrested in April but has not been charged. Sturgeon was released after being questioned. Her spokesperson says she's cooperating with the investigation.

The North Carolina Republican Convention voted behind closed doors to center the state's second term senior U.S. Senator Tom Tillis. Convention delegates said Tillis has strayed from conservative values on LGBTQ plus rights, immigration and gun safety. But tell his spokesperson told The Associated Press that the Senator has no apologies for his positions on those issues.

History was made at yesterday's Belmont Stakes the victory of the racehorse Arcangelo made trader Jena Antonucci, the first woman to win a triple crown race.

Since 1937, 30 women had tried 47 times to break that glass ceiling without success. Also at the Belmont Park Racetrack yesterday, a continuation of the string of horse fatalities and the tracks last race of the day one of the horses suffered fatal injuries. This year at least one horse died in the undercard of each triple crown race.

And Novak Djokovic won the French Open today setting the record for men's Grand Slam titles at 23. He's now just one shorter Margaret Court's all time record.

Still to come on "PBS News Weekend," while two-thirds of North American bird species face extinction. And the story of a trailblazing transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson.