It's Friday, August 25th, and a thousand words don't even begin to cover this one.

We start here.

For the first time, a former US President stands not for a portrait, but for a mug shot.

Trump has seen glowering into the camera.

This wasn't just a snapshot of time in Georgia, it was a sign of things to come.

If it wasn't a missile that took the plane down, what was it?

More and more people are suggesting that there could have been a bomb on board.

Two developments in the apparent assassination of Yvgeny Pregozion.

And Japan says it's ready to start exporting water from Fukushima.

In the last 12 years, that process has produced over a million tons of waste water.

Why its neighbors are furious and why scientists are nervous.

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

I'm Brad Milky.

Every criminal defendant is supposed to get treated the same way in theory.

And they do, for the most part, you get charged, you get booked, you make your plea, you face trial.

But in some of these procedures, the court system has some latitude.

Like when the Manhattan DA charged former President Donald Trump, they didn't do a perp walk

or take a mug shot like they've got his picture.

Same thing with the Feds, each time Trump has been indicted this year, there was no mug shot.

They could afford to be a little chill about it.

The Fulton County DA in Georgia clearly feels no need for chill.

Donald Trump has been accused of leading a widespread criminal scheme to undermine the state's

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