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US intelligence suggests Wagner Group leader Yavgeni Pregozion was assassinated.

And former president Donald Trump shakes up his legal team ahead of his expected surrender to

authorities in Georgia tonight. Fulton County, Georgia is the only jurisdiction where

the prosecutors and local enforcement have insisted on mug shots for everybody. So we're seeing

these mug shots roll in for all 19 defendants in the case and that's something that's really

grabbing people's attention. Plus office tenants are renewing their leases but for less space.

It's Thursday, August 24th. I'm Ann Marie for Tolley for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that moved the world

today. We report exclusively that US officials say the plain carrying Yavgeni Pregozion,

the head of the Wagner paramilitary group crashed as the result of an assassination plot,

but that it doesn't appear to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

That preliminary assessment suggests that a bomb or some other form of sabotage caused the

crash, which killed all 10 people aboard, including Pregozion. Meanwhile, some mourners are paying

tribute to the man who staged a short-lived uprising against Moscow in June. Joining me now to

discuss is Wall Street Journal correspondent Thomas Grove. Hi, Thomas, thanks for being here.

Hi, thank you for having me. So the Kremlin says that it is investigating the cause of this crash.

Has there been any other response yet from Russia? Well, it took quite a while with Putin

not addressing the crash to a large crowd whenever he was at a memorial last night for a World War

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