Jennifer Hermoso, the Spanish soccer star who was forcibly kissed by Luis Rubiales, her country’s former top soccer official, testified as his trial opened on Monday that he had “ruined one of the happiest days of my life” — her team’s victory in the 2023 Women’s World Cup.

Ms. Hermoso described her horror at the unexpected kiss from Mr. Rubiales, who is accused of sexual assault and coercion. She also testified about the distress she felt after Mr. Rubiales and other Spanish soccer leaders waged what she called an intense campaign for her to publicly support him after the kiss ignited a social media storm.

“I felt disrespected,” Ms. Hermoso, 34, said in televised testimony at the trial outside Madrid, adding, “I didn’t look for that act, nor did I expect it.”

The kiss set off a national scandal, deepened debates about longstanding sexism in Spanish soccer and became a watershed moment in Spain’s #MeToo movement. Now, less than a year and a half later, Mr. Rubiales is one of four former Spanish soccer officials on trial.

Mr. Rubiales, 47, faces two and a half years in prison if convicted. The other three men, who include Jorge Vilda, the team’s coach at the 2023 World Cup, are accused of coercion. Each could face 18 months.

Ms. Hermoso has long said that the kiss was not consensual, which Mr. Rubiales has disputed.

“I couldn’t react — it was a thousandth of a second,” she testified.

Mr. Rubiales threatened to send people to talk to her family, she testified, and begged her to make a video playing it down. She also spoke of what she saw as a potential punishment for her refusal: A month after the kiss, she was briefly left off the national team’s roster.

“I was refusing to do something that my boss wanted to do,” she said, adding that she had received death threats. “I was afraid to go out in the street in case someone was chasing me.”

But during the medals ceremony after the final, Mr. Rubiales grabbed and kissed Ms. Hermoso — the national team’s record scorer — on the lips. In a video taken after the match, she said, “I didn’t like that!”

The public reaction was swift and furious.

For many, the kiss was a reminder of the repeated sexism scandals that had ripped through Spanish soccer. Some called on Mr. Rubiales to resign. Irene Montero, who was the Spanish equality minister and is now a member of the European Parliament, described the kiss as “sexual violence” in a social media post.

Initially, Mr. Rubiales offered a tepid apology and resisted calls to resign. Spain’s soccer federation released a statement that quoted Ms. Hermoso calling it “a totally spontaneous mutual gesture.”

But at the trial on Monday, Ms. Hermoso said that she had never approved the statement, adding that she knew immediately that the act was not normal. “My boss was kissing me,” she said. “This should not happen.”

After the kiss, dozens of Spanish soccer players said that they would refuse to play for their country until the “current managers” stepped aside, which many saw as a reference to Mr. Rubiales and Mr. Vilda.

Ms. Hermoso filed a criminal complaint of sexual assault against Mr. Rubiales. “At no time did I consent to the kiss that he gave me,” she said.

As the public pressure mounted, Mr. Rubiales’s support thinned. FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, suspended him and later barred him from the sport for three years. Mr. Vilda was fired. Less than a month after the kiss, Mr. Rubiales resigned as president of Spain’s soccer federation and also as a vice president of UEFA, European soccer’s governing body.

Mr. Rubiales was also briefly arrested last year in a wide-ranging investigation into allegations of corruption and money laundering while he led soccer in Spain. Those investigations are continuing, though no charges have been brought against him. He has denied wrongdoing.

Mr. Rubiales might not face prison time, even if he is convicted. In Spain, if someone without a criminal record is sentenced to two years or less, they usually do not go to prison.

Ms. Hermoso, however, described the kiss, and the public reaction, as an enduring trauma. “My life has been on standby,” she said. “And, honestly, I have not been able to live freely.”

Aritz Parra and Nader Ibrahim contributed research.

Salvage crews began lifting the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 5342 from the Potomac River in Washington on Monday morning, the start of an operation that was expected to take three days.

Just after 10 a.m. Eastern, the first piece of wreckage appeared. A crane perched on a barge in the middle of the river hoisted what appeared to be one of the plane’s engines out of the water.

Boats and crew members had started gathering on the river around 8 a.m. Col. Francis Pera of the Army Corps of Engineers said on Sunday that the salvage work would reveal the bodies of some of those who were still missing after the deadly collision between the jet and an Army helicopter last week.

There were 64 people aboard the jet and three in the helicopter, none of whom survived. Remains of 55 victims have been recovered, officials said on Sunday afternoon. Recovery crews are continuing to search the cold and murky water for bodies.

After being lifted from the river, the plane will be placed on a flatbed trailer and taken to a hangar to be studied as part of the investigation into the crash.

The collision on Wednesday night, the worst plane crash in the United States in two decades, occurred in clear skies as the jet approached Ronald Reagan National Airport around 9 p.m.

Federal investigators have said it is too early to speculate about the causes of the crash. But it has raised concerns about staffing, congestion and safety at one of the nation’s busiest airports.

President Trump’s decision to impose hefty tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China included a little-noticed but significant change to how online purchases will be taxed when they enter the United States.

One provision of Mr. Trump’s executive order will increase costs for more than 80 percent of U.S. e-commerce imports. The decision could shift the landscape for online sales from Chinese vendors like Shein and Temu that have swiftly expanded their market share by sending cheap goods into the United States.

The president’s order erased a workaround that many companies have taken advantage of in recent years, particularly since Mr. Trump imposed tariffs on Chinese products in his first term. The provision, known as the de minimis exception, allowed certain products that were sent directly to consumers from online platforms to come into the United States without facing tariffs, a huge tax advantage.

This obscure provision of trade law underpins major business models. Shein, Temu and many sellers on Amazon have used the de minimis exemption to bypass tariffs. The exemption allows packages to be shipped from other countries without paying tariffs, as long as the shipments do not exceed $800 per recipient per day.

But critics say the de minimis measure has also helped fuel an American drug crisis. Importers who use de minimis do not have to provide as much information to U.S. Customs and Border Protection as they do with other packages, for ease of processing. That means drugs and the precursors used to make them could be more easily shipped into the United States without the government catching them.

De minimis stems from a century-old trade law that was originally intended for shipments that would be too trivial to merit the attention of customs. But the use of this provision has exploded in popularity.

A report released last week by the Congressional Research Service found that Chinese exports of low-value packages soared to $66 billion in 2023 from $5.3 billion in 2018. While Mr. Trump’s executive order applies to China, Canada and Mexico, China is by far the biggest source for such packages. The country is responsible for about two-thirds of them, sending more than all other countries combined, according to federal statistics.

The carveout has given an advantage to Chinese companies like Shein and Temu, which ship millions of low-value packages directly to consumers’ doorsteps each year. That ability to bypass tariffs has helped Shein and Temu to offer cheap prices, boosting their popularity. According to the Congressional Research Service, the two companies together hold about 17 percent of the discount e-commerce market in the United States for fast fashion, toys and other consumer goods.

That has angered traditional retailers, which typically bring big bulk shipments to their warehouses that they must pay tariffs for. Retailers like Walmart and Amazon had been facing pressure to shift more toward Temu and Shein’s model of shipping directly to consumers from China, which would have meant they were creating fewer jobs in U.S. distribution centers.

Express delivery companies like FedEx and UPS that fly many of the packages across the Pacific from China have also spoken out in favor of preserving the de minimis exception.

But the Trump administration is focused on targeting de minimis for another reason: its apparent ties to the fentanyl trade. A White House official said in a call with a reporter on Saturday that the provision was causing the United States to lose a tremendous amount of tariff revenue and also impeding the efforts of customs officials to catch fentanyl shipments arriving in packages.

A group of law enforcement, trade and drug prevention groups sent a letter to Mr. Trump last month asking him to end the trade exception, saying it was “flooding the United States with fentanyl, fentanyl precursors, pill presses and other illicit goods from China and other countries.”

The issue has percolated for years, but efforts to limit or end the provision have recently gained momentum. Lawmakers have been considering legislation to the de minimis rule and the Biden administration proposed changes last year that would narrow the exception when it came to China, but they have not yet taken effect.

Congressional proposals to change de minimis would have preserved an exemption for international travelers who bring up to $800 worth of overseas purchases into the United States in their luggage, allowing them to avoid making customs declarations and paying duties at American airports and other points of entry to the United States.

By contrast, Mr. Trump’s executive orders made no mention of preserving the de minimis exemption for people entering the United States. Depending on how customs officials handle it, that could complicate entry to the United States starting on Tuesday for people traveling from Canada, Mexico or China.

Timothy C. Brightbill, a lawyer at Wiley Rein, said the change made by the Trump administration would “have broad impacts on many businesses and industries.” He said a variety of importing industries had “abused” de minimis provisions, and eliminating the loophole would be consistent with the president’s goal of addressing fentanyl shipments.

China’s Ministry of Commerce had no response on Monday to questions about Mr. Trump’s decision. Shein and Temu, also did not respond to a request for comment. A Chinese embassy spokesperson said that China firmly opposed the imposition of tariffs, and that there is no winner in a trade war.

Congress raised the de minimis exemption in 2016 to $800 from $200 in response to complaints from American customs officials that they were already struggling then to examine all the packages coming in. With the increase in the exemption, the number of low-value packages sent to the United States each year has soared.

Since many Americans purchase such packages, the change will also come with an economic cost. Research has found that eliminating the de minimis exception entirely would result in costs of $11 billion to $13 billion for American consumers and disproportionately hurt poorer and minority households.

Amit Khandelwal, an economist at Yale University who is an author of a study on the trade provision, said his research found that lower-income Americans spent a disproportionate amount on de minimis shipments and imports from China compared with wealthier consumers.

”Lower-income individuals will be hurt more,” he said. “Domestic retailers, domestic producers, they obviously would benefit from taxing those imports, but there is a cost.”

Ending the de minimis exception will result in one other interesting change: The official figures for U.S. trade with China, and the U.S. trade deficit, will immediately rise. De minimis shipments do not appear in the typical trade data that is released by the census.

The change will mean that perhaps as much as $100 billion of trade will no longer be missing from official statistics, said Brad W. Setser, an economist at the Council on Foreign Relations. “It brings shadow trade back out of the shadows.”

More than a week after it began, a standoff between Ukraine’s defense minister and the official overseeing weapons procurement remains unresolved and is beginning to disrupt arms contracts, Ukrainian defense companies say.

Ukraine’s arms industry trade group has said that more than 80 defense companies, accounting for about a third of last year’s supplies to the army, “are unable to receive payment for completed orders and sign new contracts.” In one such case, a contract to produce 155-millimeter artillery rounds, a caliber used in many field guns, has been put on hold, the producer of the ammunition said.

The standoff is unlikely to have an immediate effect on arms supplies to Ukrainian troops, the companies said, as current deliveries are drawn from previous contracts. But if it persists, it could jeopardize supplies in the months ahead at a critical time for the Ukrainian Army, which is already struggling to contain Russia’s advance on the battlefield.

At the root of the issue is a tense showdown over the leadership of Ukraine’s defense procurement agency, which had a budget of over $7 billion last year. The defense minister, Rustem Umerov, recently dismissed the agency’s director, Maryna Bezrukova, citing “poor procurement planning” and delayed supplies to the front line, and appointed an acting head.

Ms. Bezrukova has denied the claims of mismanagement and said her dismissal was illegal, because her contract was extended by the agency’s supervisory board. She said on Monday that she would not resign.

The standoff has escalated to the point where both Ms. Bezrukova and the new acting head, Arsen Zhumadilov, have been working from the agency’s headquarters in recent days, including Monday, leaving international partners and defense companies confused about who was responsible for signing contracts.

“The normal day-to-day work of the defense procurement agency is just blocked,” Serhiy Honcharov, head of the National Association of Ukrainian Defense Industries, said in an interview. “Who is actually in charge? No one knows. In this chaos, it’s impossible to sign contracts.”

Serhiy Bulavko, the head of the procurement control department at the defense ministry, told reporters on Friday that there were “no disruptions in weapons supplies” as of now and that “contracting is underway.”

The tumult in Ukraine’s defense sector also risks derailing Kyiv’s efforts to convince its allies, especially President Trump, to maintain support for its fight against Russia. A key part of these efforts was a new mechanism to fund Ukrainian weapon production with Western money through the agency, as an alternative to direct arms supplies.

Last year, half a billion dollars’ worth of weapons were produced through this mechanism. Kyiv aims to double that amount this year.

The agency was established last year in an effort to curb corruption in the procurement process — a move that was applauded by Ukraine’s Western partners. It buys weapons from both foreign and domestic producers.

Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s minister for European integration and justice, complained last week that the standoff was sending the wrong message to Kyiv’s partners. She told the Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne that NATO members had raised questions about the issue in private meetings. “Such aggressive public communication does not help Ukraine, inside and outside,” she said.

Mr. Umerov sought to dismiss Ms. Bezrukova by declining to extend her contract as head of the agency. The move has sparked some calls for his resignation. But he appears unlikely to step down after President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced support for him in an interview with The Associated Press released Sunday.

“The defense minister has the right to do everything necessary to prevent any delays in supplies,” Mr. Zelensky said.

Vladyslav Belbas, the head of Ukrainian Armor Design and Manufacturing Co., a private Ukrainian arms company, said a contract to produce 155-millimeter artillery rounds that was slated to be signed by late January had been put on hold because of the dispute. Ms. Bezrukova confirmed that the contract had not been signed.

“That affects our production capabilities. Because if we don’t know what’s happening, how can I scale the production or how can I least plan for the production?” Mr. Belbas said in a phone interview.