  The BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric e+e- collider has first
started collecting data in May 1999. A study of time-dependent CP-violating
asymmetries in B0 --> J/psi K0S and B0 --> psi(2S) K0S decays has been
performed on a data sample of 9.0fb-1 taken at the Y(4S) resonance and 0.8fb-1
off-resonance, collected through July 2000. The preliminary result sin2beta =
0.12+/-0.37 (stat) +/- 0.09 (syst) is presented here, together with preliminary
results on neutral and charged B meson lifetimes and B0B0bar mixing.
