Today's Headlines: Trump Attacks Rosenstein in Latest Rebuke of Justice Department

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[A file photo provided by the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office shows Jeronimo Yanez.]( [Minnesota Officer Acquitted in Killing of Philando Castile]( By MITCH SMITH The officer fatally shot Philando Castile, a black motorist, during a traffic stop last summer. Mr. Castile's girlfriend live-streamed the aftermath. [Protesters on the stairs inside Kensington Town Hall demanded justice for the victims of the fire that gutted Grenfell Tower.]( [May and London Mayor Are Met With Anger as They Respond to Fire]( By CEYLAN YEGINSU and STEPHEN CASTLE Estimates of the death toll at Grenfell Tower reached past 70, as resentment over inequality and a slow response boiled over in public. For more top news, go to [NYTimes.com »]( [Get California Today in Your Inbox]( The news and stories that matter to Californians (and anyone else interested in the state). Delivered Monday through Friday. ADVERTISEMENT Editors' Picks U.S. [[Multimedia Feature] Multimedia Feature: Flint Holds a Glittering Prom, Far From Flint]( For students at Flint Northwestern High School, this year's prom was a chance to set aside anxieties about Flint's three-year-old water crisis, its poverty and its gun violence. [A Labour Party campaign rally in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 7, 2017.]( OPINION | Opinion [Why Are So Many Young Voters Falling for Old Socialists?]( By SARAH LEONARD People like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders have carried the leftist torch in a long-distance relay. Now they're handing it to the millennials. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "She was in his ear, she was in his mind, she was on the phone, and she was telling him to get back in the car even though she knew he was going to die." [KATIE RAYBURN]( an assistant district attorney, arguing that Michelle Carter's words helped lead to a friend's suicide. Ms. Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. [] Today's Videos [[Video] Video: Married, Dating Other People and Happy]( Exploring trust, jealousy and desire with nonmonogamous couples. [Protesters on the stairs inside Kensington Town Hall demanded justice for the victims of the fire that gutted Grenfell Tower.]( [[Video] Video: After London Fire, Angry Protesters Demand 'Justice']( Demonstrators heckled Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain on Friday and stormed the local council that owns Grenfell Tower, which was incinerated in a deadly fire on Wednesday. [Defending the Republicans' approach, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, said this week that there had been ]( [[Video] Video: Why G.O.P. Senators Are Creating a Health Plan in Secret]( Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is working with a small group of Republicans to draft a new health care bill behind closed doors. Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor for The Times, explains the reasons for - and reactions to - the secrecy. [] World [Damage on the starboard side of the American destroyer Fitzgerald on Saturday.]( [U.S. Destroyer Fitzgerald Is Damaged in Collision Off Japan]( By MOTOKO RICH The destroyer collided with a container ship early Saturday, and seven Navy sailors were reported missing. Japanese television showed heavy damage to the warship. [Police officers on Friday outside a kindergarten on the outskirts of Xuzhou, a city in Jiangsu Province. An explosion outside the school on Thursday was caused by a 22-year-old man who died in the blast, the Chinese news media said.]( [At Kindergarten Blast in China, 'The World Didn't Seem Real']( By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ and IRIS ZHAO A typical day of parents and grandparents waiting to pick up their children turned into a scene of carnage. The suspect is a 22-year-old who died in the bombing. [President Trump, in Miami on Friday, approved new strictures on Americans' ability to travel to and do business with Cuba.]( [Trump Reverses Pieces of Obama-Era Engagement With Cuba]( By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS The president said he was revoking elements of a "terrible and misguided deal" by reinstating travel restrictions, a symbolic step away from seeking better relations. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Guilty Verdict for Young Woman Who Urged Friend to Kill Himself]( By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JESS BIDGOOD Michelle Carter, who pressed Conrad Roy III to kill himself, was convicted in a rare finding that a person's words can directly cause someone else's suicide. [Attendees passed through metal detectors for Evergreen State College's commencement on Friday, which was held at a baseball stadium 30 miles from campus.]( [A Campus Argument Goes Viral. Now the College Is Under Siege.]( By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS After a professor objected to a racial-awareness event, the protests against him were widely shared online, prompting threats against him and the college. [There were no explicit threats written on the list that was found on the body of James T. Hodgkinson, who was killed on Wednesday morning in a shootout with the police in Alexandria, Va.]( [Alexandria Gunman Carried List With Names of 3 Republican Lawmakers]( By ADAM GOLDMAN The names, which the authorities believe may have been potential targets, were found on the body of the gunman who opened fire on a baseball field being used by Republican congressmen. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, has denounced discrimination, but has signaled that her office is ]( [Education Dept. Says It Will Scale Back Civil Rights Investigations]( By ERICA L. GREEN The department will not consider civil rights investigations mandatory, loosening rules that spurred broad looks at issues from sexual assault to disciplinary actions. [Rick Gates said that criticism of him and Paul Manafort was based on flawed news media reports and documents whose authenticity the two men question.]( [How the Russia Investigation Entangled a Manafort Protégé]( By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and BARRY MEIER Rick Gates's rapid ascent into President Trump's orbit as Paul Manafort's partner, and his sudden ejection from it, underscore how the Russia inquiries have shaken the administration. [Edward J. Snowden spoke by video to a conference in Estoril, Portugal, in May. The N.S.A. failed to consistently lock racks of servers storing highly classified data and to secure data center machine rooms after the leaks by Mr. Snowden, according to an inspector general report.]( [Post-Snowden Efforts to Secure N.S.A. Data Fell Short, Report Says]( By CHARLIE SAVAGE The agency failed to limit the number of people with access to top-secret data as it tried to prevent another security breach, the Pentagon watchdog found. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [Customers at a Whole Foods Market in Midtown Manhattan.]( [Amazon to Buy Whole Foods for $13.4 Billion]( By NICK WINGFIELD and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED The deal for a physical grocery retailer reflects Amazon's ambition to become an even more frequent shopping habit to customers. [Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods sent shares of Walmart, Target, Kroger and Costco tumbling on Friday.]( [Amazon Deal for Whole Foods Starts a Supermarket War]( By RACHEL ABRAMS and JULIE CRESWELL The grocery-store industry now faces, in addition to overseas competitors, a deep-pocketed rival with a track record of moving customers online. [The NBC anchors Megyn Kelly and Lester Holt attended NBCUniversal's upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall in May.]( [Megyn Kelly, and Network That Bet on Her, Land on the Hot Seat]( By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and JOHN KOBLIN Ms. Kelly's coming interview with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has generated a fierce backlash as she is trying to introduce herself to her NBC audience. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [The actress Glenn Close with Zack Van Amburg, center, and Jamie Erlicht, the leaders of Sony Pictures Television, in 2012.]( [Apple, Moving In on Prestige TV, Poaches Two Sony Executives]( By BROOKS BARNES The company's hiring of two respected leaders, who cultivated shows like "Breaking Bad" at Sony, signaled to Hollywood that Apple is serious about original programming. [Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's antitrust chief, at a news conference in Brussels in April 2016.]( [Google Said to Be Facing Record E.U. Fine by End of August]( By MARK SCOTT Regulators are set to impose a penalty of more than $1 billion and force the company to alter how it operates, according to people familiar with the case. Tech Tip [Claiming Your Own Little Corner of the Web]( By J. D. BIERSDORFER You don't need a lot of technical expertise to make a personal site or a blog to share your thoughts with the world. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s fight with Manny Pacquiao in 2015 brought in nearly $600 million, making it the most lucrative fight ever, according to ESPN.]( [Mayweather-McGregor: 2 Fighters, Hundreds of Millions of Dollars]( By KEVIN DRAPER "I think this fight could generate somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 million," a former HBO executive said. [Australia's Michael Booth, left, in the Thonon Sup Race during the fifth week of the stand-up paddle Euro Tour 2017 roadshow this month, off Lausanne, Switzerland.]( [Let's Settle This in Court: What, Exactly, Is Stand-Up Paddleboarding?]( By VICTOR MATHER The international surfing and canoeing associations both want to control stand-up paddle and are headed to mediation with Court of Arbitration for Sport. [From left, Eli Harold, Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid of the 49ers knelt during the national anthem at an N.F.L. game in September.]( On Pro Football [The Problem With Kaepernick's Political Views: He Plays Football]( By KEN BELSON If Colin Kaepernick were a professional basketball player instead of a football player, he might already have a job. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Kathryn Hahn in a scene from the Amazon series ]( Critic's Notebook [Groundbreaking TV About Female Desire, Thanks to Playwrights]( By ALEXIS SOLOSKI Annie Baker and Heidi Schreck wrote an episode of Amazon's "I Love Dick" that our critic calls the best 20 minutes of television she has seen in years. [Kevin Spacey in the one-man show ]( [Review: Kevin Spacey as Clarence Darrow, Stadium Size]( By JESSE GREEN At Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, a one-man show about the crusading liberal lawyer defies all of Mr. Spacey's efforts to bring it to engaging life. [The director Jim McKay, who is unveiling his first feature film in 12 years, ]( [Brooklyn, as Hollywood Never Sees It]( By MIKE HALE Jim McKay's new film, about bicycle delivery men and soccer in Carroll Gardens and Sunset Park, is having its premiere at BAMcinemaFest. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [A man riding a Citi Bike on West 26th Street, where Dan Hanegby, 36, was killed on Monday doing the same thing. The street has no bicycle lane.]( [Family Recalls Life of Avid Cyclist, as Questions Are Raised About His Death]( By HANNAH ALANI A 36-year-old banker, who moved to New York for the woman he loved, was struck and killed by a charter bus while riding a Citi Bike. [People gathered near a portrait of James Joyce at Bloom's Tavern in Midtown Manhattan to celebrate Bloomsday.]( [Celebrating Joyce at Bloom's Tavern, of Course]( By COREY KILGANNON Devotees of Joyce and the novel "Ulysses" met in a Manhattan tavern for Bloomsday breakfast, a fictional meal in the book that occurred on June 16, 1904. [Cultured Legionella bacteria growing under a microscope at a Pittsburgh laboratory.]( [Legionnaires' Outbreak on Upper East Side Kills One and Sickens Six]( By SARAH MASLIN NIR The city's health department is investigating the cause of the outbreak in Lenox Hill. The disease infects 200 to 400 New Yorkers a year, the city says. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( []Obituaries [Christian Democratic Union chairman Helmut Kohl is congratulated as the new chancellor of Germany.]( [Helmut Kohl, Chancellor Who Reunited Germany, Dies at 87]( By CRAIG R. WHITNEY and ALAN COWELL Mr. Kohl held the post for 16 years, from 1982 to 1998, longer than any German leader since Bismarck. [Pigeonholed as a leftist in the 1970s, the political scientist Robert Leiken later drew the scorn of fellow liberals for rebuking the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.]( [Robert S. Leiken, Political Scientist Who Defied Labels, Dies at 78]( By SAM ROBERTS The title of his unfinished memoir reflected the frustration of his ideological soul mates, first liberals and later conservatives: "How I Lost All My Friends." [John Avildsen won an Academy Award in 1977 for his direction of ]( [John Avildsen, Director of 'Rocky' and 'The Karate Kid,' Dies at 81]( By MAYA SALAM The Oscar-winning filmmaker, over a career that spanned nearly five decades, told stories of down-and-out characters finding triumph. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial Editorial [Playing Tricks With Dodd-Frank]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The Treasury's proposed rule changes are right off a banker's tasting menu. [President Trump speaking about Cuba in Miami on Friday.]( Editorial [A Cynical Reversal on Cuba]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD About the best that can be said about President Trump's misguided decision is that it's not as bad as it might have been. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [President Trump meeting with his cabinet on Monday.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Name Your Pick for TrumpWorld's Worst Cabinet Member]( By GAIL COLLINS It's a tough competition. [Immigrants cheering at the start of a naturalization ceremony in Atlanta last fall.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Only Mass Deportation Can Save America]( By BRET STEPHENS So-called real Americans are screwing up America. Op-Ed Contributor [Beyond Blades of Grass]( By PAUL BOGARD Why do we consider a neatly trimmed lawn the pinnacle of what the ground should be? For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On June 17, 1928, Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. She flew from Newfoundland to Wales in about 21 hours. 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