Today's Headlines: A Top Republican Vows a Vote on Health Care, but Uncertainty Reigns

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His aides said it was unclear when a vote would be held on his health care bill.]( [A Top Republican Vows a Vote on Health Care, but Uncertainty Reigns]( By ROBERT PEAR It was not clear how long a delay caused by the absence of Senator John McCain would last, and detractors said they would use it to mobilize more opposition. [Walter Carter, who played for the Raiders and the Buccaneers, has heard from at least a dozen companies pitching services.]( [After N.F.L. Concussion Settlement, Feeding Frenzy of Lawyers and Lenders]( By KEN BELSON The possibility of large payouts to former players, many with cognitive ailments from hits to the head, attracts offers of help with claims, for a cut. [Migrants in a park at Doha Point in Doha, Qatar.]( [Qatar Opens Its Doors to All, to the Dismay of Some]( By DECLAN WALSH The tiny country has become the freewheeling hub of the Middle East. But assertions that it is furthering dissent and terrorism have led to a blockade. 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. [She's His Rock. His Parole Officer Won't Let Him See Her.]( By SHAILA DEWAN As prison rolls drop and the number of parolees increases, a Connecticut man learns that getting out of prison is not the same as being free. [Southern Baptists voting to formally condemn the political movement known as the ]( OPINION | Op-Ed Contributor [Why I'm Leaving the Southern Baptist Convention]( By LAWRENCE WARE I am a minister, and black lives matter to me. I am not confident they matter to the convention. QUOTATION OF THE DAY "That thumb I have left helps me a lot. I thank God for it." [RAZAK IYAL]( a Ghanaian who lost every finger and his left thumb to frostbite when he and a fellow refugee, Seidu Mohammed, walked across the U.S.-Canada border last December. All of Mr. Mohammed's fingers and thumbs had to be amputated. [] Today's Videos [Brittany Greeson for The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.]( [[Video] Video: Whimsical Urban Debris as Art in Detroit]( More than 30 years ago, Tyree Guyton began transforming the blighted street he grew up on. Now, he is dismantling a portion of what is known as the Heidelberg Project to begin something new. [[Video] Video: What Happens After Prison]( The Times, in collaboration with the PBS series "Frontline," followed 10 recently released inmates struggling to succeed on the outside. [] World [Aras Agalarov at the opening of a new concert hall in Moscow that was developed by his company, the Crocus Group.]( [A Russian Developer Helps Out the Kremlin on Occasion. Was He a Conduit to Trump?]( By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Aras Agalarov had developed a reputation as a fixer for the Kremlin's toughest jobs. Did that include trying to pass dirt to Trump's son and aides? [Razak Iyal, 35, center left, and Seidu Mohammed, 24, center right, volunteering at the Canadian Muslim Women's Institute in Winnipeg.]( [After a Harrowing Flight From U.S., Refugees Find Asylum in Canada]( By CATHERINE PORTER Two Ghanaian refugees lost all but a single thumb to frostbite while fleeing the United States. Six months later, they've both been accepted in Canada. [The seven members of the Communist Party's top leadership body, the Politburo Standing Committee, with President Xi Jinping at the center, in Beijing in 2016. The Standing Committee has never included a woman.]( [As China Prepares for New Top Leaders, Women Are Still Shut Out]( By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW A group of lawyers and feminists is urging the Communist Party to promote more women to leadership positions at its congress this fall, but expectations are low. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Cosmo DiNardo being escorted to a police vehicle last week in Doylestown, Pa.]( [Behind Bucks County Killings, a Young Life Skidding Off the Rails]( By TRIP GABRIEL, MATTHEW HAAG and JON HURDLE Before Cosmo DiNardo confessed to killing four young men in Bucks County, Pa., there were signs of a volatile, bullying personality getting worse over time. [An image from a YouTube video of the flooding in Arizona over the weekend. Southeast Arizona is under a flash flood warning until Monday evening.]( [Flash Floods in Arizona Kill at Least 9]( By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH The storm, which hit Saturday - the first day of Arizona's monsoon season - disrupted a family gathering in central Arizona, killing at least six children. [An abandoned furniture store in Lares, P.R. The town in the mountainous heart of the Caribbean island has lost more people to migration than any other municipality since 2010.]( [Exodus From a Historic Puerto Rican Town, With No End in Sight]( By FRANCES ROBLES Even on an island facing economic collapse and population loss, Lares, a picturesque mountain town, stands out. It has lost almost a quarter of its population since 2000. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [President Trump on Saturday at Trump National Golf Club during the United States Women's Open in Bedminster, N.J.]( [Trump Goes on Attack as Russia Revelations Appear to Take Toll]( By MARK LANDLER During a weekend of watching golf in New Jersey, the president used Twitter to defend his son and excoriate Hillary Clinton and the news media. [Senator John McCain of Arizona last week on Capitol Hill. He had surgery on Friday to remove a blood clot.]( [McCain's Surgery May Be More Serious Than Thought, Experts Say]( By DENISE GRADY and ROBERT PEAR The recovery from a procedure on Friday to remove a blood clot could delay Senator John McCain's return to Washington for a vote on health care, medical experts said. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [Bernie Clark, the head of adviser services for Schwab. He preaches the virtues of transparent, low-cost planning strategies.]( [Wealth Advisers Set Up Shop With a Shared Back Office]( By LANDON THOMAS Jr. Online technology lets independent advisers pose a direct threat to the old model of huddling with brokers in paneled offices in big brokerage houses. [Gillette's ]( On Advertising [Welcome to Manhood, Gillette Told the 50-Year-Old Woman]( By SAPNA MAHESHWARI A marketing effort to get free razors in the hands of young men for their 18th birthdays has sometimes reached the wrong target. [Visitors to Epcot near Orlando, Fla. At 35, it is Disney's third-oldest theme park.]( [Disney Vows to Give Epcot a Magical, Long-Overdue Makeover]( By BROOKS BARNES The company has promised major changes for its third-oldest theme park, along with more than $1 billion worth of upgrades elsewhere. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [A Shanghai clothing market that allows customers to pay using the apps Alipay and WeChat.]( [In Urban China, Cash Is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete]( By PAUL MOZUR Across the country's cities, the rapid growth of mobile payments is making cash all but obsolete. [A demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference, in San Jose, Calif., in April.]( [Behind the Velvet Ropes of Facebook's Private Groups]( By KEVIN ROOSE To understand Facebook's new emphasis on private groups, I joined more than 100, ranging from gardeners to flat-earth truthers. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [Roger Federer, who turns 36 next month, is the oldest man to win the Wimbledon singles title in the Open era, which began in 1968.]( [Roger Federer Wins Record-Breaking Eighth Wimbledon Title]( By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Federer defeated Marin Cilic in straight sets, making him the man with the most singles titles at the tournament, and, at nearly 36, the oldest man to win it in the Open era. [Aaron Judge's swing, from start to finish, is a portrait of technical precision after a winter of work fine-tuning his mechanics.]( [How Aaron Judge Built Baseball's Mightiest Swing]( By BILLY WITZ The Yankees home run leader spent time tinkering with his body's mechanics after a rude introduction to the majors last August. The results are hard to deny. [Sung Hyun Park Wins U.S. Women's Open, Edging an Amateur]( By FILIP BONDY Park sank birdie putts on the 15 and 17th holes as she shot a five-under-par round of 67, surpassing her 17-year-old countrywoman Hye-Jin Choi. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Latif Mukasa, center, an artist and refugee from Uganda, giving a tour of the Temporary Museum in Amsterdam, a pop-up exhibition showcasing the experience of migrants. Mr. Mukasa and a visitor sit on a metal bed taken from an asylum-seeker's bedroom, part of ]( [Refugees Confront the Past Through Art, at a Pop-Up Museum]( By NINA SIEGAL Inside a former prison in Amsterdam, now a haven for asylum seekers, migrants tell their stories and stir up their ghosts. [Brendan Wall, center left, and Raquel Duffy in the musical ]( [Review: What the Singing Dead Remember in 'Spoon River']( By BEN BRANTLEY This exuberant musical out of Toronto, adapted from the poems by Edgar Lee Masters, presents an all-souls hootenanny. [Andy Serkis at the Soho Hotel in London in June.]( [Andy Serkis on the Ending of 'War for the Planet of the Apes']( By ROSLYN SULCAS The actor says he wasn't surprised when he read the script because it had been planned for a few years. But the movie was shot out of order, and that was difficult. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( Movies [A scene from ]( ['War for the Planet of the Apes' Arrives to Ho-Hum Ticket Sales]( By BROOKS BARNES The third film in the 'Apes' franchise took in $56.5 million at the North American box office in its first weekend, a sluggish start. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [Gerry Lambert, 73, a lifeguard at Tobay Beach in Oyster Bay, N.Y.]( [Saving Swimmers, Well Into Senior Years]( By COREY KILGANNON That lifeguard saving your life could be in his 70s. Such "lifeguards for life" keep returning to work year after year on the beaches of Long Island. [Wu Long Chen is facing up to life in prison for the 2015 murder of Ying Guan Chen. The two immigrants came from families that had feuded decades before in China.]( [A Brooklyn Murder's Decades-Old Origins in Rural China]( By ALAN FEUER and JEFFREY E. SINGER What began with a neighbors' dust-up over household garbage in Fujian Province ends 20-some years later with a fatal shooting outside a Popeye's in Sunset Park. [Cup & Saucer has been a mainstay of Lower Manhattan for more than 70 years, but its owners say a rent increase of $7,600 per month is forcing them to close it.]( [Another New York Diner Turns Off the Grill, a Victim of Rising Rents]( By REMY TUMIN Cup & Saucer is closing after more than 70 years in Lower Manhattan, the latest sign that the days of the classic city diner may be numbered. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( []Obituaries [Bob Wolff in 2013, before being honored in Washington at a baseball game between the Nationals and the Cincinnati Reds. Mr. Wolff was a longtime broadcaster for the Washington Senators, and also called Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.]( [Bob Wolff, Sports Broadcaster for Nearly 80 Years, Dies at 96]( By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Mr. Wolff called Don Larsen's perfect game, the Giants-Colts 1958 N.F.L. title game, baseball's Game of the Week in the '60s and the Knicks' N.B.A. championship runs. [George A. Romero's ]( [George Romero, Father of the Zombie Movie, Dies at 77]( By MAYA SALAM Mr. Romero created the modern zombie genre with his 1968 cult film, "Night of the Living Dead." [Maryam Mirzakhani was awarded a Fields Medal in 2014. Many Iranian newspapers covered her death in front-page articles, ​some of which showed recent photographs of her without her head covered.]( [Maryam Mirzakhani, Only Woman to Win a Fields Medal, Dies at 40]( By KENNETH CHANG Dr. Mirzakhani, a mathematician at Stanford University, was the only woman and only Iranian ever to win what is often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics. [Hootie Johnson at a news conference in 2003 at Augusta National Golf Club. As the club's chairman, he resisted efforts to admit women.]( [Hootie Johnson, Who Opposed Letting Women Into Augusta National, Dies at 86]( By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN Mr. Johnson's clash with a women's rights activist underscored how social discrimination could affect women's professional ambitions. [Martin Landau won an Academy Award for best supporting actor in 1995 for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in ]( [Martin Landau, Actor Who Won an Oscar for 'Ed Wood,' Dies at 89]( By ANITA GATES Mr. Landau, who gained notoriety in the 1960s TV series "Mission: Impossible," but then struggled to find work, enjoyed a career revival in film decades later. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial [A census bureau worker in Houston in 2010.]( Editorial [Save the Census]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD The accuracy of the 2020 census is endangered by budget and staffing problems, and an administration at war with facts. Editorial [Smoking Marijuana While Black]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Black and Latino New Yorkers still are far more likely to be arrested for lighting up in public. [Indian police officers clashed with students during a protest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ban on the sale of cows for slaughter in May.]( Editorial [India's Turn Toward Intolerance]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Hindu extremists have turned deadly and are gaining political power. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed Op-Ed Contributors [The Benefits of Private Financing for Public Works]( By MARY E. PETERS and SAMARA BAREND Critics derided President Trump's proposal for infrastructure repairs because it relies heavily on private funds. But such partnerships work. [Richard von Kühlmann, Germany's foreign minister, gloated about his country's role in Russia's November 1917 Bolshevik coup.]( Red Century [How German Condoms Funded the Russian Revolution]( By CATHERINE MERRIDALE Lenin's enemies accused him of taking money from Germany. That's not quite right. [President Trump on Saturday in New Jersey.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Trump Savagely Mauls the Language]( By CHARLES M. BLOW Listening to the president speak is a dizzying experience for anyone interested in candor, clarity or concision. [Demonstrators in Ted Cruz's office on Capitol Hill this month.]( Op-Ed Columnist [Republicans Leap Into the Awful Known]( By PAUL KRUGMAN The terrible truth about their health plans isn't debatable. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of its kind. [See this Front Page]( | [Buy this Front Page]( FOLLOW US: [Facebook] [Facebook]( | [Twitter] [@NYTimes]( | [Pinterest] [Pinterest]( | [Instagram] [Instagram]( [NYT]( Access The New York Times from anywhere with our suite of apps: [iPhone®]( | [iPad®]( | [Android]( | [All]( [.] Save 15% at [The NYTimes Store »]( [.] Have questions? 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