Today's Headlines: Trump Tries to Regroup as the West Wing Battles Itself

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[A photo from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency shows the intercontinental ballistic missile launched from an undisclosed site in the North.]( [After North Korea Test, South Korea Pushes to Build Up Its Own Missiles]( By CHOE SANG-HUN and DAVID E. SANGER North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile has spurred the South to seek arms talks with the United States. [A man in Miami in 2015 directed passers-by to an insurance company where they could sign up for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.]( [Consensus Is Health Law Can Be Fixed. Now the Hard Part.]( By REED ABELSON, ABBY GOODNOUGH and KATIE THOMAS Stabilizing the market, lowering drug prices and expanding access to coverage would go a long way to easing millions of Americans' concerns. 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 [A team from Vihti, Finland, competing in the country's 20th annual Swamp Soccer World Championships this month in Hyrynsalmi. Their mascot, a badger doll named Jetta, is the one in the cage.]( SPORTS [Finland Has a Sports Screw Loose]( By ANDREW KEH Swamp soccer. Wife carrying. Phone throwing. The country used to be formidable in traditional sports, but has pivoted hard to the bizarre side of competition. [John Kelly at a Pentagon briefing in 2016.]( OPINION | Opinion [The Generals Can't Save Us From Trump]( By JONATHAN STEVENSON Kelly, Mattis and McMaster were supposed to rein him in and shape his foreign policy. What happened? QUOTATION OF THE DAY "We know taking another man's land is like taking his wife." [PARASHUNO LEKADERO]( a herder in Kenya who had recently invaded land where his animals were grazing. [] Today's Videos [An antigovernment demonstration in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, in May. Three months of continuous protests have left more than 100 dead, many in clashes between security forces and protesters.]( [[Video] Video: Venezuela on the Brink]( The country has been rocked by clashes between the opposition and the government of President Nicolás Maduro, who, despite deadly protests, promises to hold national elections on Sunday. [Brian Ramos. Technology by Samsung.]( [[Video] Video: Life on Mars: Mirages of Earth]( Six people are living in isolation for eight months on a volcano in Hawaii as part of a NASA-funded study to simulate human exploration of Mars. In the fifth episode of this 360-video series, experience the virtual environments the crew uses to relieve stress. [] World [A man from the Pokot ethnic group illegally grazing cattle on Ol Maisor Ranch in Laikipia, Kenya. Hundreds of Pokot and Samburu people have invaded the ranch, cutting or breaking perimeter fences to graze thousands of cattle, goats and sheep.]( [Loss of Fertile Land Fuels 'Looming Crisis' Across Africa]( By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Climate change, soil degradation and rising wealth are shrinking the amount of usable land in Africa. But the number of people who need it is rising fast. [The church and cemetery in Baruta, a village in the Pskov region of northwestern Russia. ]( [Russia's Villages, and Their Way of Life, Are 'Melting Away']( By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Contrary to President Vladimir V. Putin's claims of population growth, rural areas - long considered the wellspring of Russian culture and identity - are dying. [In Caracas this month, Venezuelans voted in an exercise that was organized to show opposition to a new national constituent assembly, which will be elected on Sunday.]( [As Venezuela Prepares to Vote, Some Fear an End to Democracy]( By NICHOLAS CASEY President Nicolás Maduro's plan to create a new assembly is expected to give leftists virtually unlimited authority. For more world news, go to [NYTimes.com/World »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] U.S. [Ryan Brown working in the control room of Green Mountain Power in Colchester, Vt. Green Mountain can draw on stored power from batteries installed through its programs, reducing the electricity it must pull from the regional transmission system.]( [Utility Helps Wean Vermonters From the Electric Grid]( By DIANE CARDWELL Green Mountain Power is trying to turn homes, neighborhoods and towns into virtual power plants, driven by economics as well as environmental goals. [The University of California, Irvine, this month rescinded acceptance letters for 499 incoming freshmen.]( [U.C. Irvine Rescinds Acceptances for Hundreds of Applicants]( By JACEY FORTIN With too many applicants vying to enter the Class of 2021, the university had to rescind acceptance letters for 499 students. Dozens have appealed. [Claire Smith spoke after receiving the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for writing at a Baseball Hall of Fame presentation on Saturday.]( [Claire Smith, a Pioneer in Sports Writing, Is Honored at Cooperstown]( By FILIP BONDY Smith worked as a newspaper reporter and columnist for more than three decades, including stints at The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and ESPN. For more U.S. news, go to [NYTimes.com/US »]( ADVERTISEMENT [] Politics [Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said Democrats ]( [How Schumer Held Democrats Together Through a Health Care Maelstrom]( By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has nurtured the unity of a disparate party coalition, even as he has promised to try to work with Republicans. [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Washington last week.]( [Trump Tells G.O.P. Senators Not to Be 'Total Quitters' on Health Bill]( By MAGGIE HABERMAN The president threatened to cut lawmakers' health insurance and criticized the filibuster, even though the bill failed without the use of the tactic. [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]( [Police Criticize Trump for Urging Officers Not to Be 'Too Nice' With Suspects]( By BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL Law enforcement officials condemned the president's remarks as inappropriate and potentially dangerous. Police supporters said it was clearly intended as a joke. For more political news, go to [NYTimes.com/Politics »]( [] Business [The Tesla Model 3 sedan.]( [In Pivotal Moment, Tesla Unveils Its First Mass-Market Sedan]( By BILL VLASIC Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive, delivered 30 cars to employees chosen to be the first owners. The electric-car maker faces a challenge in meeting the sizable demand. [Patrons at a bar in Barcelona, a city where young professionals have arrived from around the world.]( [Spain's Long Economic Nightmare Is Finally Over]( By PETER S. GOODMAN After nearly a decade of economic crisis, Spain is finally growing again, underscoring hopes that the eurozone has reached a healthier place. Strategies [The Mind-Boggling Ascent of Amazon and Jeff Bezos]( By JEFF SOMMER The company already has one of the most spectacular records in stock market history, enriching investors and making its founder a wealthy man. For more business news, go to [NYTimes.com/Business »]( [] Technology [Software made by foreign companies to help users skirt China's internet filters has vanished from Apple's app store on the mainland.]( [Apple Removes Apps From China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship]( By PAUL MOZUR The world's most valuable company appears to have pulled down the apps amid China's deepening crackdown on tools that evade internet controls. [Farhad's and Mike's Week in Tech: The End of the iPod, Plus Uber News]( By FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC In this week's tech newsletter, Farhad and Mike discuss Uber's C.E.O. search and their love of C-Span. For more technology news, go to [NYTimes.com/Technology »]( [] Sports [A portrait of Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo made of moss was part of an exhibition at the Brickell City Center in Miami last week in advance of Saturday's game between Real Madrid and Barcelona.]( [Soccer's El Clásico Comes to Miami. So Does the Circus.]( By STEVE BRENNER The buildup for Saturday's matchup between Real Madrid and Barcelona, the rivalry's first on American soil, was huge. So were the ticket prices. [The gravestone of the Yankees great Lou Gehrig at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y.]( [When Cooperstown Almost Changed From Museum to Mausoleum]( By RICHARD SANDOMIR A scuttled plan to move the remains of Lou Gehrig to the Baseball Hall of Fame could have turned it into the final resting place of stars who went home. [The former commissioner Bud Selig, left, and John Schuerholz, who worked for the Royals and Braves, in December after their election to the Hall of Fame.]( Extra Bases [2 From Baseball's Front Offices, Not Its Fields, Get a Cooperstown Moment]( By TYLER KEPNER Former Commissioner Bud Selig and a longtime executive, John Schuerholz, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame. And other executives are poised to follow. For more sports news, go to [NYTimes.com/Sports »]( [] Arts [Michael Moore at the Belasco Theater, where he will perform his one-man show, ]( [Michael Moore Says He Wants to Change Minds. So Why Is He on Broadway?]( By DAVE ITZKOFF His one-man show, "The Terms of My Surrender," is opening at the Belasco Theater. But theater audiences in New York may already be part of his choir. [Charlize Theron last month in Los Angeles.]( [Charlize Theron's Sick Work Ethic]( By CARA BUCKLEY At a time when audiences crave female empowerment, she is packing a punch, first in "Mad Max: Fury Road" and now in "Atomic Blonde." [Members of Rosas and Ictus in ]( [Concert Choreography: When Musicians Get Up and Move]( By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM A slew of new performances - new music and classics - are asking players to use their bodies as much as their sight-reading skills. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] Metropolitan Lions of New York [The Rise and Fall of Liz Smith, Celebrity Accomplice]( By JOHN LELAND She was the most powerful gossip columnist in the 1980s. A tabloid celebrity herself, she could turn anyone into a star overnight. Until she couldn't. [Young professionals have started using ferries to commute and socialize.]( [On the East River Ferry, a Party Before the Party]( By ALYSON KRUEGER The city's popular new ferry service keeps getting better, as riders discover the delights of a beer or a glass of rosé on the slow boat to a night out. [A class on pizza-making in the kitchen of the Brownsville Community Culinary Center. The program in Brooklyn plans to help prepare participants for careers in the food and restaurant industry.]( [Brooklyn's Anti-Gentrification Restaurant]( By GINIA BELLAFANTE The world-renowned chef Claus Meyer is behind a new culinary center in Brownsville meant to serve the poor - and Williamsburg is not invited. For more New York news, go to [NYTimes.com/NewYork »]( [] Fashion & Style [The author Jenny Allen on Martha's Vineyard, where she moved after separating from the cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer.]( At Home With [For Jenny Allen, She and Her House 'Were Sort of in This Together']( By PENELOPE GREEN A Martha's Vineyard retreat helped the writer Jenny Allen heal from the breakup of her marriage to the cartoonist and playwright Jules Feiffer. [Alisyn Camerota in her CNN office.]( [Alisyn Camerota, Formerly of Fox News, Has a Story to Tell]( By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM The hair. The leg bronzer. Now at CNN, a journalist who accused Roger Ailes of harassment sets her first novel at a right-leaning cable network. Modern Love [During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered]( By ANDREW RANNELLS On one of the most consequential evenings of his life, a young man still finding himself wishes he had picked up the phone. For more fashion news, go to [NYTimes.com/Fashion »]( [] Travel [Owachomo is probably the oldest bridge at Bears Ears National Monument.]( National Monuments [At Bears Ears in Utah, Heated Politics and Precious Ruins]( By STEPHEN NASH The new national monument, with remarkable archaeological sites, is under review by the Trump administration, which could reduce its size. 36 Hours [36 Hours in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan]( By STEVE REDDICLIFFE Get a weekend's taste of this alluring area on Lake Superior, replete with waterfalls, trumpeter swans and hearty regional dishes. [The Albert I Promenade overlooks Ostend's broad beaches.]( Footsteps [The Belgian Port Town That Inspired James Ensor's Provocative Art]( By ALEXANDER LOBRANO A trip to Ostend on the North Sea, a place both bawdy and fancy, illuminates the creativity of the painter James Ensor, who spent his life here. For more travel news, go to [NYTimes.com/Travel »]( [] Magazine [Liang Xiaojun, a Chinese human rights lawyer, in front of a detention center where many of his colleagues have been imprisoned.]( Feature ['Flee at Once': China's Besieged Human Rights Lawyers]( By ALEX W. PALMER As the global spotlight on the nation's domestic policies has dimmed, lawyers for dissidents increasingly face a terrible choice: acquiescence or imprisonment. Feature [How to Make a Movie Out of Anything - Even a Mindless Phone Game]( By ALEX FRENCH Hollywood is aggressively adapting material that doesn't have a narrative or even any characters. But not all intellectual property is created equal. [The Calacata Borghini quarry, one of the oldest in Carrara, in the heart of the Apuan Alps.]( Feature [The Majestic Marble Quarries of Northern Italy]( By LUCA LOCATELLI and SAM ANDERSON Fueled by insatiable demand in the gulf states, the Italian marble trade is booming. A look at how the stone is wrenched from the earth. For more from the Sunday magazine, go to [NYTimes.com/Magazine »]( []Obituaries [Mr. Collings was self-taught. He learned on the job largely by fixing other people's instruments before venturing to build acoustic guitars on his own in his two-bedroom apartment, making machine parts for them as well.]( [Bill Collings, Maker of Sought-After Guitars, Dies at 68]( By SAM ROBERTS Mr. Collings's company made guitars for Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Joni Mitchell, Eddie Van Halen, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Bill Frisell and Emmylou Harris. For more obituaries, go to [NYTimes.com/Obituaries »]( [] Editorial [A military aide, left, carried the nuclear ]( Editorial [A Threat to Nuclear Arms Control]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Republicans are pushing wasteful and dangerous plans to expand the numbers and capabilities of our arsenal. [John McCain.]( Editorial [Mr. McCain and The Mooch]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Let's hope that Senator McCain's words, rather than Mr. Scaramucci's expletives, echo in Americans' ears in the days to come. [Brains of deceased football players, examined by Dr. Ann McKee.]( Editorial [The Scars From 'Bell-Ringing' Football Tackles]( By THE EDITORIAL BOARD A study has found overwhelming evidence that a brain disease is linked to football playing. So how will the N.F.L. take care of its players? For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] Op-Ed [A detail from The Last Judgement, 1506-1508, by Hieronymus Bosch.]( Op-Ed Columnist [President Trump's Really Weak Week]( By MAUREEN DOWD What Trump learned from George Steinbrenner: Bullies rule, so pick on your top guys in public until they're in tatters, and then fire them. [Jessica Mendoza when she was on the United States Olympic softball team in 2008. She is now ESPN's first female baseball analyst.]( Opinion [Who Gets to Call the Game?]( By DOUG GLANVILLE You don't need to be a former player - or a particular gender - to analyze baseball. Opinion [Want Teenage Boys to Read? Easy. Give Them Books About Sex.]( By DANIEL HANDLER It's stupid to pretend that they're not interested in the thing we all know they're interested in. For more opinion, go to [NYTimes.com/Opinion »]( [] ON THIS DAY On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Only 316 out of 1,196 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters. [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? [Help Section »]( [.] Visit our mobile website at [m.nyt.com »]( About This Email This is an automated email. Please do not reply directly to this email. You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's Today's Headlines newsletter. 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