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Republican Party, Ransomware, Sarah Palin: Your Wednesday Briefing

Workers at the 125th Street subway station in Manhattan on Tuesday after a train derailment.Credit...Harrison Hill/The New York Times

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Good morning.

Here’s what you need to know:

• Senate health plan is delayed.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has a reputation as a master tactician. But his assumption that conservative and moderate Republicans would unite to support the Senate’s health care proposal appears to have been a miscalculation, our congressional reporter writes.

Mr. McConnell has delayed a vote on the bill until after a congressional recess, another setback in efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

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Mitch McConnell, left, the Senate majority leader, and John Cornyn, the majority whip, were unable to persuade enough Republicans to back their health care proposal.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump, who didn’t play as active a role in marshaling support for the bill as he did for a similar measure in the House, said, “We’re getting very close.”

We looked at how health care costs would increase for older Americans under the Senate plan, and at how governors from both parties sought to block it.

• Aftermath of a cyberattack.

The assault that began Tuesday was the second global strike in two months in which hackers have tried to shake down computer users, threatening to delete their data unless they paid up.

Here’s what we know and don’t know about the ransomware attack, which experts warned could become a regular danger.

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The cyberattack on Tuesday encrypted computers’ files and demanded a ransom to unlock them.Credit...Rob Engelaar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

• Britain debates deregulation.

The deadly fire at Grenfell Tower has intensified a political argument about whether privatization has gone too far and whether the role of the state has shrunk too much.

On Tuesday, the government ordered an investigation into construction materials used in high rises across the country. We looked at one building in London that was evacuated after the fire and found that it would never have passed safety regulations in New York City.

• New York subway is getting worse.

A train derailed in Manhattan on Tuesday, injuring dozens. Delays have also skyrocketed in the region, and overcrowding is a major culprit.

But political bickering is not the answer, our columnist says.

• Charges in British soccer disaster.

Prosecutors said today that they would file criminal charges against six people in the deaths of 96 soccer fans at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, England, in 1989.

The catastrophe transformed how the sport is viewed in Britain.

• Manafort and Russia.

Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump’s campaign chairman last summer, disclosed on Tuesday that his consulting firm had received more than $17 million over two years from a Ukrainian party with links to the Kremlin.

• Knicks part ways with Phil Jackson.

Jackson won 11 N.B.A. titles but didn’t bring that success to New York as the team’s president.

• “The Daily,” your audio news report.

In today’s show, we discuss why Senator Susan Collins of Maine has been a vocal opponent of the health bill.

Listen on a computer, an iOS device or an Android device.

• The U.S. has struggled to match good jobs to the two-thirds of adults who do not have a four-year college degree.

A new but promising category in the labor market shows how skills can be emphasized over traditional hiring filters like college degrees, work history or references.

• Lyft has positioned itself as the friendly, laid-back alternative to the cutthroat corporate ethos that has guided Uber, a columnist writes.

• CNN, a frequent target of President Trump, defended its journalistic safeguards after a retraction.

Closer to home, Sarah Palin has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Times.

• U.S. stocks were down on Tuesday. Here’s a snapshot of global markets.

Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.

• Ransomware is back. Here’s how to protect yourself.

• Wondering what to buy a recent graduate? Here are some ideas.

• Recipe of the day: Somali-style rice, flavored by rich stock and a spice mixture.

• A canopy of light.

Every year, the MoMA PS1 museum in Queens selects a young architect to create an installation for its courtyard. In today’s 360 video, tour “Lumen,” the photoluminescent work of this year’s winner, Jenny Sabin.

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Take a 360-degree tour through “Lumen,” Jenny Sabin’s photoluminescent installation at MoMA PS1. Ms. Sabin won the museum’s Young Architects Program.CreditCredit...Guglielmo Mattioli for The New York Times. Technology by Samsung.

• Greetings, E.T.

A new initiative to beam messages into space may be our best shot yet at learning whether we’re alone in the universe. There’s just one problem: What if we’re not?

• In memoriam.

Michael Bond, a British author, created Paddington Bear, the polite, good-natured but disaster-prone little hero of children’s books that have sold more than 35 million copies. He was 91.

• It’s cookout season.

Our Food department conducted a blind taste-test of 10 hot dogs, just in time for your Fourth of July barbecue.

It’s part of our guide to summer cooking, from picnics to potlucks to campfires.

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The three judges were natives of New York, where all-beef hot dogs are part of the city’s food DNA.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times

• Best of late-night TV.

Stephen Colbert poked fun at CNN, which retracted a story after failing to follow “standard editorial processes.” “Yes, it’s a fine story — they just forgot to call it ‘breaking news’ and have a countdown clock.”

• Quotation of the day.

“That’s good public policy? What, are you kidding me?”

John Kasich, governor of Ohio, citing the Congressional Budget Office’s projection that the Senate bill would leave 22 million more people uninsured after 10 years.

Today is the 48th anniversary of the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, a watershed moment in L.G.B.T. history.

The protests against a police raid helped galvanize the gay rights movement. President Barack Obama made the bar an official U.S. monument last year, but Stonewall was famous long before.

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Outside the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan in 1969. Its name has come to be synonymous with gay pride.Credit...Larry Morris/The New York Times

The name has come to be synonymous with gay pride. Among those invoking it: The Stonewall Hotel in Sydney, Australia, which is actually a three-floor bar and club.

There’s also Stonewall in Britain, a charity that fights for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals. Stonewall Japan says it has 2,000 members. Stonewall Javeriano, a student group in Colombia, has attracted attention outside the country for its existence at a Roman Catholic university.

In the U.S., Stonewall is the name of a museum and archive in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., because the riots “gave visibility to a community that had previously faced a life in the shadows,” its executive director said.

And to help future generations learn about its history, there’s a new effort to record the oral histories of those who took part in the 1969 uprising, with funding from Google.org.

Karen Zraick contributed reporting.

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