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Constituents took advantage of Fourth of July celebrations to lobby Republican senators on healthcare, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The holiday was one of the few opportunities constituents had to publicly address lawmakers about healthcare, a topic that has dominated the legislative agenda in recent weeks. Sen.

A police officer was shot and critically injured early Wednesday while sitting in a police vehicle in the Bronx, in what the police commissioner called an “unprovoked attack.” The officer, a 12-year police veteran assigned to the anti-crime unit of the 46th precinct, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was listed in extremely critical condition. The officer was sitting in a marked Police Department command vehicle near the corner of East 183rd Street and Morris Avenue, in the Fordham Heights neighborhood, around 12:30 a.m.

Brian Rybak’s first day as an Uber driver in the Hamptons did not start off well. Moments after midnight on Friday, about 24 hours after it became legal in New York State for ride-hailing services to operate outside New York City, Mr. Rybak checked his cellphone, clicked to accept a ride request and drove his shiny black Lincoln MKZ to the given address in East Hampton, Long Island. After several turns down dark streets, Mr. Rybak realized he had been called to a cemetery.

Edward Albee died last fall. But the renowned playwright is making one last request from the great beyond. Albee wants two of his friends to destroy any incomplete manuscripts he left behind. The instruction — included in a will Albee filed on Long Island, where he lived and died — is unusual but not unprecedented.

MIAMI — Few things make Carlos A. Gimenez more irritated than Marlins Park. A decade ago, Mr. Gimenez, then a county commissioner, was one of the few local politicians to oppose spending hundreds of millions of public dollars to help the Miami Marlins pay for a new stadium they said they could not afford to build on their own. Mr. Gimenez, who is now the mayor of Miami-Dade County, was outvoted.

LONDON — The long journey for Connie Yates and Chris Gard, whose infant son, Charlie, cannot breathe or move on his own, appeared to have come to an end last week. The courts had ruled that the baby’s rare genetic condition was incurable and that the only humane option was to take him off life support.

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Things change when a spaceship comes to town. Tourists stroll by, whipping out their iPhones to get a photo. New businesses move in. And real estate prices go up even more. Apple’s new home in Cupertino — the centerpiece being a $5 billion, four-story, 2.8 million-square-foot ring that can be seen from space and that locals call the spaceship — is still getting some final touches, and employees have just started to trickle in.

WIMBLEDON, England — Mischa Zverev was confused. Something was wrong with his opponent, Bernard Tomic.

WIMBLEDON, England — Wimbledon has always been a haven for fanatical supporters, from the hordes of young women who chased Bjorn Borg around the grounds in the 1970s to the Australians who dress in yellow every year to support their countrymen and women. Faces will be painted with the Scottish and British flags for Andy Murray over the next two weeks. But fandom can take many forms.

When that ’80s signature, rainbow-colored hair made a comeback, it was wilder than ever. Layers of crazy pink transitioning to purple, blue and green now pepper Instagram feeds and pop up in everyday life — and not just at the Mermaid Parade. But what about rainbow hair lite?