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Scarlett Johansson faced a storm of criticism after it was reported that she would play a transgender man in a moviehttps://nyti.ms/2KBwiSc 

Claude Lanzmann's obsession with the Nazi genocide brought forth "Shoah," a groundbreaking film that relived the annihilation of Jews through the memories of witnesseshttps://nyti.ms/2zf22XS 

The British government scrambled to explain a second nerve-agent poisoning of two people in southwestern Englandhttps://nyti.ms/2MSYFIm 

"I'm doing this to defend the rule of law." Poland's top Supreme Court justice took a defiant stand on the courthouse steps in Warsaw on Wednesday, hours after the government purged the tribunalhttps://nyti.ms/2MPv4iF 

A woman protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policies scaled the base of the Statue of Liberty on Wednesdayhttps://nyti.ms/2MQJzD0 

A show featuring white singers performing black slave songs has been canceled at the Montreal International Jazz Festivalhttps://nyti.ms/2KxT25E 

The internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom lost another bid to avoid extradition to the United States on charges of copyright infringement and money launderinghttps://nyti.ms/2z88eAW 

A crisis that Britain has struggled to bring under control has now moved into an uncertain new phasehttps://nyti.ms/2tTA674 

"Some progressives seem to be pushing the narrative that Asians are not minorities, immigrants and people of color," said Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Democrat from Queens. And that's "even worse when done in the name of reform and social justice," he added.https://nyti.ms/2zeyLwG 

Serena Williams married Alexis Ohanian, an internet entrepreneur, last fall. And although she has not taken his name, Wimbledon is broadcasting her marital status with every matchhttps://nyti.ms/2KzaiHG 

Your daily @DealBook Briefing: • More than $2.5 trillion in deals were announced during the first half of the year. • Trump's trade war might not solve the problem it's meant to address. • The death of HNA's co-founder leaves the company in a bind.https://nyti.ms/2tUwiCk 

"If we lose those Chinese and Mexican markets, it will be hard to get them back," the secretary of the American Soybean Association saidhttps://nyti.ms/2tTWnBG 

European carmakers have turned Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee into auto manufacturing powerhouses in recent years. Yet being major employers in regions that voted heavily for President Trump has not protected them.https://nyti.ms/2tS16nl 

Those who made billions of dollars from sales of OxyContin, a painkiller at the center of the opioid crisis, have gone largely unpunishedhttps://nyti.ms/2tX1bWW 

"In 2018, you shouldn't have to file lawsuits so that kids get access to teachers and books," a lawyer saidhttps://nyti.ms/2tWWLPQ 

Since the summit meeting last month in Singapore, President Trump has done an about-face, while North Korea's nuclear program has continued, @SangerNYT writeshttps://nyti.ms/2zeOk7y 

"These children live in hopelessness and despair, and we’ve observed that it's getting worse," a lawyer said. "We are alarmed at the number of children who are imminently at risk of harm or death."https://nyti.ms/2KAW0pW