Toby Melville | Reuters Firefighters direct jets of water onto a tower block severely damaged by a serious fire, in north Kensington, West London, Britain June 14, 2017. Authorities in London said Saturday that 58 people are missing and presumed dead from this week’s fire disaster at London high-rise tower. …

Jeon Heon-Kyun | Getty Images Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind. Meanwhile Google has enhanced its core search engine, Gmail, Google Street View, Google Photos, Google Translate, YouTube and other applications using AI. In recent years several open-source frameworks for deep learning have emerged, but Google’s …

Mikhail Klimentyev | Kremlin | Sputnik | Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a live nationwide broadcasted call-in in Moscow, Russia, June 15, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin said new sanctions under consideration by the United States would damage relations between the two countries, but it was too early to …

• The judge in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial has resisted multiple calls for a mistrial from Mr. Cosby’s lawyers, though it is not clear as the sixth day of deliberations dawns whether the jury has any chance of reaching a verdict. • The jury has been deliberating for …

Before his election as the junior senator from Minnesota by a narrow margin in 2008, Mr. Franken, 66, was a longtime writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live,” beginning in its debut season. After leaving “S.N.L.,” he became a nationally syndicated radio host and wrote a series of best-selling books …

Photo People arrived for Shakespeare in the Park’s production of “Julius Caesar” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Monday. Credit Bryan R. Smith/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A production of “Julius Caesar” in Central Park was disrupted on Friday evening by two protesters who objected to the bloody …

Photo Madison Wolfe in “The Conjuring 2.” Credit Matt Kennedy/Warner Bros. Go for chills as the Amityville investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren, played by Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, take on a case in London. Or dance away the weekend with the Electric Daisy Carnival. What’s on TV THE CONJURING …

JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT at Beacon Theater (June 22-24, 8 p.m.). The Alabama musician Jason Isbell spent several years as a central member of the Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers before going solo in 2007. His album “Something More Than Free” was highly praised by critics in 2015 …

One of Mr. Avildsen’s earlier films, “Save the Tiger,” a 1973 drama, earned Jack Lemmon the Oscar for best actor. And Mr. Avildsen’s 1982 short documentary “Traveling Hopefully” was nominated for an Academy Award. Continue reading the main story “The Karate Kid,” which had its premiere in 1984, is the …

Photo A performance in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for last year’s Make Music New York. Credit Alex Wroblewski for The New York Times Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera. TIMO ANDRES AND DAVID KAPLAN at National Sawdust (June 17, 7 p.m.). Because of the burdens on …