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(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. President Trump concluded his two-day visit to France on a high note. Following celebrations of Bastille Day and the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I, Mr. Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France warmly shook hands.

Two Pennsylvania men have been charged in the murder of four young men whose disappearances last week led to a widespread search of a vast farm and other sites north of Philadelphia. The four men were reported missing over a two-day period starting on July 5.

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HONG KONG — Nearly three years after sweeping pro-democracy protests filled the streets of removing four legislators from office and assuring China greater influence over the city’s government. The pro-democracy lawmakers were dismissed from the Hong Kong Legislative Council because they had used unacceptable words or even dubious tones in taking oaths of office that require declarations of loyalty to China.

It was a performance art piece that became famous: A woman who felt that a yearlong project in which she carried a 50-pound mattress whenever she was on the Morningside Heights campus. The woman, Emma Sulkowicz, won national acclaim and was largely embraced by her fellow students, who often helped her carry her burden, which she even brought to a

PARIS — With a warm clasping of hands, President Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France cemented an unlikely but budding relationship on Friday, capped by a Bastille Day military parade in Paris meant to emphasize the alliance between the United States and its oldest ally. Despite some wariness in the initial contacts between Mr. Trump, 71, and Mr. Macron — who at 39 is the same age as Mr. Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.

WASHINGTON — Ty Cobb, a veteran Washington lawyer, is joining President Trump’s legal team to coordinate the response to the expanding investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia’s election interference, reflecting a growing sense among West Wing officials that the president’s private lawyer, Marc E.

WASHINGTON — He is a veteran of the Red Army, photographed in the 1980s with fellow soldiers in a Russian birch forest. He collects fine art, likes opera and owns a nearly $2 million townhouse in trendy Logan Circle, in the center of Washington. He often zips around the city on a bright orange bicycle. On Friday, Rinat Akhmetshin, the Soviet army veteran, revealed another detail of an exotic life: He was one of the people at the meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016. The presence of Mr.

WASHINGTON — He is a veteran of the Red Army, photographed in the 1980s with fellow soldiers in a Russian birch forest. He collects fine art, likes opera and owns a nearly $2 million townhouse in trendy Logan Circle, in the center of Washington. He often zips around the city on a bright orange bicycle. On Friday, Rinat Akhmetshin, the Soviet army veteran, revealed another detail of an exotic life: He was one of the people at the meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016. The presence of Mr.

The revised Senate health bill has a dwindling list of winners and a bigger pool of potential losers. It would still make insurance much less affordable for poorer and older Americans who don’t get coverage through work or Medicare. It would make that insurance less valuable for many people with the most significant health care needs.