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MORE departs late Friday for what is poised to be a busy, and possibly tense, meeting with leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) economies in France over the weekend. The summit comes at a time of global economic turmoil, and is certain to display international divides over trade, climate change, Syria’s civil war and other global security challenges.  Trump is also facing pressure over his trade war with China and growing worries that the U.S. economy could be headed toward a recession.

MORE on Friday announced plans to increase tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese goods in a sweeping response to duties announced by Beijing earlier in the day. Trump tweeted that a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion in Chinese goods set to go into effect on Sept. 1 would increase to 15 percent, and that an additional $250 billion being tariffed at 25 percent will be hit with a 30 percent tariff starting Oct.

On Friday, Chinese officials announced that they would be retaliating against the U.S.

Two weeks ago, 25-year-old illegal alien Rodrigo A. Castro-Montejo from El Salvador was charged with assaulting and raping a woman. According to the police reports obtained by Kevin Lewis, Castro-Montejo raped the woman after she had a long night of drinking. The woman told police she was drunk when Castro-Montejo took her back to his hotel room.

The New York Post has uncovered tweets demonstrating that Wright-Piersanti, while employed at Newark’s Star-Ledger newspaper in New Jersey a decade ago, had a particular fondness for the use of the word “douche.” “Wright-Piersanti’s Twitter page suggests he adores the word ‘douche,’ which crops up more than a dozen times,” the New York Post‘s Keith Kelly wrote Thursday evening. In fact, he even described the work product his future colleagues at the New York Times publish as “douche zest.” “What the NYTimes does is take your story, spice it up with a dash of

Ginsburg, 86, began radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City on August 5th, according to the court. Doctors from the hospital said tests show that the rest of the justice’s body is cancer-free. As part of Ginsburg’s treatment, doctors inserted a stent into her bile duct. “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City,” the court’s statement reads.

Representative Seth Moulton, a Marine combat veteran who rocketed to national attention when he defeated an entrenched incumbent five years ago, ended his long-shot presidential campaign on Friday, a decision that sends him back to his North Shore district, where he faces a contested path to reelection. A Harvard-educated centrist who served four tours in Iraq, Moulton entered the presidential race in April and made foreign policy, veterans’ issues, and national service the centerpieces of his campaign.

David H. Koch, who amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune with his brother Charles from the corporate behemoth they ran and then joined him in pouring their riches into a powerful right-wing libertarian movement that helped reshape American politics, has died. He was 79. Charles G. Koch announced the death in a statement, which provided no other details but noted that David Koch had been treated for prostate cancer in the past. “Twenty-seven years ago,” the statement said, “David was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and given a grim prognosis of a few years to live.

WASHINGTON — President Trump said he’s raising tariffs further on Chinese imports in response to Beijing’s retaliation earlier in the day, deepening the impasse over the two nations’ trade policies. Duties on $250 billion of imports already in effect will rise to 30 percent from 25 percent on Oct. 1, Trump said in a series of tweets Friday after US markets closed. He also said that the remaining $300 billion in Chinese imports will be taxed at 15 percent instead of 10 percent starting Sept.

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh isn’t ruling out the possibility of running for Senate — but only if a seat were to become open, the New York Times reported Friday. But as Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III publicly mulls whether he’ll challenge Senator Edward J.