The United States imposed the first duties on $34 billion in Chinese goods Friday, launching a trade war between the world?s two largest economies. Moments later, the Chinese side fired back.
Evan Horowitz | Quick Study
There are no bullets or bombs, but trade wars have real casualties While the administration?s stated goal is to protect US industries and safeguard sensitive technology, stories of affected and aggrieved companies are starting to multiply.
The latest victim was a 60-year-old man who drowned while swimming at a Dennis beach Thursday, police said.
The Roxbury man is now also being charged with robbing three Charlestown stores at gunpoint in June.
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The BSO?s principal flutist says she is being paid far less than the man who is the principal oboist Elizabeth Rowe, the star principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is suing under the new Massachusetts Equal Pay Law, saying she was paid ?about three quarters? what the male principal oboist received.
US vows to reunite migrant children and parents by month?s end The federal government said it plans to reunite nearly 3,000 childen by the end of the month.
Army quietly discharges immigrant recruits promised path to citizenship Some immigrant Army reservists and recruits who enlisted with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged.
Trump closes in on Supreme Court pick; 3 judges top the list President Trump is closing in on his next Supreme Court nominee, with three federal judges leading the competition.
Northeastern University under fire for receiving millions from ICE contract A petition urges the university to end the contract. The college says the work does not deal directly with immigration enforcement or detention.
One cave diver called the effort to save 12 boys and their soccer coach the underground equivalent of climbing Mount Everest ? but with no guides to make things easier.
Rhode Island Dems rescind backing for Trump supporter The Rhode Island Democratic Party had unleashed a dayslong furor by endorsing a Donald Trump-voting male candidate over an incumbent woman.
The Labor Department also said the the unemployment rate rose to 4 percent from 3.8 percent as more people began looking for work.
Nestor Ramos
A tourist asked for recommendations in Boston. And social media responded ? with kindness What if we all saw our city through the eyes of an earnest tourist?
President Trump also made light of the #MeToo movement during Thursday night?s rally in Montana.
City Council is increasingly showing its independence from Mayor Walsh After a relatively cozy first four years with Mayor Walsh, the City Council lately has been going its own way.
THOMAS FARRAGHER
In Vermont, it?s the end of the typographical era To roam Twin State Typewriter is to take a step back into the Eisenhower Era.
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Soccer
The quarterfinals kicked off Friday, with some compelling matchups as the tournamenr reaches its final stages.
The last maître d? is here to serve you from a bygone time In a golden era of fine dining, a maitre d? was there to tend to your every need. Now they?re all gone, all but Frank Lunardi.
Singer Chris Brown arrested for felony battery on photographer in Florida Chris Brown walked off stage after his concert in Florida and into the hands of waiting sheriff?s deputies, who arrested him on a felony battery charge.
Elvis Costello cancels European tour dates after cancer surgery Elvis Costello has canceled the rest of his European summer tour after undergoing surgery for a ?small but very aggressive? cancerous tumor.
TECH NOMAD
5 (pretty easy) steps to improve civility online It?s not that we?ve suddenly become horrible people; it?s that we've gradually become horrible people.
Opinion | Amar Diwakar
Big Data doesn?t serve you ? it controls you The Web has become a global surveillance device that serves governments, major corporations, and political organizations at the expense of individual users.
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Biogen stock jumps on positive results for Alzheimer?s drug Biogen is declaring success with a treatment Alzheimer?s disease, pointing to positive secondary results from a mid-stage study in hopes of saving a drug many in the field had written off entirely.
Stan Grossfeld
This guy has 757 Red Sox bats, and each one tells a story Philadelphia lawyer Jeff Boujoukos owns a bat from nearly every Boston position player since 1960.
Opinion | Edward J. Markey
Americans deserve privacy protection from Big Data Congress should take steps to protect citizens? online privacy.
A night of horror, heroism, and tragedy in Coventry Six months after a fire killed a father and his little son, questions still outrun an answer to the biggest lingering question: Why couldn?t they get out?
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Watch ?Runnin??: The opioid crisis hits Somerville ?Runnin?,? now available for purchase on Vimeo, takes an intimate look at a group of friends in Somerville who came of age as the opioid epidemic took hold and morphed into a national nightmare. It retraces the lives of friends lost, and one last member of the group struggling to avoid the same fate.
Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan spoke at a Globe event on how innovation is shaping our world, and she?s in high demand among the hundreds of mayors gathered in Boston.
Love Letters Podcast
Getting over a breakup Meredith Goldstein explores how to move on when a relationship ends.
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Boston begins play in Las Vegas on Friday night vs. the 76ers.
A group of business folks saw their offer to raise funds for mounted patrols rebuffed by the Boston Police Foundation. Now they?re starting their own group.
Mortgage rates have declined in five of the past six weeks, offering relief to would-be home buyers.
Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency, resigned after a cascade of controversies over his lavish spending, ethical lapses, and management decisions.
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The City of Boston is strongly encouraging those who decide to partake in the city's July 4th activities to refrain from using personal vehicles.
Wheeler helped lead an industry fight against regulations that protect Americans? health and address climate change.
The money will help Starry expand its wireless broadband service to 16 other US cities.
On this girlfriends? getaway, we had one goal: to sample the gorgeous confections from three superstar New England bakers we?d come to love on TV.
Fast, funny, and full of likable stars and scientific mumbo-jumbo, it may be the Platonic Ideal of the summer air-conditioning movie.
He can ?bear-ly? contain his excitement.
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Spring House Hunt: Should parents buy property in a college town? As the spring house hunt gets underway and National College Decision Day nears, thoughts are turning to campus housing.
Barry Chin/Globe Staff
The Big Picture
Here?s a look at some of the best images taken by Globe photographers last month: watching World Cup soccer, the annual Boston Pride Parade, and protesting gun volence.
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