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President Trump responded on Twitter Saturday to reports that foreign governments are weighing their options in response to his spontaneous declaration of a trade war earlier this week. He claimed the United States is mocked and impoverished by our trade partners, promising to escalate the trade war with additional tariffs if other countries retaliate economically:

Kansas does not have a legal minimum age for the office of governor, and for the 2018 race, six teenagers have decided to avail themselves of this legal loophole to seek their state's highest administrative office before they themselves can vote.

A Central Michigan University student suspected of killing his parents Friday has been taken into custody by police.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who allegedly had an affair with President Trump around the time his third wife, first lady Melania Trump, gave birth to their son, threatened to go public with her story shortly before the 2016 election, The Washington Post reported Friday evening.

At least seven people were killed in connection to the "bomb cyclone" storm that swept through the Northeast Friday, and some 2.3 million people remain without power in their homes and businesses. Amtrak has suspended service along its Northeast corridor; 3,300 flights have been canceled; and there are road closures thanks to downed trees and power lines from Maryland to Maine.

A couple from Joshua Tree, California, were arrested Thursday on suspicion of willful cruelty to their children after police discovered three children living in a makeshift plywood hut without electricity or running water.

Foreign governments are weighing their options following President Trump's apparently capricious declaration of a trade war on Wednesday. "We will put tariffs on Harley-Davidson, on bourbon and on blue jeans— Levi's," said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker of possible means of retaliation should Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs plan be realized.

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President Trump's unplanned announcement that he will slap a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminum sent the stock market reeling Thursday. Friday morning, Trump seemed to welcome the upheaval. "When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win," he tweeted. "Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don't trade anymore — we win big. Читать дальше...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said the United States must send him evidence more substantial than "yelling and hollering in the United States Congress" if he is to respond to allegations of Moscow's meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

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Wild ducks and coots gather at Lake Balaton near Budapest, Hungary. | (Gergely Janossy/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

In today's installment of Football Players Who Suddenly Decide They Want to Play Major League Baseball, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson wore a New York Yankees uniform and swung at a baseball in a real spring training game, ESPN reports.