IN BRIEF
● The trade war between the U.S. and China escalated. The Trump administration slapped higher duties on $200 billion of imports from China, which retaliated by raising duties on about $60 billion in U.S. goods, defying a call from Trump for restraint. The presidents of the world’s two largest economies are likely to meet at a G-20 summit at the end of June. ● A jury ordered Bayer to pay more than $2b in damages to a California couple who claimed they got cancer as a result of using the company’s Roundup weedkiller for three decades. Bayer vowed to challenge the ruling. ● Pro-choice activists protest at the Alabama State House in Montgomery as the state’s Senate approved the strictest anti-abortion bill in the U.S. ● Alice Rivlin, the first woman to lead the…