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Apr 2025
1h 24m

Stocks Plunge As Trump Trade War Batters...

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It was a brutal end of the week for United States markets with the Dow losing more than 2,000 points today alone. What does President Trump think of the fallout from his new tariffs and how long could this chaos last? Plus, a striking court hearing today ends with a judge ordering the United States government to return a man who the government admits was mistakenly deported. 

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