Tonight the markets take a wild ride, chaos and confusion from Wall Street to Washington.

Markets today plunging, soaring, and plunging again before closing mix for the day.

Top business leaders warning of the economic impact of the president's tariffs,

but Trump defending his plan and threatening to hit China with even bigger fees.

Evacuations and rescues as deadly floodwaters threatened communities across the Midwest and South.

The small plane that scattered off a runway in Oregon and ended up submerged in the bay.

The Supreme Court weighing in saying the Maryland father mistakenly sent to Al Salvador's

notorious prison by the Trump administration should stay where he is for now, all after

he was ordered to return to the U.S. by a federal judge.

The growing worry in West Texas over the worsening measles outbreak, a second child dead.

What health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now saying

about vaccines. NBC News exclusive inside the Pennsylvania mine used for federal paperwork that Elon Musk's

doge team likened to the digital stone age. The daycare debate should children be given melatonin to help with nap time without their

parents' knowledge, and Ann Thompson on the penguins of a certain age, and the special island made

just for them. This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome.

The market still spooked by President Trump's tariffs took investors on a wild ride today.

Still, the Dow finishing in the red, shedding 349 points, the NASDAQ, eking out small gains,

the S&P 500 finishing at a loss, all after the president rejected

pumping the brakes on tariffs and threatened to move forward with additional 50% tariffs on

China if China moves forward with retaliatory tariffs of its own. The markets rallied early

in the day on a false report that a 90-day pause might be in the

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