News Wrap: Walmart says it is raising prices due to tariffs
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We start the day's other headlines with the impact of President Trump's tariffs. |
| 0:04.7 | The nation's largest retailer, Walmart, is planning to raise prices in the coming weeks, |
| 0:09.9 | citing Trump's policies as a driving factor. Walmart's head said today that, quote, |
| 0:14.5 | given the magnitude of the tariffs, we aren't able to absorb all the pressure given the reality |
| 0:19.9 | of narrow retail margins. |
| 0:22.2 | Walmart posted strong quarterly sales today, but declined to give a profit outlook due to ongoing economic uncertainty. |
| 0:29.0 | In the meantime, consumers are growing increasingly uneasy. |
| 0:32.7 | New government data shows that the pace of retail sales slowed sharply in April from the month before. |
| 0:38.3 | A judge in Wisconsin pleaded not guilty today to federal charges over accusations she helped a man evade federal immigration agents. |
| 0:47.3 | Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan allegedly escorted the person out the back door of her courtroom last month as agents sought |
| 0:55.4 | his arrest for being in the U.S. illegally. Get angry. Get loud. Dozens of demonstrators gathered |
| 1:04.2 | outside the courthouse ahead of today's hearing. Dugan's arrest has been a flashpoint and the |
| 1:09.4 | broader tensions over President Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown. |
| 1:13.6 | She could face up to six years in prison if convicted. |
| 1:17.2 | A federal judge has dismissed charges against dozens of migrants who'd been detained for trespassing in a newly designated, militarized zone at the southern border. |
| 1:27.5 | The Trump administration recently transferred oversight of 180-mile strip of land in New Mexico |
| 1:33.2 | to the military. |
| 1:34.9 | Entering the area unauthorized carries a potential sentence of at least a year in prison. |
| 1:40.0 | But today, a U.S. District Court judge ruled that the government had provided, quote, |
| 1:44.2 | no facts from which one could reasonably conclude that the defendant knew he was entering |
| 1:49.5 | the zone. |
| 1:50.6 | The migrants could still face other misdemeanor charges and deportation. |
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