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Up First podcast from NPR. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The worst trading day

of the year so far on Wall Street today, all the major U.S. stock market indices closed sharply lower,

with the Dow, the NASDAQ, and the standard, and pores 500 falling 2% or more.

Since its peak last month, roughly $4 trillion, and wealth has been erased from the S&P alone.

In an interview today with CNN, economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers,

says much of the blame goes to a barrage of Trump administration trade policies that are

worrying in businesses and investors.

All of the ambiguity and uncertainty created about tariffs has ironically both chilled demand,

made businesses not invests, made consumers think they should hold off before

making big spending commitments. Summers called the market downturn, at least in part, a self-inflicted

wound. President Trump over the weekend declined to rule out the possibility the U.S. could be

headed for recession. The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case this fall that challenges

the ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ plus children in Colorado. More than 20 states prohibit

the practice. The Colorado case involves a Christian therapist, and as Colorado Public Radio's

Haley-May reports how the court rules could impact bans on conversion therapy nationwide.

Attorney Jim Campbell says Colorado's minor conversion therapy law violates the free speech rights of Christian

counselor Kaylee Childs. Colorado censors Kaylee from speaking words her clients want to hear

because the government does not like the views she expresses.

Democratic State Senator Daphne-Sin-Aidt says the law protects children.

We know that children have died from this type of treatment, and we know that it is not in the

best interest of the child.

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