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NPR News: 04-02-2025 5PM EDT

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

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0:00.0

Hey, it's A. Martinez, a lot of short daily news podcast focus on one story, but sometimes you need a bit bit more.

0:09.4

For Up First on NPR, we bring you the three top world headlines every single day in under 15 minutes,

0:15.6

because no one story can capture all that's happening in this Mundo Tangrande on any given morning. So listen to the up first podcast from NPR.

0:25.2

Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. laying out a litany of grievances against

0:32.5

tariffs charged by other countries against U.S. imports. President Trump presented

0:37.1

his own retaliatory tariffs today.

0:39.6

Speaking at the White House Rose Garden, Trump predicting with the levees, quote, American factories will come roaring back.

0:45.9

The imminent tariffs against countries including India, China, Japan, and the European Union, ranged from a 10% baseline to nearly 50%, depending on what those countries

0:55.3

charge the U.S.

0:56.3

I will sign a historic executive order instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout

1:03.4

the world.

1:04.1

Reciprocal, that means they do it to us and we do it to them.

1:08.7

Very simple.

1:09.6

It can't get any simpler than that.

1:11.6

Trump said companies that build their products in the U.S. will face no tariffs.

1:15.6

Many economists have said raising tariffs on goods imported by other countries will result in higher prices for U.S. consumers.

1:22.8

Trump also said 25 percent tariffs against cars imported into the U.S. will take effect after midnight.

1:29.2

Democrats won a key judicial race in Wisconsin and Republicans won two special elections in Florida this week.

1:36.1

NPR's Domenica Maternalo says the results are giving Democrats some hope and Republicans some cause for worry.

1:41.4

The win in Wisconsin for Democrats was big because it saw the most spending

1:44.5

for any judicial seat in history, and it became something of a referendum on Elon Musk. Musk spent

1:50.1

roughly $20 million to support the conservative judge in the race and even made an appearance in the

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