Seesawing Tariffs, Trump's Middle East Agenda, Sean 'Diddy' Combs Trial

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

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Companies are rushing to import merchandise while a temporary trade deal between the U.S. and China is in place, but what happens after the 90-day arrangement expires is unclear. As President Trump visits the Middle East, economic opportunities and security issues top the agenda. Jurors hear often graphic testimony on the first day Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial.

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0:00.0	A temporary softening of tariffs on Chinese products has investors relieved.
0:07.4	And some business owners are racing to import merchandise, but...
0:10.9	We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. It's very unpredictable.
0:13.5	I'm Leila Faudin with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.5	President Trump is in Riyadh for his first overseas state visit, and leaders in the region
0:25.9	are prepared to make deals with the famously transactional president.
0:30.1	You'll see Mr. Trump's visit.
0:31.7	There'll be a whole slew of economic agreements that will be signed joint ventures, investment
0:36.4	agreements.
0:37.3	What do Gulf states want in return?
0:39.9	And jurors heard graphic allegations on day one of Sean Diddy Combs' sex trafficking trial.
0:45.0	His defense team argues that Combs is a complicated man but not a criminal.
0:49.4	Stay with us. We'll give you the news you need to start your day.
1:05.9	You may have heard that President Trump has issued an executive order seeking to block all federal funding to NPR.
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1:31.7	On the Indicator from Planet Money podcast, we're here to help you make sense of the economic news from Trump's tariffs.
1:39.4	It's called in game theory a trigger strategy, or sometimes called grim trigger, which sort of has a cowboy-esque ring to it. To what exactly a sovereign wealth fund is.
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1:49.5	When Malcolm Gladwell presented NPR's ThruLine podcast with a Peabody Award,
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