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Go to Economist.com and get your first month free. Happening now, recession fears grip Wall Street. Stock prices tumbling as the Federal

Reserve's downbeat new economic forecast starts to sink in.

Also this hour, a CNN exclusive

outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

and Senate Majority of Chuck Schumer

in their first joint sit-down interview.

They're weighing in on whether President Biden should run again

and whether Trump might win.

And Russia is ramping up its threats

as the US finalizes plans to send Patriot missile defenses to Ukraine.

Moscow, no warning of what they're calling unpredictable consequences.

Tonight the Pentagon is firing back.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer. prices here in the United States as fears of recession rise.

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