The News Roundup For April 4, 2025
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🗓️ 4 April 2025
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Elon Musk took a hit in Wisconsin. Liberal candidate Susan Crawford emerged victorious in the special election to the state's Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, the White House is working to find countries that will take migrants deported from the U.S. Reporting this week found that the Trump Administration has contacted governments in South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
The war in Gaza is the deadliest for journalists in history.
French politician and far-right leader Marine le Pen was barred from running for public office for half a decade as she was found guilty of embezzlement by a court in Paris.
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| 0:16.3 | Hi, it's Jen, your host for this edition of The News Roundup. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:22.2 | The news is rapidly changing, and things may have shifted by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:27.0 | So stay up to date with all the latest by listening to your local NPR member station or visiting npr.org. |
| 0:33.8 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. |
| 0:43.5 | Thank you. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. You're listening to the One-A podcast. I'm Jen White, and this is the News Roundup. |
| 0:48.8 | 22%. That's the average new tariff rate set by the Trump administration up from two and a half percent last year. |
| 0:56.2 | $3,800. |
| 0:57.6 | That's how much the Yale Budget Lab estimates the resulting price hikes will cost the average American household this year. |
| 1:04.5 | 5%. |
| 1:05.3 | That's how far the S&P fell on Thursday alone. |
| 1:08.4 | It's a worst day since June 2020. |
| 1:12.2 | So where do we go from here? |
| 1:16.2 | Joining us to talk about that and everything else that happened this week, well, at least as much as we can get to. Here in studio, we have Amanda Becker. She's Washington correspondent for the 19th. |
| 1:21.1 | Amanda, it's great to see you. Great to be here. And the wonderful Zoe Clark is political director |
| 1:25.9 | at Michigan Public and co-host of It's Just Politics. Hey, Zoe. |
| 1:29.7 | Hello, wonderful, Jen White. And with us to start is Enda Curran. He's the Global Economy News reporter for Bloomberg News. And I welcome back. |
| 1:37.0 | Thank you very much, Jim. I'm thinking it's been a long night for you. The global stock market is in a tailspin following President Trump's highly anticipated and wide-ranging tariff announcement on Wednesday. |
| 1:47.2 | And while the market signal low confidence in the president's plan, his administration is fully backing him. |
| 1:52.2 | Let Donald Trump run the global economy. |
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