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NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt

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4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Europe and Canada retaliate against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs; Markets closed mixed as inflation eases; Dept of Education cuts half its workforce; and more on tonight’s broadcast.

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0:00.0	Tonight, the trade wars enter a new chapter as tariffs fly from America to Europe to Canada.
0:06.0	America and its closest trading partners hit each other on steel, aluminum, even bourbon,
0:11.0	bikes and blue jeans.
0:13.0	While some celebrate at home, Canada, one of our biggest trade partners, left furious and firing back.
0:19.0	Despite news of cooling inflation, markets losing their
0:22.3	momentum for a mixed day on Wall Street, Christine Roman's on how to make sense of it all.
0:27.7	Protests outside of a court hearing for the Columbia grad students set to be deported by the Trump
0:32.9	administration, a case that's pitted free speech against claims of anti-Semitism, what Laura Jared learned in court.
0:40.7	Just in are Brian Kohlberger's lawyers planning a bold new strategy, why a defense expert may claim a key piece of evidence was planted.
0:49.8	The search for a missing spring break student, a Virginia sheriff saying there's a person of interest
0:55.0	we're in the Dominican Republic with the latest.
0:57.0	The flood watch for Orange County and 20 million in California put flash floods turned burn scars into rivers of debris.
1:05.0	All eyes in the skies for crew tens lift off to the International Space Station to relieve Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams.
1:13.5	And our exclusive, after centuries beneath the ash of Pompeii, the new artifacts our Molly Hunter is digging up tonight.
1:22.7	This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
1:27.2	Good evening and welcome. The President Trump-led trade war rocking both This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
1:28.5	Good evening and welcome.
1:33.2	The President Trump-led trade war rocking both friends and foes tonight.
1:40.2	Washington slapping global trading partners with a 25% hike in tariffs paid on steel and aluminum imports.
1:52.1	The move invited swift retaliation from the EU and Canada, which placed retaliatory trade duties on roughly $21 billion of U.S. products from computers to water heaters.
1:58.4	The EU, meanwhile, targeting $28 billion in U.S. goods, including beef, poultry, and eggs.
2:02.0	Today, Canada's foreign minister with a message for Americans that Canada is not the one driving at the cost of groceries. President Trump vowing
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