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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Wall Street is looking at another volatile day after global
tariffs went into effect. That midnight, stocks open lower and
have now been higher since then. More from Business correspondent
Brian Chung.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
The broad story here is that that volatility is still
very much in place again. As we've seen over the
last few days, markets will open in one place and
in another place, and through the day you could fill
in the gaps. We might be up by percent, down
by three percent. It is just all over the place
because of the fact that the tariff headlines are still
coming in, and today they are coming in by the
droves as well. Not only did the European Union oppose
that twenty five percent levy, which by the way, they

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did float a few weeks ago, it's now official, but
China responding with ratcheting up their retaliatory tariffs. They were
originally going to put fifty four percent on American goods.
Now that is up to over eighty percent.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Jen s Mackie Freyer. This morning in Beijing.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
President Trump has said that China wants to make a
deal badly, but there's no indication here that Beijing even
wants to talk, let alone line up with the dozens
of other countries that are now looking to the White
House for tariff relief.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
In a truth social post this morning after the opening bell,
President Trump said, be cool. Everything is going to work
out well. The US will be bigger and better than
ever before. Three people are dead and three others are
injured after a shooting in Virginia yesterday. The Spotsylvania County
Sheriff's Office has deputies found all six victims outdoors or

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no suspects, and the ages of the victims are not known.
Two former MLB players are among the more than one
hundred dead in a roof collapse at a Dominican Republic nightclub.
More from Scott Pringle, the.

Speaker 5 (01:45):
Mets held a moment of silence to honor Octovio Dotel
at their game on Tuesday. He played with thirteen teams
after getting a start with the Mets in nineteen ninety nine.
Also among the dead famous singer Ruby Perez, who often
performed for the Dominican community in Washington Heights.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
The early Tuesday tragedy has claimed at least one hundred
thirteen lives I'm Michael Kassner, but the second time a
judge has ruled in favor of Huntington Beach. California's voter
ID law affirms the city's right as a charter city
to enforce local election rules. More from Chris Powers.

Speaker 6 (02:19):
Mayor Pat Burns called the decision a significant victory for
both the city and other charter cities in California. The
law requires ID at polling places, which state officials argue
contradicts California law. The state reportedly plans to appeal, but
for now the law is set to go into effect
next year.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Hollywood studios are getting optimistic about the slate of summer movies.
Chris Kragio with more.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
This comes after Warner Brothers. A Minecraft movie, made one
hundred and sixty three million dollars at the domestic box
office during its debut last week. Roth analyst Eric Handler
says Minecraft looks like a positive start to a summer
packed with more block busters. Thunderbolts gets things started on
May second, followed by Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, Disney's

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live action Lelo and Stitch, Jurassic World Rebirth, Superman, and
The Fantastic Four.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
First Steps Speaking of Minecraft. A New Jersey movie theater
is banning on accompanied miners from seeing a Minecraft movie
following an unruly incident captured in a viral TikTok video.
More from Kristen Marx.

Speaker 7 (03:25):
Dave Rose, the owner of the Township Theater and Washington
Township in Bergen County, says they didn't think anything of
it when kids kept showing up by themselves last week.

Speaker 8 (03:34):
Apparently there was memes on TikTok that basically incite rowdy
behavior based on things that the characters say.

Speaker 7 (03:45):
Rose says the kids, numbering around seventy five, got rowdy
through stuff, jumped up on seats, squirted hand cream all
over the place.

Speaker 8 (03:52):
And they destroyed a row of seats. They were uplifted
out of the anchors.

Speaker 7 (03:59):
Rose says, shockingly, some parents defended their kids.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'm Michael Kassner.