Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, President

Trump hits pause on many of his tariffs, the global response, plus how the back and forth

is affecting businesses and consumers. Amid a roller coaster week for the stock market, how the

global trade wars could affect Americans' personal finances.

And Judy Woodruff goes underground to explore some of the little-known, sometimes life-saving work done by government employees who are now being fired on mass.

If you want to destroy the society, you destroy the government.

Welcome to the news hour.

President Trump stunned many this afternoon by pausing higher tariff rates on most countries for 90 days, just hours after they kicked in.

The president raised tariffs specifically on Chinese imports to 125% after Beijing retaliated overnight.

And a 10% across-the-board tariff that took effect last week

remains in place. All of this led to an historic day of market rallies after multiple days of steep

drops. The Dow closed almost 3,000 points higher, up nearly 8%. The NASDAQ rocketed to its best day

in nearly a quarter century, up 12%, and the

broadest measure. The S&P 500 had its biggest gain since 2008, up 9.5%. Lisa Desjardin begins our

coverage. An extraordinary change, of course, after a night of market turmoil and action by other

global powers.

Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippy,

you know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid. Speaking at a NASCAR event,

at the White House, President Trump explained why he paused a wave of tariffs on much of the world

hours after they took effect.

The deal's going to be made with every one of them.

And there'll be fair deals.

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