Global Markets Plummet, Wrongful Deportation Deadline, Second Measles Death

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President Trump's trade war has prompted further market declines. The Trump administration has a midnight deadline to return a man deported to El Salvador in what a federal judge has called a "grievous error". And, a second child in Texas has died of measles according to state health officials.

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0:00.0	President Trump's trade war prompted even more market declines, which he dismissed.
0:07.3	I don't want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.
0:12.2	What's making investors panic and why have the odds of a recession gone up?
0:16.1	I'm Steve Inskeep with A. Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:22.9	The Trump administration has a midnight deadline to return a man deported to El Salvador
0:27.2	and what a federal judge called a grievous error. So why is the Department of Justice put its
0:32.4	attorney on administrative leave? On day one, I issued a memo that you are to vigorously advocate on behalf of the
0:39.4	United States. And a second child in Texas has died of measles. It's not surprising that in
0:45.4	an outbreak of this size, that we're starting to see deaths. Stay with us. We've got all the
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