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Daily Briefing: Trump's long-awaited tariffs

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President Donald Trump plans to launch sweeping reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday .

Up to four months' worth of rain will fall in five days along portions of a 1,000-mile -long swath from Texas to Ohio .

Some health experts sounded the alarm as a plan to cut 10,000 jobs from Health and Human Services began on Tuesday .

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