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Trump invokes emergency authority; Big 3 automakers closing

by Associated Press
| March 18, 2020 10:27 AM

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Donald Trump moved to invoke a federal law Wednesday that allows the government to marshal industry to fight the coronavirus, as the economic fallout from the crisis mounted with word that Detroit's Big Three automakers are shutting down their North American factories to protect workers.

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