Tuesday morning started with Wall Street investors continuing to race down the streets of fear, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing more than 500 points in the opening moments of trading.

Traders then snapped up some values and the market loss ebbed. Five minutes after opening, the Dow was still down more than 260 points.

Volatility appears to be the new normal: By 9:45 a.m., the Dow was down a mere 29 points.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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