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Hey, it's Sarah Gonzalez. The economy has been in the news a lot lately. It's kind of always in the news and Planet Money is always here to explain it. Each episode we tell a sometimes quirky, sometimes surprising, always interesting story that helps you better understand the economy. So when you hear something about cryptocurrency or where exactly your taxes go, yes, I was. Listen to the Planet Money podcast from NPR. ago. Yes, I was listening to the Planet Money podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump and Elon Musk's public spat is growing. Musk continues to call for lawmakers to kill Trump's huge spending and tax cut package that's currently in the Senate

saying it will cause a recession this year. Trump says Musk knew all about the bill, which Musk denies, and he says he may cancel the federal contracts for Musk's companies. And that prompted Musk to say his SpaceX company will immediately start to decommission its Dragon spacecraft. And Piers Daniel Kurtzleben has more. There have been business consequences. Shares of Tesla plummeted this afternoon. Another point is that there are very tight margins to pass that big, beautiful bill on Capitol Hill. So if Musk has some pull with even a few Republicans, that could very much hurt that bill's chances of passing. But there's one more really important point here. Amid all of this today, Musk posted, quote, without me, Trump would have lost the

election. Now that's a reminder. He's saying that he dumped more than a quarter of a billion dollars into the 2024 election. Danielle Pletka, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New York Times, The New

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Rubio says the other two authorized what he calls a baseless investigation into U.S. personnel in Afghanistan. Rubio writes, the politicized targeting of America and our close ally Israel must end. The U.S. and Israel have argued that the International Criminal Court does not have jurisdiction in these cases. Michelle Kelliman, NPR News, the State Department. Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached a new high for modern record-keeping. That's according to scientists at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. NPR's Jeff Brady has more. Humans burning of fossil fuels releases the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. There the CO2 acts like a blanket, warms

the lower atmosphere, leading to more extreme heat waves, droughts, flooding, and wildfires. The Mauna Loa Observatory is considered the global benchmark for monitoring CO2 concentrations. Levels peak every year in May in the Northern Hemisphere before plants absorb CO2 during the summer growing season. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography says last month the concentration was 3.6 parts per million higher than a year ago. Jeff Brady, NPR News. US futures contracts are trading in mixed territory at this hour. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. at this hour, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. A federal judge says AmeriCorps has to restore its programs in 24 states after the Trump

administration gutted them. But it's only a partial victory for the National Service Agency. The judge agreed with two dozen Democratic-led states that AmeriCorps did not follow proper procedure in dismantling its programs. In April, Elon Musk's Doge ordered the agency to terminate nearly $400 million in grants, in effect firing workers at 1,000 other organizations. It's not clear how many, though, can be rehired. The American tennis star Coco Goff has advanced to the final of the French

Open. There, she'll meet the top ranked Irina Shabalyeva for the chance to win her second Grand Slam title. And Pierce Becky Sullivan has more. In the semifinal, Coco Goff faced a crowd favorite in the French player Lois Bosson, who was making a Cinderella run through the Open despite being ranked just 361st in the world, Goff shut the door on Bosson's fairytale ending by beating her in straight sets 6-1, 6-2. Her victory sets up a final between the top two players in the world, a first for the French Open in the past three decades. Irina Salbyenka is number one after a stellar 2024 in which she won both the Australian Open and the US Open, and Goff is number two. Goff hasn't won won both the Australian Open and the US Open.

And Goff is number two. Goff hasn't won a Grand Slam since her thrilling US Open victory two years ago, but the person she beat there was Sobhyaenko. The final will take place Saturday. Becky Sullivan, NPR News. And I'm Janene Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.