NPR News Now - NPR News: 06-05-2025 8PM EDT

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

NPR News: 06-05-2025 8PM EDTLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Support for NPR and the following message come from Yarle and Pamela Mohn, thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Herbst. A unanimous Supreme Court today revived a straight woman's claim of so-called reverse discrimination. And here's Nina Totenberg has more. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals tossed her case out at an early stage because she didn't meet the higher bar that the appeals court required in discrimination cases involving members of a majority group. But today the Supreme Court rejected that higher bar and writing for the court, Justice

Katanji Brown Jackson, pointed to the text of the federal employment discrimination law. She said that by establishing the same protections for every individual, Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority group plaintiffs. And here's Nina Totenberg reporting. In the continuing public spat between President Trump and Elon Musk, Trump says Musk's criticism When the spending bill now in the Senate is sad and he says he may cancel Musk's federal contracts. In return, Musk says his company SpaceX will immediately start decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft.

Musk also says Trump's tariffs will lead to a recession this year. All this sent stock in Musk's company Tesla Tesla, down more than 14% by the close, and the company's total value dropped by more than a billion dollars. And here's Kamila Dominovski has more. Tesla stocks soared after the election, as investors hoped Musk's closeness with Trump would pay off for his companies. But shares fell as they began to worry instead that Musk's work at Doge was alienating customers and distracting him from being a CEO. Now the two men have very publicly fallen out. Trump said he was disappointed in Musk.

Musk accused Trump of ingratitude. Trump threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk's companies. And now Musk says the reason the file on convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is being kept secret is because Trump's in that file. Tesla stock saw one of its largest single-day drops in years. Kamila Dominovski, NPR News. Hundreds of Colorado River experts are gathered in Colorado this week to talk about how to share the shrinking water supply in the future. Alex Hager from member station KUNC has more. Negotiators from the seven

states that use the Colorado River decided to skip this conference, instead choosing to focus on closed door meetings that haven't shown much progress. Jim Lockhead, Colorado's former top water negotiator, said those meetings might be more productive with others in the room, like federal and tribal governments. The current process to me kind of feels like the conclave. We're waiting for the black smoke or the white smoke to come out of the seven and tribal governments. The current process, to me, kind of feels like the conclave. We're waiting for the black smoke or the white smoke to come out of the seven-state negotiating

room. Scientists at the conference say climate change is rapidly shrinking the Colorado River's water supply, making new policies about water use even more urgent. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Boulder, Colorado. U.S. futures contracts are trading in mixed territory at this hour. Dow futures are up about one-tenth of a percent. This is NPR News. President Trump's travel ban on a dozen countries includes a prohibition on Afghans coming to

the US. MPs Greg Myhre reports many came to the US in recent years and many more are still trying to come. The president's travel ban applies to Afghanistan, though it does include an exception. Afghans who served with the U.S. during the war there can still pursue what's known as a special immigrant visa. Around 200,000 Afghans have come to the U.S. since the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal four years ago. In addition, more than 200,000 Afghans outside the U.S. military withdrawal four years ago. In addition, more than 200,000 Afghans outside the U.S. are in various stages of the application process, and this includes many who worked with the Americans. These figures are from U.S.

officials and private groups assisting Afghans. Many of these Afghans say they fear for their safety under Taliban rule in their country. Greg Myrie, NPR News, Washington. A three-judge appeals panel today rejected Apple's request to pause an April 30th order banning the company from charging a fee on in-app iPhone transactions processed outside its once-exclusive payment system. The setback threatens to divert billions of dollars in revenue away from Apple while it tries to overturn the order reigning in its commissions from e-commerce with iPhone apps.

Apple wanted to put the order on hold shortly after it was issued as part of a stinging rebuke that also held the company in civil contempt of court. It marked the latest twist in a long-running legal battle with Epic Games. I'm Janene Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. It marked the latest twist in a long-running legal battle with Epic Games. I'm Janene Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.