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These days there is a lot of news. It could be hard to keep up with what it means for you, your family, and your community. Consider This from NPR is a podcast that helps you make sense of the news. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a story and provide the context, the backstory, and analysis you need to understand our rapidly changing world. Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Listen to the Consider This Podcast from NPR. Dave Mattingly Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly. The feud between President Trump and Elon Musk is escalating less than a week after the billionaire left his role overseeing the president's Department of Government efficiency.

Musk has been critical of the massive Republican tax and spending cut bill backed by Trump and passed by the House, calling it an abomination that will explode federal deficits. Now on social media, Musk says Trump would have lost the election last year without his support and calls Trump ungrateful. The president is suggesting federal contracts and subsidies involving Musk's businesses be canceled to save the government billions of dollars. Shares of Tesla dropped sharply yesterday after the public back and forth

between Trump and Elon Musk. It closed off more than 14%. As NPR's Kamila Domenosky reports, Tesla's total value fell by more than $100 billion in four hours. 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. 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. Camila Dominovski, NPR News. The Labor Department's latest numbers on employment in the U.S. are expected to reflect a slowdown in hiring during the month of May. They're due out this morning. The Trump administration

says a Guatemalan man who was in the U.S. without legal status and wrongly deported has been returned. As NPR's Jimena Bustillo reports, this is a first for the administration. The man known as O.C.G. in court records entered the country illegally last year. An immigration judge decided that he would face harm if he were sent back to Guatemala, so he was issued a protection from being deported there. But just days later, immigration officials put OCG on a bus to Mexico, and Mexico then removed him to Guatemala.

A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered that OCG should not have been removed to any other country without additional legal steps, and he ordered he must be returned. The courts have also blocked third country deportations to Libya and South Sudan. The administration has been trying to send people to other countries if their home country exercises its sovereign right to refuse deportation flights. Ximena Bustillo and PR News, Washington. Russia and Ukraine have launched more attacks

at each other overnight. Several deaths and more than a dozen injuries are reported in Kiev after Russian forces sent missiles and drones into six regions of Ukraine. The Ukrainian military says many were shot down. Ukraine says it struck Russian airfields and fuel tanks in at least two regions. This is NPR News from Washington. Researchers say they've discovered seasonal patterns surrounding divorce filings, something divorce lawyers have noticed for years. Here's NPR's Vanessa Romo. Kirk Stangy is a family law attorney with 25 years in the business.

Over that time, he's noticed that divorce filings hit two peaks per year. Our business really picks up in the springtime, then it tends to pick up August, September-ish. The slow seasons, he says, especially December and January, then again in June and July, can mean a drop of about 50% in divorce filings. We could spend money advertising and try to do things, but it just doesn't work.

A 2016 study from the University of Washington that analyzed divorce filing data also found consistent peaks in March and August. The study's author says couples likely put off legal steps because they're caught in a cycle of optimism tied to domestic rituals. And that keeps people hanging on for just a little bit longer before they finally make things official.

Vanessa Romo, NPR News. The Indiana Pacers came from behind last night to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game One of the NBA Finals. Tyrese Halliburton hit a two-point jumper with three-tenths of a second remaining in the game to complete the rally for Indiana. The winning shot was the Pacers' only lead of the game. At one point, Indiana trailed the Thunder by 15 points in the fourth quarter. Game Two is Sunday, again in Oklahoma City.

Wall Street is coming off a down day for stocks. The Dow lost 108 points yesterday. Stock futures are higher this morning ahead of today's employment report. I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.