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On NPR's ThruLine, witnesses were ending up dead. How the hunt for gangster Al Capone launched the IRS to power. Find NPR's ThruLine wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. The Labor Department says U.S. employers created 139,000 jobs last month. That's a little more than analysts were forecasting. The May report suggests there hasn't been significant harm to the labor market from federal government layoffs or President Trump's tariffs.

Shares of automaker Tesla are bouncing back this morning in pre-market trading. They dropped sharply yesterday after the public back and forth between Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. Tesla's shares closed down more than 14 percent yesterday. As MPS Camilla and Domenoski 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.

Trump said he was disappointed in Musk. Musk accused Trump of ingratitude. Trump threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk's companies. Tesla stock saw one of its largest single-day drops in years. Camila Dominovski, NPR News. The Trump administration says a Guatemalan man who was in the US without legal status and wrongly deported has been returned. As NPR's Jimena Bastille reports, this is a first for the Trump administration. The man known as OCG 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 O.C.G. on a bus to Mexico, and Mexico then removed him to Guatemala. A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered that O.C 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, MPR News, Washington. The Federal Aviation Administration says it will likely suspend passenger flights near Washington D.C. during President Trump's Army anniversary parade. NPR's Joel Rose has more. Ronald Reagan, Washington National Airport, says the FAA will likely suspend airline operations to accommodate aircraft flyovers along the parade route and a fireworks display. The long-planned celebration to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army is scheduled for the evening of June 14, which is also President Trump's birthday.

It's expected to last for three hours. The FAA says all arrivals and departures at Reagan Airport in Northern Virginia will be suspended during the quote, peak of the celebration. The airport, located just a few miles from the parade route on the National Mall, was the scene of a deadly midair collision between a military helicopter and a passenger jet in January. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.

A group of several Democratic attorneys general will be in federal court in Boston this morning. They're challenging President Trump's executive order on voting. Trump is seeking changes, including proof of citizenship, to vote in federal elections. And Trump wants to force states to stop counting mailed ballots that are postmarked by the election but arrive after election day is over. The Democratic attorneys general say that President Trump's order violates federal law. They also say voting matters are decided by states and by Congress, not by a president. Researchers say they've discovered seasonal patterns surrounding divorce filings.

Vanessa Romo explains it's something divorce lawyers have noticed for years. Kirk Stange 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, and 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. And I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News from Washington. Hey everybody. It's Ian from How To Do Everything.

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