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From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News.

Good evening, I'm John Dickerson. I'm Maurice Dubois. It always seemed just a matter of time before the alliance between the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world would come to an end. And if you had June 5th in the pool, you nailed it. This is the day Donald Trump and Elon Musk finally went from bosom buddies to family feud. And it got ugly quickly. The president said Musk had gone crazy. And when someone tweeted that Mr. Trump should be impeached,

Musk replied, "Yes." Musk endorsed the president for reelection last July 13th, right after Mr. Trump had been shot and went to work for him after the inauguration. When Musk left the White House last week, the president gave him a gold key. Now he appears ready to change the locks. So what went wrong? Nancy Cordes is at the White House.

John, this fight has now gone galactic with President Trump threatening to yank billions in government contracts from the Elon Musk company SpaceX. And Musk is saying that in response he's going to decommission the Dragon spacecraft which is used to transport astronauts to the International Space Station.

I'm very disappointed in Elon. I've helped Elon a lot. He was sitting alongside the German chancellor, but President Trump had a lot more to say today about billionaire Elon Musk, who has been bashing Trump's signature bill all week. He knew every aspect of this bill. He knew it better than almost anybody, and he never had a problem until...

right after he left. False. This bill was never shown to me even once, Musk spat back as he rebutted his former boss in real time with a flurry of posts on his social media site, X. Bankrupting America is not okay, he wrote. Kill the bill. It goes to very special people. The very public falling out comes just six days after Trump handed Musk a key to the White House.

and four months after the two declared their bond unbreakable. I love the president. I just want to be clear about that. I don't care about that. I know. I love the president. I wanted to find somebody smarter than him. I searched all over.

I just couldn't do it. But Musk, who Trump hired to cut spending, has been railing against what he calls the big ugly bill. It's estimated that the bill's mix of tax cuts, Medicaid cuts and border security measures will add $2.4 trillion to the federal deficit.

And Musk isn't the only conservative who wants changes. My response to Mr. Musk is that, you know, I feel your pain. Elon's, I think, saying things that a lot of the American people feel. It's like, what are you doing? The bill is incredible. But Trump suggested today that Musk, whose last day was Friday, is just having separation anxiety. People leave my administration and they love us.

And then at some point they miss it so badly and some of them actually become hostile. I don't know what it is. It's sort of Trump derangement syndrome, I guess they call it. Such ingratitude, Musk responded. Without me, Trump would have lost the election.

The spat went beyond policy and into the personal when, without presenting evidence, Musk posted this about the president and the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted child sex offender. "Time to drop the really big bomb. Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason," he said, "that they have not been made public." And so far, Trump has not responded to that accusation. But, Nancy, what is the fallout expected to be here?

Well, Maurice, Musk is already warning Republicans tonight that he's going to be around long after Trump leaves office and that he could use his massive war chest against anyone who disagrees with him. And if Trump really does decide to cancel SpaceX contracts, that is going to have a major impact not only on the company, but on the U.S. space program as well. And Nancy, where does this leave the bill that started all this?

John, all the attention is causing more and more conservatives on the Hill to say they need to add more spending cuts to the bill. But the problem is if they try to cut Medicaid even deeper, that could end up turning off moderate Republicans. So the president had been urging them to just try to pass this bill without making any changes, but that is looking less and less likely.

Nancy Cordes at the White House. Thanks, Nancy. Now, more of the top stories from around the world in the evening news roundup and another notable moment from the Oval Office meeting with the new chancellor of Germany. President Trump compared the war between Russia and Ukraine to a schoolyard brawl and suggested it might be better to let the fighting continue before pursuing peace.

Israel says it recovered the bodies of an Israeli-American couple, Judy Weinstein Haggai and Gad Haggai, in Gaza. Israel says they were killed by Hamas in the October 7th attack. Hamas is still holding 56 hostages.

about 20 are believed to be alive. Federal investigators say it now appears maintenance mistakes may have led to an engine fire on an American Airlines jet in Denver back in March. They found a part of a fractured fan blade, and they say other parts were not properly installed.

The report also says an evacuation slide jammed and did not deploy. Twelve passengers were injured. And the Supreme Court today made it easier to claim reverse discrimination at work. The case involves Marlene Ames, who sued the state of Ohio for discrimination after she was passed over for promotion and then demoted. They put a 25-year-old man with less than three years of service...

in our agency to do my job that I had successfully done for over five years. That amounted to discrimination because you believe he got the job because he was gay and you're straight. Correct. Lower courts threw out her lawsuit, but the Supreme Court today said she should have her day in court. Jan Crawford is at the Supreme Court. Jan, what did the court actually say?

Well, John, you know, those lower courts had said Marlene Ames and other people in majority groups, white people, straight people, they had to jump through an extra hoop, show more evidence than people in minority groups. And in a unanimous 9-0 ruling by Justice Katonji Brown Jackson, the court said federal law doesn't require that, that discrimination essentially is discrimination, whether you're black or white, gay or straight. And, Jen, what is the impact expected to be?

Well, now Marlene Ames will be able to have her day in court and try to prove her case. But it goes well beyond Marlene Ames. This will change rules that courts follow in 20 other states and the District of Columbia. They also had that additional requirement.

Jan Crawford at the Supreme Court. Thank you, Jan. Presidents Trump and Xi had a 90-minute phone call today about their ongoing trade dispute. Mr. Trump said it was a good conversation, and the Chinese leader said he hoped it could lead to a win-win solution for the United States and China. In the meantime, China has restricted exports of rare earth elements needed by American industry. Jason Allen looks at efforts to make the U.S. less dependent on China for those elements.

Buried in this mountain, in a remote part of West Texas, are the metals that could power America's future. They're called rare earths, a group of 17 elements used in many of the world's most advanced technologies, including semiconductors, electric cars, and guided missiles used by the military. Those minerals then have to be turned into magnets. And to see that happen, you almost have to go to China. They produce as much as 95% of the world's rare earth magnets.

But there is a company in Oklahoma that is trying to change that. How far behind are we right now? Oh, I'd say we're a good 10, 15 years behind. Joshua Ballard is the CEO of USA Rare Earth, a company trying to bring this critical supply chain back to the U.S. Inside this warehouse, they're rushing to assemble massive machines that will eventually produce up to 5,000 tons of magnets, about 10% of U.S. demand.

Why is it important to have a domestic supply? So right now, we have to ask permission from China in order to get the magnets and minerals we need for our defense technologies. I mean, this is an incredible choke point for this country. They showed us this small-scale lab that's already showcasing what's possible. Engineers there are refining the volatile metals, cooking and compressing them into tiny but powerful magnets. They don't look like much, but you grab one.

And you try to just pull them apart and you realize how powerful they really are.

I cannot get this apart. When you think about all these new technologies, whether it's in your phone, there's probably 12 magnets if you have an iPhone, a car, there's up to 40 magnets in a car. And the strength of them allows you to create smaller technologies with the power of the magnet. And while companies like USA Rare Earth will eventually help lessen our dependence on China, Ballard says that's still a long way off.

That was Jason Allen reporting from Stillwater, Oklahoma. And Jason tells us the company will have all the equipment it needs to mass produce those magnets by early next year. Still ahead on the CBS Evening News, Lonnie Quinn on the risk of severe weather in the South Central United States. Also tonight as the president brings back a travel ban, we'll look at the plight of women in one of the countries affected. And Eye on America.

I'm Janet Chamblee in Marfa, Texas. Local newspapers across the country are struggling, but here in Marfa, one publication has figured it out.

President Trump is bringing back the concept of a travel ban from his first term. This time, the ban will apply to 12 countries. Travel from seven others will be restricted. Mr. Trump said this is designed to prevent those he calls dangerous actors from coming here and causing harm. He cited the Boulder firebomb attack

But the suspect there is Egyptian and Egypt is not covered by the ban. Afghanistan is, however. MTS Tayeb has been following the plight of women there and has a follow-up tonight. Dr. Najma Sama Shafijo is Afghanistan's best-known and most experienced OBGYNs. She became a household name from her regular appearances on Afghan TV channels

where she talked openly about women's reproductive health, a subject still considered taboo. Over the past decade, we have made several visits to her private clinic in central Kabul and have never seen it this busy. Her clinic was flooded with new patients after the Taliban banned women from nursing and midwife training courses back in December.

And it started to take its toll. You have been suffering from migraines for quite some time. Why do you think that is? Because of tension. I see my patients very poor. They cannot pay. I cannot help them. And all the pressure comes on me and I get headache.

Dr. Shafijoh has also remained a committed teacher and has found a way to get around the Taliban's education ban for her student nurses and midwives. She gave them all jobs at the clinic, which means they're technically no longer students but employees, even as she continues to train them. The previous doctors, midwife nurses are getting older and older and they will die.

Who will provide services? So you're expecting a catastrophe. For sure the number of deaths will be increasing. And one day there will not be

female in Afghanistan. An Afghanistan without women. The Taliban insists that's not what its policies are aimed at. In the courtyard outside the clinic, we tried to ask some of the husbands, fathers and guardians what they thought about the Taliban's ban on maternal health education for women. Obviously it's difficult to talk about these things. But no one wanted to talk. What is your message to the Taliban? As a doctor,

As a mother, as a woman, as a Muslim, I request them to give chance for the female to help you to build the country.

MTS High reporting from Afghanistan to build the country with a future. Right? Profile encouraged. A, to do the work, and B, to talk about it so publicly. Just wow. Absolutely. Great. Now to our weather and the risk of severe weather in parts of Texas. Lonnie Quinn tells us it could include hail the size of baseballs. Lonnie?

Yeah, that is something. I mean, think about car dealerships. They hate hail more than anything else, right? That situation in Texas continues into the nighttime hours, but I'm showing you right now the situation in Chicago. Some of the worst air quality anywhere in the world, and there's a unique setup.

up for Chicago and why it is this bad. I want to go over to the map on the floor. I'm going to put my foot right here. That's basically where Chicago is, on the shores of Lake Michigan. So think of the dynamics. That fire is burning to the north, generating a lot of heat. That air flowing from the north to the south, it has to cross right over Lake Michigan. Well, Lake Michigan is a pool of cold water. That air is cold. So you have a layer of cold air at the surface. You have warm air up above it. That

goes against mother nature. You should get colder as you go up in the atmosphere when you get an inversion layer. What that means is there's no mixing in between. It's like taking a jar and screwing the top on, and that layer just stays in place, and you have what you see right here. The good news is the winds will shift a bit,

tomorrow, but the fires are not going anywhere. So smoke will be a consideration in Chicago for a number of days to come until we get those fires under control, but it won't be as bad tomorrow. Gentlemen? Folks are saying enough already. Lonnie Quinn, thank you. Still ahead, caffeine-powered journalism. How coffee saved a newspaper. Eye on America is next.

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- These are tough times for newspapers, the few we have left. Long gone are the days when advertising, subscriptions and street sales were enough to keep them going. Now it takes thinking outside the box. Janet Chamblee has tonight's Eye on America.

If it's morning in Marfa, Texas, this is the place to be. It's called The Sentinel, a local cafe where there's hot coffee. And oversized breakfast tacos. Business is booming. It's one of the best places in town to come. But it's more than just money they're printing here.

Tucked away in a small corner of the Sentinel is the business for which it's named, the Big Bend Sentinel. Like, I think this could be a really good front page photo. The area's weekly newspaper keeping watch over this part of West Texas for 99 years. I think we can cut this in half. Oh, for sure. Maisie Crowe and Max Cabot moved to Marfa from New York City in search of community.

Then in 2019, the paper's owners approached them about buying it. And you never thought you would own the paper previous to their reaching out? No. No. We never considered owning the paper. A newspaper found us. We didn't go and search out to find the newspaper.

Maisie is a documentary filmmaker who worked in local news. The couple knew it would be tough to keep the paper afloat without another source of revenue. That's when they became unlikely restaurateurs. Small local newspapers

are closing, folding, filing for bankruptcy, and you thought, "We can make this work"? We saw an opportunity to engage in the community in a deeper way than we had been. But we also recognized very quickly that we would need to subsidize the newspaper in some sort of way. What percent of revenue is the newspaper versus everything else? Look, I don't think it would surprise anyone that the large majority of the revenue is

the coffee shop, the restaurant, the home goods that we sell. From just four employees, the newspaper workers, there are now close to 20 across the business, one of Marfa's biggest employers. While the city of about 2,000 is a tourist destination, all local news. It's locals like County Attorney Blair Park who rely on and support the Sentinel. Why is the Sentinel important? Well, the other news outlets don't

You know, they're not really concerned about what's going on in Marfa. So if it wasn't for this newspaper, we wouldn't be seeing our local community news anywhere. Do you ever read about yourself? All the time. A menu offering more than restaurant fare. How y'all doing? Serving scoops to a town hungry for local news. For Eye on America, I'm Janet Shamlian in Marfa, Texas.

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It's not a search for an escaped inmate, but the target of this dragnet is wearing stripes. The owner of the zebra actually called me. He's a friend of mine. He has three of them.

Three of them? He has three zebras. While Gus Puga was getting a haircut, he gave us the scoop on his friend's pet zebra. It got loose over the weekend and has been on the run ever since, more than 8,000 miles from the savanna in southern Africa. The zebra's been hoofing it through 70-mile-an-hour traffic in a woodsy part of this highway.

A zebra's top speed is 40 miles an hour. Maybe that's why we just missed him out here. But two miles away, another camera caught what we couldn't. The zebra sashaying along a suburban street. This is the photo the sheriff's department put up, kind of like a wanted poster on social media. A full-color photo of a black and white fugitive. Dave Malkoff, CBS News, Christiana, Tennessee.

I thought he might be hiding in the crosswalk. You just wanted to see the place. That is the news from Ada Zebra. I'm John Dickerson. I'm Maurice Dubois. The news continues on Evening News Plus, streaming on CBS News 24-7. See you there. And we'll see you right back here tomorrow night. Have a good night.

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