The Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Wednesday, April 29th.

Here's what we're covering.

Today is the last day of arguments this

term at the Supreme Court, and the

justices are set to consider a pair of

cases that they fast-tracked to get on

the schedule.

The cases both center on temporary

protected status, or TPS, a decades-old

legal protection that has allowed

migrants from countries facing war or

other humanitarian crises to live and

work in the US.

President Trump, though, has moved to

revoke those protections immediately for

hundreds of thousands of Haitians and

Syrians, and to expel them from the

country.

TPS holders, including students,

doctors, and engineers, have pushed back

in the courts, saying they could be

killed if they're forced to return.

The arguments the justices will hear

today will focus on how and why the

administration tried to revoke their

status.

By law, the government must review

conditions in the countries in question

before making a decision, among other

steps. Lawyers representing the TPS

holders say that didn't happen here, and

they argue that in the case of the

Haitians, specifically, the

administration acted with racial bias.

They've pointed to Trump's false

accusations about Haitians eating

people's pets and being undesirable

because they come from what Trump called

a filthy, disgusting country.

On the administration's part, it has

denied that race is a factor, and said

the terminations are based on foreign

policy and national security

considerations.

The justices' ruling will likely also

have implications for more than a

million other TPS holders from other

countries, whose protections the

administration is also trying to

terminate.

to Elon Musk. He pitched an idea, a

Silicon Valley research lab that would

build powerful AI systems as part of

what he called some sort of nonprofit.

Soon, that nonprofit was founded,

largely with donations from Musk. It was

called OpenAI, and would go on to lead

the tech industry into a new era of

artificial intelligence.

But over the course of the next decade,

that relationship fractured. Musk quit

OpenAI, and he and Altman went from

being collaborators to competitors.

Now, their simmering feud has come to a

head with Musk suing Altman in a

blockbuster trial that kicked off this

week. People in Silicon Valley are

expecting high drama. But the

implications of this trial are much

larger than that. Cade Metz has been

reporting for The Times from the

California courthouse where Musk's

testimony is expected to continue this

morning, and where Altman is also slated

to take the stand. Cade says Musk is

claiming that Altman took his money,

deceived him, and abandoned OpenAI's

original humanitarian mission, instead

building the company into a roughly $700

billion tech juggernaut. In opening

arguments yesterday, OpenAI's lawyers

said those claims are basically all

just, quote, "sour grapes," as they

worked to convince the jury not to take

Musk's side. If Elon Musk wins his case,

it could shift the balance of power in

the AI race.

Musk seeks tens of billions of dollars

in damages, but he also wants to

OpenAI.

He wants to remove Sam Altman from the

OpenAI board of directors,

and he wants to unravel the company that

oversees ChatGPT

and so many other AI technologies.

And in the end, that benefits the

company's many rivals, including

xAI, the artificial intelligence company

run by Elon Musk.

several high-stakes cases the court took

on in its last week of the term. We'll

hear argument next in case 24-1068,

Monsanto Company versus Darnell. One

case earlier this week involved the weed

killer Roundup. There have been

widespread claims that the product

causes cancer, and ultimately,

the court's decision could determine

whether thousands of lawsuits against

the company that makes it can go

forward.

And What's to prevent the government

from using this to find out the

identities of everybody at a particular

church, a particular political

organization?

The court also grappled this week with

the issue of just how much personal cell

phone data police can sweep up in an

investigation.

Some authorities have been using a

technique called geofencing,

which lets them gather location data

from all cell phone users near a crime

scene.

That's helped them track down suspects,

but critics of the practice argue that

it's unconstitutional and puts the

privacy of everyday Americans at risk.

Decisions from the court on all of these

cases, as well as other critical issues

like birthright citizenship and the

Voting Rights Act, are expected starting

in late June.

Now, two other updates from Washington.

You know how sometimes, uh, you wake up

in the morning and, uh, the first lady

puts out a statement demanding you be

fired from your job?

We've all been there, right? As the feud

between Jimmy Kimmel and the White House

has kicked back up recently, federal

regulators have ordered an unprecedented

review of ABC's broadcast licenses. Back

in the fall, Kimmel was briefly pulled

off the air by ABC, his home network,

after the Trump administration

criticized comments he'd made in the

wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination.

This past week, Kimmel drew the White

House's anger again after he joked that

First Lady Melania Trump had the glow of

a quote, "expectant widow." Just days

before an alleged assassination attempt

at the White House Correspondents

Dinner.

Now, the Federal Communications

Commission says it's reviewing all of

ABC's broadcast licenses, not because of

the joke, but as part of what it says is

an investigation into the network's DEI

policies.

The move all but guarantees a drawn-out

legal battle that will lock ABC in an

expensive running war with the federal

government.

And Well, they're back.

This time about a picture of seashells

on a North Carolina beach a year ago.

James Comey, the former director of the

FBI and frequent critic of President

Trump, has been indicted again.

Trump has been openly calling for the

Justice Department to prosecute people

he sees as his political enemies, like

Comey.

In the fall,

DOJ lawyers brought their first case

against him, though a judge dismissed

it. In the new indictment,

they're claiming that a picture Comey

posted online was a threat on the

president's life. It showed shells

arranged to say 8647.

86 being slang to get rid of something,

and 47 being a reference to Trump, the

47th president. The indictment claims a

reasonable person would interpret the

message, quote, "as a serious expression

of intent to do harm."

In a video released yesterday, Comey

vowed to fight the charges. I'm still

innocent. I'm still not afraid. And I

still believe in the independent federal

judiciary, so let's go.

And finally, in Japan, there is a

problem. Like in many countries, they're

short on nursing home staff to take care

of their aging population. But there's

also a potential solution that involves,

hear me out here, bodybuilders. I

visited a few centers in Japan, and it

was a really heartwarming scene. There

were these young bodybuilders, and they

were in their tank tops showing off

their muscles to this crowd of elderly

patients.

And they really brought a lot of joy and

excitement to the centers. You know, the

residents were smiling, they were like

punching their muscles and doing

exercises with them. Javier Hernandez is

The Times' Tokyo bureau chief. He says a

number of Japanese companies are

specifically trying to recruit not just

bodybuilders, but also MMA fighters and

sumo wrestlers to work in senior care

facilities. They're offering them, in

some cases, housing, plus gym

memberships, and even protein

supplements. It's a bit unconventional,

but it actually makes sense. A lot of

these athletes are looking for work.

They have shorter careers. Once they get

older, they don't have the opportunity

to win contests or enter any kind of

event, so they're struggling often for

jobs.

But in the care industry, there's

actually a huge demand for this kind of

skill set. They are physically strong,

they have stamina, they can work with

people, and so these jobs, in many ways,

make sense for elite athletes. Javier

says the recruiting push is also about

helping to change perceptions around who

is a caregiver. The field is often

dominated by women, and Japan is no

exception to that. One staffer who has

helped recruit men who are MMA athletes

said, quote, "There's a lot of

testosterone in the room, but when it

comes to taking care of the elderly, the

fighters are very tender and

very caring."