NPR News: 05-02-2026 8PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone. President Trump says he's reviewing Iran's latest proposal to end the war there. The president was boarding Air Force One in Florida. When he told reporters on the runway, he planned he would review Iran's proposal on the flight, but on his truth social platform, the president said he was not optimistic. It would be acceptable. Meanwhile, the president has announced a drawdown of 14 percent of U.S. forces stationed in Germany. That's 5,000 troops. The change follows President Trump's complaints that NATO has not stepped up to help the U.S. in the war in Iran. And PR's Rob Schmitz has more on Germany's reaction. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called the Pentagon's move an expected one, adding that if Germany is to remain transatlantic, it must strengthen the European pillar within NATO. A spokesperson for NATO said it was working with the U.S. to understand the details of the troop withdrawal and that it underscored the need for Europe to invest more in defense. The Pentagon's announcement would still leave more than 30,000 U.S. troops in Germany, reversing

1:04a build-up that began under President Joe Biden. Germany is undergoing an historic defense build-up and investment in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago. Rob Schmitz and Pair News, Berlin. The trial over open AI's future continues next week, pitting Elon Musk against the artificial intelligence company he helped start, and its CEO Sam Altman and PR's John Ruich has to tell. Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame says open AI lost its way. It was founded as a nonprofit to create AI for the benefit of humanity, but he argues that a for-profit arm designed to help raise money and attract talent as taken over. On the stand, during week one, Musk's testimony got heated at times. He said Sam Altman and fellow founder Greg Brockman quote, stole a charity and have enriched themselves. Open AI argues that Musk left after a power struggle and launched this case out of sour grapes. He's since gone on to start his own for-profit AI company which competes against open AI, and open AI lawyers say he even tried to poach its employees for Tesla while he was on

2:08the board. Altman is expected to testify in the coming days. John Ruich and Pair News, San Francisco. Spirit Airlines landed its final flight earlier today at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport from Detroit Metropolitan Airport after 34 years and multiple financial challenges. Spirit's bright yellow plans will no longer operate. And PR's Joel Rose reports fuel prices dealt the final blow. The whole industry has been dealing with a spike in the price of jet fuel since the beginning of the war in Iran, which has disrupted the supply of crude oil and jet fuel coming out of the Persian Gulf. That's driven up the price of jet fuel worldwide, even in the U.S., which is a net exporter of jet fuel. The price has nearly doubled in the past two months. That is putting pressure on all airlines, really, but in the case of Spirit, problems really ran much deeper than that. This is NPR News in Washington. It's a fashion-forward weekend at the nation's movie theaters, NPR's Bob Mondello reports. It's been two decades since Meryl Streep and Hathaway and Emily Blunt first strode

3:10down a cinema runway together. That audiences are embracing the Devil Weir's product, too, as if they've never been away. Do you change? Do you have? You're much more confident. Kepler's eyebrows, though, didn't you? The sequel appears headed for an $80 million weekend in North America, about three times the first film's opening, and it's doing even better overseas. That's not what you're wearing to the dinner. That's all. Also doing well globally, the Michael Jackson biopic Michael, which breezed past the $300 million mark earlier in the week, and will pass $400 million by Sunday, Bob Mondello NPR News. In Louisville, Kentucky late this afternoon, Golden Temple won the Kentucky Derby, making Sherry DeVoe the first woman to train the winner of the opening leg of the triple crown. DeVoe told NBC News interviewer right after her horse crossed the finish line. I'm glad that I could be a representative of all women everywhere that we can do anything

4:12we set our minds to. Golden Temple charged down the stretch to make history for DeVoe in the one-and-one eighth mile race. Renegade was second, long shot, Ocele III. DeVoe was just the second female trainer to win any triple crown race after Jenna Antonucci with Archangelo in the 2023 Belmont. She won the Derby in her first opportunity eight years after starting her own stable. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington. This week on Consider This, RFK Jr. has praised an Italian addiction program where people who use street drugs live in a network of government-run, farm, and work camps. Focus is abstinence. This is very hard to answer without getting angry. We know that abstinence-based programs fail over and over again. The Health Secretary's controversial vision for recovery this week on Consider This from NPR.