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Today's Thursday, May 7th. Here's what we're covering.
Paint me a picture of how you manage school calls since the war in the spike in prices.
“I mean, I was saying well below three dollars, and then let me see within a week, a week,”
it jumped up again there dollar. Across the U.S. gas prices keep ticking up, but the weight of that burden is not hitting everyone equally. I mean, it's rough. I mean, gas was the one thing that wasn't that expensive. According to an analysis released by the New York Fed, lower-income Americans are feeling the worst of it. My colleague, Tom and Joseph Smith, talked with a woman in her mid-40s who drives for Uber and Lyft in Charleston, South Carolina.
She said the jump in gas prices has eroded her take home pay. In general, the analysis found, lower-income households are spending a lot more on gas than usual, even as they're cutting back on how much they're buying. They may be driving less, carpooling, taking public transit if they can. Higher-income households, however, are buying the same amount of gases before, even with the surge in prices. It's a sign
their behavior has largely been unaffected. The data shows the spike in fuel costs is essentially inflaming the economic divide in the U.S., and perpetuating the K-shaped state of the economy, where those on top keep thriving while those at the bottom slide in comparison.
“Meanwhile, we're in a high-quality skirmish because that's what it is. It's a skirmish.”
Over the last day, updates on the state of the war and a potential peace deal have been contradictory and rapidly changing. Yesterday in the Oval Office, President Trump said, "I think we won and that talks were going well." They want to make a deal. We've had very good talks over the last 24 hours and it's very possible that we'll make a deal. But the President also issued a new threat on social media, writing that if Iran doesn't
agree, "the bombing starts," and it will be sadly at a much higher level and intensity than it was before. For its part, Iran has given conflicting responses to. Yesterday, one Iranian official dismissed a reported proposal to end the war as a list of American wishes. But later another official, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, said his government, "was reviewing an American plan and would let mediators from Pakistan know its position."
In the West Bank, experts say that extremist Israeli settlers are using the U.S. Israeli war with Iran as a chance to intensify attacks on Palestinians. Essentially, with the world distracted, they've been ramping up a campaign of violence against residents there. In one West Bank village, a Palestinian man described seeing his son fatally shot in a settler attack before he himself was stabbed and beaten unconscious. In another village, masked men sexually
assaulted a shepherd and brutalized his extended family, including children. All told 13 Palestinians
were killed in attacks in the first two months of the war, almost as many as all of last year
according to the United Nations. Many more were injured and more than 600 have been driven from their homes. The campaign of violence and intimidation is emptying out entire villages and leaving many Palestinians afraid of what will happen each night when it gets dark. One Palestinian woman told the times she feels like no one is protecting them and, quote, "We are on our own." The Israeli military is supposed to maintain order in the West Bank, but several commanders told
the times they struggle to get their troops to take action in some cases because the soldiers sympathize with the settlers. When it comes to investigating the attacks, that falls on the Israeli police. They say they've made several arrests, but times reporting has shown they've long failed to bring settlers to justice. The police also denied that there's been a surge in attacks. Israel's right-wing government, which has overseen a record expansion of West Bank settlements,
Has also minimized the violence.
has downplayed settler attacks as just the work of, quote, "a handful of kids."
“And when those early days were rough, did you just keep the faith? Did you always think”
that would make it? Well, I know it was going to be a hit from the fault when I'm the air. The media mogul Ted Turner, who changed the way the world consumes the news
when he launched CNN, has died at 87. He's considered one of the first ever celebrity CEOs.
He built up a vast empire with not just news, but TNT, TBS, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network. Turner got his start as a teenager painting billboards for his father's advertising company in Georgia. And later, as a businessman, he developed a reputation for being brush, self-aggrandizing, and taking astounding risks, going into debt to buy his first TV station, as well as the Atlanta Braves, and the entire catalog of classic MGM movies. And some of those
bets paid off big. He was the kind of person who just went big for everything, telling a journalist
“at one point he wanted his legacy to be on par with that of Alexander the Great Napoleon, Gandhi.”
In an extraordinary act of philanthropy, he donated more than a billion dollars to the United
Nations, but he also drew backlash over the years for using ethnic and racial slurs, and he developed a reputation for controversy. At one point, befriending Fidel Castro, reportedly saying, "He's like me, a dictator, the most significant piece of his legacy, though, dates back to 1980." "Where do you come in three, one center of? Good evening, I'm David Walker."
"And I'm Lewis Hart, now here's the news." That's when he launched his signature creation, the cable news network, or CNN. "In some sense, we are all living in Ted Turner's world." My colleague Jim Routenberg, who's covered the media for more than two decades, says many people thought Turner's idea was crazy. "When Ted Turner comes along in 1980 to start CNN, the news is primarily delivered by three anchorman on three networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
They are on the air for 30 minutes and night. That was your big dose of news."
“Ted Turner said, "I think people will watch for longer. In fact, I think they will watch”
for 24 hours." That was a revolutionary thought. "You know, sometime after we started,
I could see we're going to be a big boiler." Those days when people were making fun of it, kidding it, CBS wanted to buy you all my life, people cared about me, and he was vindicated. He drew huge audiences. CNN was everywhere in very short order, in every sports bar, in every corporate office, in every airport, in hotels and finally homes around the world. The idea that there's a bottomless 24-hour appetite for news and
information is foundational to the entire development of media ever since, to the establishment of social media, to the establishment of streaming, to the establishment of all these many podcasts that we have today. There's no end to the appetite, and it's Ted Turner who makes that realization. And finally, America has been undergoing a great, undamined, according to the non-profit group, American rivers. Last year, more miles of the country's waterways were reconnected thanks to
dam removals than at any other time in history. That involved removing more than a hundred dams in 30 states, and reconnecting almost 5,000 miles of waterways. The country is scattered with tens of thousands of dams that have been built for all kinds of purposes, both practical, to generate power or irrigate farms, and recreational for fishing or swimming. But many are increasingly obsolete, making them a liability for people and the environment. One dam expert told the times
that in many places there's been bipartisan support for tackling the issue. When dams are removed, the resulting free flowing waterways are healthier, cooler, and serve as a vital habitat for fish. Advocates for removing more dams say it's best to do it intentionally, with a plan, especially as dams get older and older. One told the times quote, "With more extreme weather, more and more of these structures are failing over time. If we don't remove them,
Mother Nature is going to do it for us." Those are the headlines. Today on the daily, how spirit changed air travel and how the airline ultimately unraveled. You can listen to that in the New York Times app or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Tracy Mumpford, we'll be back tomorrow with the latest and the Friday news quiz.
