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tracy mumford<\/p>\n
From \u201cThe New York Times,\u201d it\u2019s \u201cThe Headlines.\u201d I\u2019m Tracy Mumford. Today\u2019s Tuesday, May 5. Here\u2019s what we\u2019re covering.<\/p>\n
One day into President Trump\u2019s plan to get traffic moving through the Strait of Hormuz again, the US military says it\u2019s been shooting down cruise missiles and drones fired at commercial ships by Iran. And it has launched strikes of its own, sinking six Iranian speedboats. The new attacks have shaken the temporary truce. And they\u2019ve also added to the confusion and uncertainty for ships caught near the waterway.<\/p>\n
While the US is vowing to help tankers carrying everything from natural gas to fertilizer get out, it\u2019s unclear if the shipping companies will take the risk. One trade analyst told \u201cThe Times,\u201d a key reason cargo ships aren\u2019t going through yet is insurance costs. Even if a captain is willing to sail through the Strait, the ship\u2019s owners or the owners of its cargo could refuse.<\/p>\n
Shipping companies said Iran needs to be part of any plan to move a large number of ships through the waterway. According to the International Maritime Organization, around 1,600 vessels are currently trapped in the Gulf. Before the war, about 130 ships a day used to cross the Strait. Yesterday, according to one financial intelligence firm, four ships got through.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile \u2014<\/p>\n
treasury secretary scott bessent<\/p>\n
China, let\u2019s see them step up with some diplomacy and get the Iranians to open the Strait.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
\u2014 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on China to try and help get the Strait open.<\/p>\n
treasury secretary scott bessent<\/p>\n
I would urge the Chinese to join us in supporting this international operation.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
The country has continued to buy Iranian oil through the war, which has, in part, kept Iran\u2019s economy afloat. But the US has been applying pressure, warning China that it will go after entities involved in those oil sales, like refineries and financial institutions. So far, the Chinese government has avoided taking a strong position on the war.<\/p>\n
In Indiana today, voters will cast ballots in a state legislative primary. Usually, that\u2019s kind of a sleepy affair \u2014 down-ballot races without a lot of eyes on them. Not this time. Today will be a test of President Trump\u2019s power in the Republican Party. It stems from last year, when Trump urged red states to redraw their election maps to try and get the GOP more seats in Congress.<\/p>\n
Several followed suit, but not Indiana. In a rare instance of elected Republicans publicly defying the president, a critical mass of Indiana lawmakers said no to his redistricting effort. So Trump has primaried them.<\/p>\n
For months, he\u2019s been inviting challengers to the White House and putting out endorsements on social media. And tonight, seven Republican incumbents will be fighting to keep their seats against candidates that Trump backed over them. It will be one of several tests of the president\u2019s power this primary season.<\/p>\n
shane goldmacher<\/p>\n
When you look at a suite of races in May, these are a pretty remarkable set of primaries where President Trump has laid out one singular criteria, will you be loyal to him? And if you have crossed him before and not done his bidding, he wants you out. And he wants people in, some of whom he has personally recruited, who he believes once in office will vote lockstep with him into the future.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
\u201cTimes\u201d political correspondent Shane Goldmacher has more on what races to watch this primary season on today\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Daily.\u201d And \u201cThe Times,\u201d will have coverage of the Indiana results as they come in tonight.<\/p>\n
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In Washington \u2014<\/p>\n
health secretary robert f. kennedy, jr.<\/p>\n
The United States does not just face a mental health crisis. We face a dependency crisis, driven by overmedicalization.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
\u2014 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced a plan yesterday to rein in what he\u2019s called Americans\u2019 overuse of antidepressants.<\/p>\n
health secretary robert f. kennedy, jr.<\/p>\n
We will no longer treat them as the default. We will treat them as one option.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Kennedy has narrowed in specifically on SSRIs, the most widely prescribed class of antidepressants. That includes household names like Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac. The user base is huge. Roughly one in six Americans reported taking an SSRI this year.<\/p>\n
Kennedy acknowledged that patients can benefit from them. And he stressed that he wasn\u2019t telling anyone to just stop. But he argued that too many people start taking the meds without knowing how long they\u2019ll stay on them and with no plan to come off.<\/p>\n
He has singled out SSRIs before. He\u2019s previously claimed, without evidence, that they are partly responsible for the rise in school shootings and that they can be harder to quit than heroin \u2014 something he repeated yesterday. For his new effort, Kennedy announced several initiatives, like trainings and new guidelines to nudge clinicians to help patients get off medications and consider other treatment options, like therapy or exercise.<\/p>\n
No major medical organizations were represented at yesterday\u2019s event. And my colleague, Ellen Barry, who covers mental health, has been speaking with psychiatrists and other experts in the field about Kennedy\u2019s new push.<\/p>\n
ellen barry<\/p>\n
I think there\u2019s sort of two issues here. One is the kind of technical and structural question of what do people need to get off cocktails of psychiatric medications they\u2019ve been on for a long time. And I think sort of genuinely, you hear from people inside the profession that they could absolutely do better on this.<\/p>\n
At the same time, I hear some concern about the overall statement that we overuse psychiatric medication. And the concern I hear from psychiatrists is that this conversation could end up sort of undermining confidence in an entire system of care. Some of these psychiatric meds are used by tens of millions of Americans. They are the first-line treatments, in many cases, for anxiety and depression, very common disorders. And there\u2019s concern about undermining confidence in them.<\/p>\n
[REFLECTIVE MUSIC]<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Health authorities are continuing to look into a possible hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Three passengers have died after showing symptoms of the rare disease. And three others are sick.<\/p>\n
The ship, which had been heading from Argentina to the Canary Islands, is currently anchored off the Coast of Cape Verde in West Africa, but passengers have not been given permission to disembark. Hantavirus is typically contracted when people come into contact with infected rodents or their droppings. Early symptoms can be like the flu.<\/p>\n
In severe instances, it can progress into lung or heart failure. It\u2019s rare for the disease to spread among people. A regional director for the World Health Organization said yesterday that the risk to the wider public remains low, saying, quote, \u201cThere is no need for panic or travel restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n
[WISTFUL MUSIC]<\/p>\n
And finally \u2014<\/p>\n
speaker 1<\/p>\n
The feathers, the diamonds, the headpiece.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
\u2014 the Met Gala is often billed as the world\u2019s most exclusive party.<\/p>\n
speaker 2<\/p>\n
[GASPS] Can you just look at the detailing in that dress?<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
And last night, it brought what has become its trademark mix of high fashion and heated controversy. The event, which raised a record amount of money for the museum\u2019s Costume Institute, was filled with sometimes eye-popping looks. Bad Bunny, for example, shocked people by showing up looking old, wrinkled and gray, thanks to heavy costume makeup that, he joked, took 53 years to put on.<\/p>\n
Before the night got started, though, protesters had been calling out the event as a glaring symbol of wealth inequality. The Gala\u2019s lead sponsors this year were Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos, which sparked a lot of backlash. One activist group went as far as putting bottles of fake urine around the museum, a reference to reports from some Amazon workers that they\u2019re not even given time for bathroom breaks. The group also projected giant slogans on buildings near Bezos\u2019s New York penthouse, including, if you can buy the Met Gala, you can pay more taxes.<\/p>\n
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Those are \u201cThe Headlines.\u201d I\u2019m Tracy Mumford. We\u2019ll be back tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,4671,9,24,63,4672,35553,62208],"class_list":["post-220698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-kennedy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-robert-f-jr","tag-ships-and-shipping","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}