--:-- Tracy Mumford: From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Friday, October 4th.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Here's what we're covering. Offhand comments from President Biden yesterday caused waves in the financial markets and the Middle East.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: At the White House, reporters were pressing Biden for details about when and how Israel might retaliate against Iran for its recent missile strikes.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: One reporter asked Biden if he would support Israel hitting Iran's oil facilities, a move that would dramatically escalate the conflict.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: We're in discussion with that. I think that would be a little... Anyway.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Biden said, we're in discussion on that, then hesitated and stopped himself mid-sentence.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Even though it's far from certain that oil fields will be a target, there's so much concern about a wider war and so many unknowns that the tiny hint of information jolted the markets.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: and oil prices rose more than 4%.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Biden was then asked, quote, what are the plans to allow Israel to strike back against Iran?
--:-- Tracy Mumford: First of all, we don't allow Israel. We advise Israel, and there's nothing going to happen today. We'll talk about that later.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: His answer on the timing wasn't a surprise. It's been widely expected that Israel won't retaliate until after the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, which runs into tonight.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: But Biden's comments made headlines in Israel where people are hungry for any clarity at all amid the uncertainty.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Meanwhile, in Lebanon, there are signs that Israel may be intensifying the ground invasion that it started this week.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The Israeli military warned people in 20 more towns in southern Lebanon to leave their homes immediately.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: And overnight, Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on densely populated neighborhoods just south of Beirut.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The military said it was targeting an underground bunker where it believed senior Hezbollah leaders were meeting.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: It's the same area where Israel killed the group's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike last week.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Major U.S. ports along the east and Gulf coasts are starting to reopen today after the International Longshoremen's Association agreed to suspend its strike.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The strike which started on Tuesday brought some of the country busiest shipping terminals to a standstill and could have had widespread economic fallout
--:-- Tracy Mumford: More than half of container shipments into the U come through those ports and they can't function without longshoremen who load and unload the cargo.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The workers agreed to go back to work after being promised a 62% increase in wages over the course of the next six years, a much higher amount than they'd initially been offered.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: But there are still sticking points as they hammer out the rest of the contract, including concerns that automated machines could increasingly take the place of union jobs.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: In Memphis, Tennessee yesterday, a jury convicted three former police officers of witness tampering in the beating death of Tyree Nichols, though they were acquitted of the most serious federal charge against them, violating Nichols' civil rights by causing his death.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Nichols' death nearly two years ago prompted outrage across the country.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: He was pulled over as he was driving home from his job at FedEx.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Body cam footage showed officers giving a series of aggressive and conflicting commands before Nichols ran from them towards his mother's house.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: When they caught up, they viciously punched and kicked him, and then sat by for minutes before an ambulance was called.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Nichols and the officers involved were all Black.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The officers now face up to 20 years in prison.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Justice for Tyree Nichols. Justice for Tyree Nichols.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: At a press conference after the verdict, lawyers for the Nichols family said they were looking ahead to a state trial where all five officers who were involved in the violence faced second-degree murder charges.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Nichols' mother also spoke.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: This has been a long journey for our family.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: I'm actually in shock right now because I still can't believe all this stuff is going on.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: We're happy that they all have been convicted and they have been arrested.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The legalization of marijuana has been accelerating across the U.S., state after state.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Tens of millions of Americans now use marijuana medically or recreationally, and there's a multi-billion dollar commercial industry behind it.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: But a new investigation by The Times has found that as more people consume more cannabis more often a growing number of users are experiencing serious health concerns
--:-- Tracy Mumford: So my colleagues and I interviewed and surveyed hundreds of doctors and people who experienced harmful effects from the drug.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: And what we found is that the legalization and commercialization of marijuana has basically become something of an unintended public health experiment.
--:-- Megan Toohey: To be clear, most people who use marijuana don't have problems with it.
--:-- Megan Toohey: But doctors told us they're seeing more and more patients who are experiencing severe side effects.
--:-- Megan Toohey: We're hearing it from emergency doctors, from pediatricians, from psychiatrists.
--:-- Megan Toohey: And they're primarily seeing harm in people who are chronic users and in people who are using the most intoxicating products.
--:-- Megan Toohey: There are growing cases of marijuana causing severe nausea and vomiting.
--:-- Megan Toohey: This syndrome can be debilitating and lead to kidney failure, seizures, and even cardiac arrest.
--:-- Megan Toohey: And by one estimate, nearly a third of near-daily users of marijuana have this syndrome.
--:-- Megan Toohey: Marijuana is also causing temporary psychosis and is increasingly associated with the development of chronic psychotic disorders like schizophrenia.
--:-- Megan Toohey: And while it's widely thought that cannabis isn't addictive, we have data showing that an estimated 3 million Americans are addicted.
--:-- Megan Toohey: And we interviewed people whose lives were disrupted by it.
--:-- Megan Toohey: They couldn't eat, sleep, or otherwise function without the drug.
--:-- Megan Toohey: Users and doctors told us that they were caught by surprise by these health impacts.
--:-- Megan Toohey: And there are a few reasons for that.
--:-- Megan Toohey: States have rolled out inconsistent standards, regulations, and messaging.
--:-- Megan Toohey: And there's little science to inform marijuana users, in part because the drug is still illegal at the federal level and there are restrictions on research.
--:-- Megan Toohey: And the medical field is not adequately documenting harm.
--:-- Megan Toohey: For example, there no distinct diagnostic code for the syndrome with nausea and vomiting making it nearly impossible to track those cases
--:-- Megan Toohey: And because of all of this a lot of Americans are operating on dangerous misconceptions about marijuana
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Fashion Week has now come and gone through New York, Paris, and London.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: And the editors of Tea, the New York Times style magazine, cataloged the trends at over 200 catwalks.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: We try to see as much as humanly possible.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: You're trying to soak up as many details as you can.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: You're trying to understand who's in the room. Is Rihanna sitting in the front row?
--:-- Kate Lanphier: And ultimately, my job is to synthesize the patterns that I see.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: Now that all the shows are wrapped and complete, we're able to see what trends are actually emerging.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: And one of those was chintzy prints or florals you'd expect to see, kind of wallpaper curtains and ruffled bed skirts.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: Old world cottages. Picture a floral tablecloth your grandmother might have had. That's chintz.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: Other notable trends, accessories inspired by stuffed animals and childhood toys.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: Fringe, a lot of fringe.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: And we are living in the age of extreme belting, including jackets or dresses constructed entirely from belts.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: We see the trends and then it takes about six months for the clothes we just saw to reach stores.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: But it takes at least that long, if not longer, for them to really be adopted by the collective conscious where people will seek out these shapes or colors or silhouettes or hemlines.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: I'd predict that we'll see more longer, mid-length, fuller, voluminous skirts.
--:-- Kate Lanphier: It will just sort of move the needle on what kind of shape you might be shopping for or want to add into your wardrobe.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Those are the headlines.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Today on The Daily, the state of the presidential race, with three Times journalists covering the campaigns and the polls.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Listen next in the New York Times audio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: This show is made by Robert Jemison, Jessica Metzger, Jan Stewart, and me, Tracy Mumford, with help from Isabella Anderson.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Original theme by Dan Powell.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: Special thanks to Larissa Anderson, Zoe Murphy, Jake Lucas, Sean Paik, and Paula Schumann.
--:-- Tracy Mumford: The headlines will be back on Monday.
