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Good morning.
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US Talks with Iran go backwards after both sides reject each other's latest proposals.
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Democrats suffer a setback in the battle
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to redraw maps in time for the midterms.
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And inside, ROBERT F. KENNEDY jr. S plan to get people off antidepressants.
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The United States does not just face a mental health crisis. We face a dependency crisis driven by over medicalization.
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It's Monday, May 11th.
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I'm Gideon Resn. This is Apple News Today. Completely unacceptable.
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That's how President Trump described Iran's latest
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proposal to end the war.
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It creates another hurdle in negotiations and
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leaves the region in limbo.
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Axios reported that Iran initially rejected US
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proposals to end the war, issuing a response after 10 days. They cited unnamed officials who said it had focused on a suspension on Iranian nuclear enrichment, the lifting of sanctions and restoring free transit through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Instead, Iranian state media reported on the
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regime's own demands that included guarantees for ending the war permanently, compensation for war damage, and an emphasis on Iranian sovereignty over the strait.
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It's somewhat unclear where negotiations go now,
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only days after Trump said the war would be over. Very quickly.
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Speaking to ABC before Trump's rejection on
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Sunday, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz suggested the administration had favored talks.
Mike Waltz
When the mediators, in this case Pakistan, ask US Head of state to head of state to give this negotiation another chance before we go back to bombing Iran, then I think that's completely an appropriate choice for President Trump to make. He is giving diplomacy every chance we possibly can before going back to hostilities, but he's absolutely prepared to do that.
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Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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suggested the offensive stage of the conflict with Iran, so called Operation Epic Fury, was over.
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But on yesterday's 60 Minutes, Israeli Prime
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Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a different tone.
Interviewer
Is the war with Iran over? And if it isn't, who will decide when it is?
Benjamin Netanyahu
I think it accomplished a great deal, but it's not over because there's still nuclear material, enriched uranium that has to be taken out of Iran. There is still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still want to produce. Now we've degraded a lot of it, but all of that is still there and there's work to be done.
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It leaves markets again wondering how and
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when the all important Strait of Hormuz might open back up. Oil prices spiked at Trump's rejection and gas prices continued to surge for Americans. AAA reported on Thursday that the average price for a gallon of gas jumped 25 cents for the second week in a row. It now sits at $4.55.
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That's more than a dollar higher than
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a year ago and the highest level since 2022.
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As political pressure mounts, Senate Democrats have
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floated the idea of suspending the federal gas tax of roughly 18 cents per gallon. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was asked about that on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday.
Chris Wright
Would you support suspending the federal gas tax to give families relief right now?
Mike Waltz
Yeah, all measures that can be taken to lower the price at and lower the prices for Americans this administration is in support of.
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In March, Wright told NBC he was
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confident gas could dip back below $3 by the summer travel season. Yesterday, he refused to make any more predictions.
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And this morning, the bank Morgan Stanley
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warned that the oil market was now in a race against time, with more price rises likely if the strait doesn't open up soon.
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Last week, a major electoral and a
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crucial court decision appeared to put Republicans at a significant advantage in the nationwide fight over redistricting in Virginia.
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The state Supreme Court on Friday struck
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down a new map created by Democrats that would have given them as many as 10 of the state's 11 House seats.
Alec Hernandez
The Supreme Court in Virginia really dealt not only Democrats in Virginia, but Democrats nationwide one of their biggest setbacks in this whole redistricting saga.
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Alec Hernandez is a national politics reporter for Politico.
Alec Hernandez
And they said, you know, even though this went to a referendum and the voters voted in favor of redistricting in the commonwealth, the way that state legislators and the governor opened the door to the referendum, the way that they got this on the ballot in the first place, was done improperly.
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries described it
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as, quote, a shocking decision and said the fight is not over.
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According to the New York Times, Democratic
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leadership was in deep discussions for any way forward that might recover their map. With no decision reached and they don't have long.
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A state election official in Virginia said
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that any changes made after this Tuesday would risk his agency being unable to prepare for upcoming primaries.
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Republicans, meanwhile, seem to be having more
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success with their gerrymandering efforts.
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Last week's primary election in Indiana proved
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that Trump's sway over the electorate is still strong there. Many of the candidates who defied the president on redistricting were ousted by voters,
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which could have a ripple effect in
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other parts of the country.
Alec Hernandez
A lot of these states are either about to have their primaries or they've already, you know, voting has already started. Early voting has already started. So the pressure is on for a lot of Republicans in these states to, you know, move forward with what the president wants here in this redistricting effort, but also trying to stave off as much election chaos as they can in their own states as primary season is really underway here.
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Trump is mounting huge pressure across several
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Southern states where lawmakers are still considering last minute changes that could hand Republicans an advantage.
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Last week, Tennessee passed a new map
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eliminating its lone district held by a Democrat.
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And things could get worse for Democrats
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following the Supreme Court's decision to weaken the Voting Rights Act.
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Following that ruling, Louisiana is now considering
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eliminating at least one of its majority black districts. Tensions erupted there when protesters tried to disrupt a debate on the issue last week.
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Hernandez says in the meantime, the White
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House is likely to keep pushing.
Alec Hernandez
They've been basically on the phone with a lot of these Republicans in these Southern states to say, hey, like, we would really like you to take a look at these maps ahead of the midterms or whenever you can. But we haven't seen them as bullish or as revengeful as we did in Indiana. But again, a lot of them have signaled that they're willing to move forward here in the process. So I think the White House is very keen to keep this process moving forward and we'll see how engaged they stay in these last couple states.
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In South Carolina, there are already indications
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the pressure campaign is working there.
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State House lawmakers began discussions a few
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days ago on bills to redraw congressional districts despite some earlier resistance.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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Kennedy, Jr. Has long criticized the use of psychiatric drugs in America. And last week he outlined in detail what he wanted to do about it for the first time since taking up the post.
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Speaking at a Make America Healthy Again
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event, he said the country faced a dependency crisis.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Too many patients begin treatment without a clear understanding of the risks and how long they will stay on these drugs or how to come off of them. And that's not informed consent. We are going to fix it.
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Kennedy's department issued a letter to providers
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encouraging clinicians to help transition their patients away from antidepressants and to non pharmaceutical interventions.
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The letter announced changes like new training,
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clinical guidelines and reimbursement systems.
Liz White
The center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has a lot of power over how doctors spend their time based on what they will reimburse.
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Liz White is a reporter with the
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Wall Street Journal and looked into the announcement.
Liz White
And so Kennedy is coming out and saying, our team at CMS is going to figure out how to reimburse doctors for the very time consuming work of walking a patient through getting off one of these drugs in a way that helps incentivize these providers to be willing to do that.
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In his speech, Kennedy took aim at what are called SSRIs. These are drugs like Zoloft, Lexapro and Prozac, which were introduced around 40 years ago and have risen in popularity as a safe and effective treatment alongside therapy.
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Around one in six Americans are now
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thought to be on an ssri. Some people report difficulty in coming off the medication and can experience side effects when they do stop, especially when doing so abruptly. Part of the HHS initiative was welcomed by medical groups, and some physicians and patient groups have pushed the FDA to warn about potential withdrawal symptoms.
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But Kennedy also received criticism for how
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he delivered his message.
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He suggested, for example, that heroin, a
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drug he was addicted to, was easier to quit than antidepressants, even though existing research contradicts this.
Liz White
There's been notes of caution on this kind of rhetoric coming from people who work in this space because they worry that, as the secretary has done with vaccines, there's a demonization of these drugs going on in a way that's inappropriate.
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He's also, in the past without evidence,
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linked SSRIs to violence, including mass shootings.
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The American Psychiatric association described Kennedy's speech
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as an oversimplification and said his focus ignored a larger reality of patients struggling to get access to the care they needed.
Liz White
A lot of doctors and scientists have, even though there are things about antidepressants that we're not sure of, they worry about access being limited to these drugs and don't want to push people away from what could be a really helpful intervention for severe depression.
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Kennedy, for his part, stressed he was not telling people to stop taking their
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medication and said it has an important role in treatment.
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He said in the coming months, his department would publish new data on prescribing
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trends and clinical guidance for providers.
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And finally, here are a few other stories. Seventeen Americans are being repatriated from the
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luxury cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak.
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One has tested positive for the virus
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and another is showing mild symptoms.
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All the American citizens are being flown
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back to the US and the two passengers with symptoms are traveling in the plane's biocontainment unit.
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Once they land in Nebraska, they will
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be monitored at the country's only federally funded quarantine center. The MV Hondias, where an outbreak of the deadly hantavirus killed three people and
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infected several others, came ashore in the
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Spanish Canal, Canary Islands on Sunday.
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Those being evacuated from the ship were
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kept strictly quarantined from the public and wore head to toe protective gear and masks as they rode in a small boat to shore.
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The WHO maintains the risk to the
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public is low and those disembarking will not come into contact with locals. The remains of missing US Soldier in Morocco were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.
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Army officials say 27 year old Kendrick
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Lamont Key Jr. An air defense officer, was hiking while off duty when he and another American soldier fell off a cliff.
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The troops were reported missing on May 2. They were in Morocco participating in African
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lion, an annual military exercise involving multiple countries.
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The two soldiers went missing outside of
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the Taunton Province, where the terrain is characterized by mountains and desert. Efforts are ongoing to find the second missing soldier.
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When the two were reported missing, it
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triggered a massive search and rescue effort involving more than 600 personnel from the U.S. morocco and other partners
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and the hottest sporting ticket of the year is
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apparently not the super bowl after all, but in fact a World cup group stage match between Colombia and Portugal.
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The Wall Street Journal reports that tickets
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have reached $2,500, surpassing the average get in price of this year's NFL championship game.
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It's partly who's playing. It's one of the few group games
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where two of the top 15 teams are facing off against each other. It's also likely going to be the last World cup for Cristiano Ronaldo. And then there's the location.
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The game is in Miami and nearly
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500,000 Colombians live in Florida.
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One man who grew up in Bogota
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wound up paying $8,650 for three tickets. The airport repair supervisor told the Wall
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Street Journal that he thought the price
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point was crazy, but he just couldn't stand the fomo.
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Podcast: Apple News Today
Host: Apple News
Date: May 11, 2026
Episode Title: “Totally unacceptable”: Trump rejects Iran’s latest negotiation offer
This episode of Apple News Today, hosted by Shumita Basu with contributions from Gideon Resnick, covers pivotal developments in U.S.–Iran negotiations, U.S. domestic politics with a focus on redistricting battles, and a new federal health initiative on antidepressants. The episode also touches on international health concerns and trending sports news, providing listeners with succinct updates from top journalists and news outlets.
Main Theme: Increasing tension and stalled progress in U.S.–Iran negotiations, with President Trump's outright rejection of Iran's latest proposal.
[00:40] "Completely unacceptable." — President Trump on Iran’s proposal
Both nations have rejected each other’s terms for ending the war, keeping the region unstable.
Details of Rejected Proposals:
Negotiation Uncertainty: It remains unclear how talks will proceed, despite earlier optimism from Trump.
Michael Waltz, U.S. Ambassador to the UN ([01:32]):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ([01:57]): Announced the end of Operation Epic Fury, but Israeli PM Netanyahu countered, insisting significant risks and required actions remain.
Benjamin Netanyahu on '60 Minutes' ([02:14]):
Main Theme: Legal and political blows to Democrats’ efforts to redraw election maps, and Republican momentum in the midterms run-up.
Main Theme: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. calls for reducing psychiatric drug dependency and a shift to non-pharmaceutical interventions.
"Too many patients begin treatment without a clear understanding of the risks...and that's not informed consent. We are going to fix it."
HHS guidance: Clinicians urged to help patients transition away from antidepressants, supported by new training, clinical guidelines, and reimbursement policies.
Liz White, Wall Street Journal ([08:01]):
Colombia vs Portugal in Miami becomes the hottest ticket, surpassing Super Bowl prices.
High demand fueled by top-ranked teams, potential last World Cup for Ronaldo, and large Colombian community in Florida.
This episode provides a brisk, well-sourced rundown of major news stories—focusing especially on the international impasse with Iran, the fierce state-by-state battles over Congressional redistricting, and the controversial federal push to reduce antidepressant use. The episode closes with urgent health updates and a snapshot of global sports mania. For further reading and updates on all stories, listeners are directed to the Apple News app.