Thursday, May 7, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine, killing over 1,100 people, including 128 Americans, and bringing the U.S. closer to entering World War I. (See Video)

If you've ever told your spouse you could watch sports for a living, today might be your chance to prove it. A major American broadcaster is paying one lucky fan $50,000 to do exactly that for two months this summer. Details below in Sports.

Is AI harming your brain? We break down the top five ways to protect yourself from the influence of AI. Listen here.

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US, Iran Closing In on Peace Memo

The White House said Wednesday it is closing in on an agreement with Iran on a one-page memo that would formally end the 68-day war, with officials expecting Tehran's response within 48 hours.

The 14-point framework would trigger 30 days of talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, lift U.S. sanctions, and impose a years-long moratorium on Iranian uranium enrichment.

President Trump on Tuesday night paused Project Freedom, the U.S. naval mission to escort ships through the strait. He warned bombing would resume "at a much higher level" if Iran rejects the deal.

Even with talks underway, fighting continued. A U.S. fighter jet struck an Iranian oil tanker trying to break the American blockade Wednesday, and Israel hit Beirut for the first time since last month's Hezbollah ceasefire.

Feds Sue NYT For Race, Gender Bias

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued the New York Times on Tuesday, alleging the paper bypassed a white male editor for promotion in favor of a less-qualified woman to meet its race and gender diversity goals.

The 11-year veteran editor, who had extensive experience covering real estate, was cut from the final interview panel for the deputy real estate editor opening last year. The role went to an outside candidate the EEOC described as a non-white female with "little to no experience in real estate journalism."

The Tuesday filing fits a broader EEOC enforcement push. Under EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas, the agency has sued a Coca-Cola distributor over a women-only networking event and is investigating Nike's diversity hiring practices.

Media Pioneer Ted Turner Dies at 87

Ted Turner, the brash media mogul who launched CNN and reshaped American television, died Wednesday after a long battle with Lewy body dementia. He was 87.

Turner, who won the nickname “The Mouth of the South” for his often off-color remarks, inherited his father's Atlanta billboard firm in 1963 and built it into a broadcasting empire, pioneering the "superstation" concept with WTBS and launching TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, and Turner Classic Movies in the early days of cable.

In 1980, Turner debuted CNN, the first 24-hour cable news network, transforming how Americans and indeed the world consumed news. He sold Turner Broadcasting to Time Warner for $7.3 billion in 1996.

Turner was an avid sportsman as well. He skippered the winning yacht in the 1977 America's Cup and owned the Atlanta Braves, who won the 1995 World Series. He also became one of America's largest landowners, championing bison conservation. Here are photos from his life.

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➤ Is AI hurting your ability to think? Here are five habits to keep your brain sharp. (Podcast Available)

➤ President Trump defended the White House ballroom's price tag after it doubled from $200 million to $400 million. (Hear Episode)

➤ A Minnesota mayor is refusing to fly Minnesota's redesigned state flag, accusing Gov. Tim Walz of bypassing voters. (Listen Now)

➤ Indiana primaries: President Trump-backed challengers in Tuesday’s Indiana primaries unseated at least five of the seven GOP state senators who opposed Trump's redistricting push, marking a major win for the president. (More)

➤ Ohio primaries: Vivek Ramaswamy won the GOP nomination in the Ohio governor’s race and will face Democrat Amy Acton, who ran unopposed, in November. Meanwhile, former Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, won his primary and will face Republican Jon Husted, who was also unopposed, in the state's U.S. Senate race. (More)

➤ Michigan special election: Democrats kept control of the state Senate with a special election victory Tuesday night by Chedrick Greene, a Marine veteran and fire captain. That leaves Democrats with a 20-18 majority in the Michigan chamber. (More)

➤ The FBI raided the office of Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, a key ally of Gov. Abigail Spanberger, on Wednesday as part of a federal corruption probe tied to an alleged illegal marijuana sales operation. (More)

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➤ FOX Sports is hiring one fan to watch all 104 World Cup matches from Times Square this summer for $50,000. Applications are now open through the Indeed job listing service. (More)

➤ The first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs averaged 1.2 million viewers across ESPN's cable networks and TNT Sports, up nearly 70% from last year. (More)

➤ Golfer Bryson DeChambeau said that if the Saudi-backed LIV league folds, he'd rather grow his YouTube channel than rush back to the PGA Tour. (More)

➤ The Toronto Maple Leafs won the NHL draft lottery with just 8.5% odds. They’re expected to pick Penn State forward Gavin McKenna with the No. 1 pick. (More)

Daily Market Report 05/06/2026

▲	NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	25,838.94	2.02%
▲	SPX S&P 500	7,365.12	1.46%
▲	DJI Dow Jones Industrial Average	49,910.59	1.24%
▲	BTC Bitcoin	$81,652.50	0.90%
▲	GOLD Per Ounce	$4,708.80	3.36%
▲	SILVER Per Ounce	$78.03	6.73%
▼	OIL West Texas Intermediate Crude	$95.64	-6.48%
▼	PRIM Primoris Services Corp.	$101.23	-50.11%

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➤ Big Stock Move: Primoris stock fell 50% on Wednesday after the infrastructure construction company missed revenue and EBITDA estimates in its first quarter earnings report. (More)

➤ The FDA approved fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for adults for the first time Tuesday in a major policy shift, authorizing mango and blueberry varieties as teen vaping rates are dropping. (More)

➤ Private employers added 109,000 jobs in April, the strongest monthly gain since January 2025 and well ahead of forecasts, according to ADP's latest employment report. (More)

➤ Nvidia and Corning announced a multiyear deal Wednesday to build three new optical fiber factories in North Carolina and Texas, creating more than 3,000 jobs and expanding U.S. AI infrastructure capacity tenfold. (More)

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➤ A new analysis of last summer's Alaska megatsunami confirms it reached roughly 1,580 feet, the second-largest wave on record, triggered when a huge mass of rocks plunged into a remote fjord. (More)

➤ Earth's nighttime brightness rose 16% between 2014 and 2022, according to a new NASA satellite analysis, with Asia, especially China and India, seeing the largest national-level increases. (See Study)

➤ Everyday movement may help flush waste from the brain, with abdominal muscle contractions acting like a hydraulic pump that pushes fluid through neural tissue, according to a new Penn State study. (More)

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➤ Mark Zuckerberg "personally authorized" pirating millions of books to train Meta's Llama AI, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by five publishers and best-selling author Scott Turow. (See Lawsuit)

➤ A French investigation uncovered that a literature professor fabricated his own international award, the Gold Medal of Philology, even staging a 2016 ceremony at the National Assembly attended by Nobel laureates. He's now banned from teaching. (More)

➤ A Philadelphia school crossing guard pulled a child from a crash involving a stolen truck, then went viral for his animated post-rescue interview where he licked an ice cream cone and repeatedly thanked Jesus. (See Interview)

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