食品通胀与零售商价格战
随着美国食品价格的持续攀升，普通家庭在超市结账时感受到了沉重的经济压力。近期民意调查显示，已有高达 61% 的美国消费者 迫于生计不得不削减购物车中的开支。这种消费降级趋势直接导致各大零售巨头陷入激烈的客户争夺战：
- 沃尔玛（Walmart: 全美最大的零售商）本周宣布降低碎牛肉、玉米、薯片和可口可乐等核心商品的售价。
- 好市多（Costco: 美国最大的会员制仓储超市）近期也调低了鸡蛋和牛肉等生活必需品的价格。
- 克罗格（Kroger: 旗下拥有 Fred Meyer 和 King Soopers 等大型连锁超市的零售巨头）则向投资者透露，正在进行动态降价测试，以评估哪些商品的折扣最能有效吸引客流。
然而，在燃油成本因战争飙升、特朗普政府时期削减食品券（Food Stamps: 针对低收入群体的联邦食品辅助计划）以及减肥药物普及等多重因素交织下，消费者的整体账单短期内依然难以减轻。美国农业部（USDA）预测，猪肉、禽类、新鲜果蔬的价格今年仍将面临持续上涨的压力。
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Across the country, Americans are feeling the pain at the grocery store. $47 for five cans of vegetables, a roast, and one onion. Rising food prices aren't new, but they've been exacerbated the last few months by higher fuel costs from the war with Iran. It's feeding into a situation where prices are going up and how much people buy is going down. Recent polling shows that 61% of Americans say they've had to cut back on what goes in the cart. That's left grocery stores scrambling after what's already been a pretty rough year and a half. With not just higher prices, but also the reduction in food stamp programs under the Trump administration and the rise of weight loss medications, people are just buying less. In response, stores are now racing to lower prices on some key products as they compete for cash-strapped customers. Walmart, the biggest retailer in the country, said this week it's lowering price tags for ground beef, corn, potato chips, and Coca-Cola. It's the latest retailer to try this. Costco said recently it was dropping prices on eggs and beef. And Kroger, which owns chains like Fred Meyer and King Supers, told investors it was experimenting to see which products it could lower prices on to attract customers. Despite the discounts, people's overall grocery bills are still unlikely to go down. Beef prices continue to hit record levels, and the USDA predicts that prices for pork, poultry, fresh vegetables, and fresh fruit will all increase this year.中期选举前的权力重构
距离美国中期选举仅剩约四个月的时间，特朗普（Donald Trump）政府各机构正在加速实施多项旨在影响选举规则与走向的政策举措。尽管美国宪法并未赋予行政分支对选举事务的管辖权，但多项行政动作显露出重塑选举天平的倾向：
- 司法部（Department of Justice）正试图通过非公开渠道获取选民的个人隐私数据。
- 国土安全部（Department of Homeland Security）在缺乏实质证据的情况下，高调对“非公民投票”的现象展开调查。
- 地方共和党立法者主导的杰利蝾螈（Gerrymandering: 通过不公平的选区划分来帮助特定政党赢得选举的行为）在多个州被付诸实施，重新绘制了更有利于共和党人的“安全选区”。
这些举措在被部分地方法院驳回的同时，也在潜移默化地动摇公众对选举制度的信任。选举专家指出，这一系列干预行为实际上是在为可能到来的法律挑战和选举结果争议铺平道路。
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The midterm elections are about four months away and my colleagues and I have been looking at all of the ways that agencies across the Trump administration have been trying to change or influence how American elections are run. Nick Corasaniti covers politics for the Times. He says his team has traced dozens of Trump administration actions that seem to be designed to tip the scales of the midterm elections in favor of Republicans. One of the most significant has been Trump's push to have the federal government take over the elections process. Now, it's important to remember the Constitution grants no authority to the executive branch over elections. But that hasn't stopped the Trump administration from leaning on their agencies to try and enact policies that would change the way we vote by getting private voter data through the Department of Justice or investigating the spectre of non-citizens voting through the Department of Homeland Security when there is little to no evidence of widespread non-citizens voting. They've also sought to change congressional maps, and this is perhaps the most direct way they're looking to influence the midterm elections in their favor. Leaning on Republicans in state legislatures, they've redrawn congressional maps in a host of states, creating newly safe Republican districts intended to give them an advantage heading into a midterm election that based on polling looks to be fairly difficult for Republicans. Nick says that beyond the push to nationalize elections and change voting maps, Trump has also tried to tighten voting restrictions, cut back on election security efforts and continued to actively spread election related conspiracy theories. While some of the administration's actions have been blocked by the courts, taken together, all the efforts could impact how people vote and who can vote on election day. And experts say they could also help sow widespread doubt about the results of the midterms and lay the groundwork for potential legal challenges if Republican candidates lose.以军调查囚犯虐待丑闻
一幅在社交媒体上流传的巴勒斯坦人受虐照片引发了国际社会的广泛关注。照片显示一名双手被扎带束缚、双眼被蒙蔽的男子仅穿着内衣，脸部朝下被绑在折叠床上，并配有希伯来语“早上好”的嘲讽文字。针对这起事件，各方反应及背景如下：
- 人权组织明确指出，该照片是极其严重的战争罪行铁证，反映出军营中系统性虐待行为的冰山一角。
- 以色列国防军（Israel Defense Forces）随后证实了该照片的真实性，并发表声明称已对相关涉事士兵展开调查。
- 纽约时报此前曾深度披露了以色列南部一处军事基地对加沙被羁押人员的普遍虐待行为，包括殴打、剥夺食物和医疗服务等。
人权人士批评指出，以色列士兵频繁在网络上发布具有犯罪嫌疑的音视频，且并未受到及时惩戒，这表明在以色列军队内部已经形成了一种默许甚至纵容虐待的文化偏向。
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A photo has been going around on social media recently showing a blindfolded man lying on a cot with his hands zip tied behind his back. He's only in his underwear and he is lashed to the cot face down. The caption says, "Good morning." in Hebrew. It's not clear who the man is, but the image was shared by a Palestinian activist who said it was first posted by an Israeli soldier who has since deleted his account. Human rights groups say it's evidence of a war crime. The Israeli military has now confirmed the authenticity of the photo and said it is investigating. It did not say where the prisoner was from, where the photo was taken, or how many Israeli soldiers were believed to be involved. In the past few years, Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians, often without bringing any charges, and has denied the International Red Cross access to visit them. Many of the prisoners have described being stripped or otherwise humiliated, beaten, and deprived of adequate food or medical care. The Times extensively documented the abuse of prisoners at one military base in southern Israel, where most Gazans detained during the war were brought for interrogation. Israeli soldiers have frequently posted what appear to be incriminating photographs or videos of themselves during the war. Rights groups say the fact that they feel comfortable doing that reflects a cultural shift in the military, even as military officials insist such incidents are against its rules. In a statement issued last night, the Israeli military said it continues to identify cases that deviate from what is expected of IDF soldiers and that actions would be taken against those involved.沃利·芬克的太空追梦终章
曾在 2021 年创下人类最年长太空飞行者记录的传奇女飞行员沃利·芬克（Wally Funk，原名 Mary Wallace Funk）本周逝世，享年 87 岁。她的一生是女性挑战传统航空航天边界的缩影：
- 水星13计划（Mercury 13: 20世纪60年代初由私人资助的美国女性宇航员筛选与测试项目）：芬克是该计划的核心成员之一，经历了包括向耳道注入冰水以测试前庭功能在内的多项极其严苛的生理极限测试。
- 职业生涯拓荒：在被 美国航空航天局（NASA）因性别原因拒绝参与太空任务后，芬克转而成为美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）的第一位女性安全检查员，并参与了大量空难事故的调查工作。
- 终圆太空梦：2021 年，82 岁的芬克搭乘蓝色起源（Blue Origin: 杰夫·贝佐斯创立的商业太空探索公司）的新谢泼德号火箭成功飞入太空，尽管这一最年长宇航员的头衔在数月后被 90 岁的演员威廉·夏特纳打破，但芬克对天空和宇宙的探索热情从未熄灭。
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I got my first try at flying, just pure flying, by flying my Superman cape off my daddy's barn when I was about 5 years old. Wally Funk, who once broke the record for the oldest person to go to space, died this week at age 87. Born Mary Wallace Funk, as a kid, she wanted to be an astronaut. And in the early 1960s, it seemed like maybe there was a chance. She was among a group of women known as the Mercury 13 who were put through rigorous tests to determine how women might fare in space. They were testing us to our extremes to how much can we take of 10-degree water being injected into our ears and how fast is our eye going to stare at a particular object. Funk passed all the tests, but NASA continued to only send men into space until the 1980s. Instead, Funk leaned into her love of flying. She worked as a commercial pilot, owned a flying school, and became the first woman to work as an inspector for the FAA, overseeing investigations into plane crashes. But she never gave up on her dream. And in 2021, at age 82, she boarded a rocket built by Jeff Bezos's company, Blue Origin, that earned her the record for the oldest person to go to space, a title she held for a few months until a then 90-year-old William Shatner of Star Trek fame unseated her. Wally, what was it like? I can't tell you. At a news conference after her big flight, Funk said the only problem with her trip to space was that it was too short. I loved it. We had a great time. It was wonderful. I want to go again fast.周末新闻知识问答
在节目的尾声，主持人Tracy Mumford组织了本周的 Friday News Quiz，涵盖了多个社会热点：
- 旧金山房产市场的股权置换交易：在人工智能（AI）热潮的催化下，Anthropic 与 OpenAI 等巨头临近上市（IPO）造就了大量新晋富豪。部分急于套现的旧金山房主甚至要求购房者用未上市的初创公司股票抵扣部分房款，使得当地平均房租和售价大幅超越纽约。
- 减肥药物的使用激增：盖洛普（Gallup: 美国知名民意调查机构）最新调查显示，受诺和诺德等公司生产的奥赛匹克（Ozempic）及维格威（Wegovy）等药物降价并获批治疗其他疾病的推动，目前全美已有 11% 的成年人 正在使用此类减肥药物，推动了肥胖率和糖尿病诊断率的趋稳下降。
- 第78届艾美奖提名揭晓：医疗剧《The Pit》以 25 项提名领跑本届艾美奖。与此同时，在电视剧行业深耕数十年却从未染指该奖项的两位老戏骨——史蒂夫·卡瑞尔（Steve Carell）凭借校园喜剧《Rooster》、马丁·肖特（Martin Short）凭借《大楼里只有谋杀》（Only Murders in the Building）再次获得喜剧类最佳男主角提名。
Original English Source
Those are the headlines. If you'd like to play the Friday News quiz, stick around. It's just after these credits. This show is made by Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Yan Stewart, and me, Tracy Mumford. Original theme by Dan Powell. Special thanks to Isabella Anderson, Sam Dolnick, Miles McKinley, Zoe Murphy, and Chris Wood. Now, time for the quiz. Every week, we ask you a few questions about stories the Times has been covering. Can you get them all? First question. Yo, this is the cost of a one bed, one bath apartment in San Francisco. $5,000. The housing market in San Francisco is wild. So now we are paying just under 8K. I think it's like 70 a little over $7,800. Fueled by tech money, the city's average rent has recently passed New York City's to become the most expensive in the country. Buying is not any better. And thanks to the AI boom, it seems to be getting much much worse and much more. Are you kidding me? Now some sellers are not just asking for cash but also for what? The answer, stock. Basically with AI giants like Anthropic and OpenAI about to go public, sellers are trying to get those companies employees who want to buy their house to hand over some of their stock, which will likely go up in value when those IPOs happen. On top of the stock requests, houses in the Bay Area are now regularly going for a million over asking. And that might just be the start of things since, according to one estimate, the flurry of new AI related IPOs could create more than 16,000 new millionaires. All right, next question. A new national poll from Gallup published this week found that more Americans than ever are taking weight loss drugs. Just 2 years ago, 3% of people in the US said they were taking one of the obesity drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy. Since then, that number has surged as prices for the medications have dropped and they've been cleared to treat other conditions like liver disease and sleep apnea. Your question, what percent of Americans now say they are currently on one of these drugs? The answer, the number of people who say they use them has almost quadrupled to 11%. Data also shows that the obesity rate in the US is falling, dropping to just over 36% of adults from a peak of almost 40% a few years ago. Beyond that, rates of diabetes diagnosis, which had been climbing for over a decade, are now holding steady. And last question. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining us for the 78th Emmy Awards nominations announcement. The Emmy nominations are now out, the Oscars of television. And there are a lot of powerhouses in the mix who have won before, like the medical drama The Pit, which has the most nods this year at a whopping 25. But I'm going to ask you about some nominees who have never won. This year, there are two people up for best actor in a comedy series who have been in the industry for decades, but have never won this prize. Let's see if you can name them. First, people say, "I am the best boss." An actor best known for playing the manager you do not want to have. They go, "God, we've never worked in a place like this before. You're hilarious." The answer, Steve Carell. And despite his huge run on The Office, he has never gotten an acting Emmy, but he is up for it now for the college campus comedy Rooster. And next one. You know, I spent all day looking for some cash to make this podcast special. You would not call him tall. No one wants a murder podcast about real estate. That is Martin Short. SNL helped launch him to fame all the way back in the 80s, but it is his role on Only Murders in the Building that could get him his first acting Emmy. The winners will be announced in September. That's it for the news quiz. One little bonus question for you. Do you know why they're called the Emmy Awards? If you think you know the answer, send us an email at theheadlines@nytimes.com. I'm Tracy Mumford. The show will be back on Monday.📌 文中提及的人物和组织
公司/组织: New York Times, Walmart, Costco, Kroger, Blue Origin, NASA