Catch up on the day’s news: Mayorkas impeachment fails, dementia risks, NBA player banned
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👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Using your brain for complex thinking during work can pay off in more ways than one, according to a new study. Researchers found that having a routine job with little mental stimulation during your 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s was linked to a significantly higher risk of mild cognitive impairment and dementia later in life. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 1️⃣ Alejandro Mayorkas: The Senate killed the articles of impeachment against the Homeland Security secretary as the trial barely got underway. The articles were for “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust.” 2️⃣ Aid for Ukraine: House Speaker Mike Johnson is sticking with his plan to put a series of foreign aid bills on the floor after facing significant pressure from GOP hardliners. 📹 Video: MTG says support for her motion to vacate is growing 3️⃣ Maui wildfires: Hawaii’s attorney general released findings from a comprehensive investigation into the catastrophic fires that killed 101 people last year. The report showed how environmental and geographical factors enabled the fire to intensify. 4️⃣ Abortion ruling: The GOP-controlled Arizona House voted not to move forward with a repeal of the recently revived 160-year-old ban, in a blow to reproductive rights.
Former Navy sailor sentenced to 16 years for selling information about ships to Chinese intelligence
A former US Navy sailor convicted of selling technical and operating manuals for ships and operating systems to an intelligence officer working for China was sentenced Monday to more than 16 years in prison, prosecutors said.
The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.
Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led two failed prosecutions of President Donald Trump, will testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on January 22, the panel announced Monday.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has told people that he is unhappy with the decision to criminally investigate Fed Chair Jerome Powell, a source with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
Venezuela’s promise last week to release “a significant number” of political prisoners is progressing far slower than many had hoped, as hundreds of families continue to wait in agony for their loved ones to be freed.
President Donald Trump billed strikes on Venezuela earlier this month as being about drugs, gangs invading the United States and law enforcement – i.e. arresting indicted leader Nicolás Maduro. But of late, he seems conspicuously preoccupied with the country’s oil wealth.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins announced Monday that he’s running for governor in 2026, hoping to take over for term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The top career prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Eastern District of Virginia office has been fired, according to three people familiar with the development Monday.
Lawyers for Sen. Mark Kelly filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to block Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s move to cut Kelly’s retirement pay and reduce his rank in response to Kelly’s urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders. The lawsuit argues punishing Kelly violates the First Amendment and will have a chilling effect on legislative oversight.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling on her party to “read the room” and begin appealing to a wider swath of the working-class public by keeping a stringent focus on the economy.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday, a senior White House official told CNN.
The jury in the case of former Uvalde police officer Adrian Gonzales is back in a Corpus Christi courtroom as the trial enters its second week.
The Department of Homeland Security on Monday said it would invest $115 million in counter-drone technologies to secure the World Cup and events marking 250 years of American independence.