Catch up on the day’s stories: AI helping injured soldiers, surging home prices, endless cruise
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CNN’s 5 Things PM brings you the stories you might have missed during your busy day.
👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! How would you like to spend the rest of your life on a cruise ship? I’m in the “no thanks” camp, but if you’re thinking “sign me up!” then you can visit 425 ports in 147 countries and circumnavigate the globe every three and a half years. One plus: The itinerary is designed so it’s always spring or summer wherever you are. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 1️⃣ Modern healing: Advancements in artificial intelligence and bionics are allowing injured Ukrainian soldiers to return to action. AI or machine learning can help patients who’ve lost limbs regain movement, and in some cases even gain functions they didn’t originally have. ➕ Privacy experts sound the alarm over Microsoft’s latest AI tool. 2️⃣ Aid for children: A YouTube star known as Ms Rachel decided to raise money for kids in Gaza and other war zones. “We should be ashamed of how children around the world are suffering,” she wrote. Ms Rachel was discouraged by some negative comments but managed to collect $50,000 in a matter of hours. Her “Songs for Littles” video series has millions of fans around the world. 3️⃣ Home prices: Houses are getting increasingly unaffordable in cities like San Diego, Chicago and Detroit. First-time buyers are getting hit especially hard. The one bit of good news is that a rise in prices means that existing homeowners are seeing their wealth grow. 4️⃣ Fish oil supplements: They’re a popular way to ward off cardiovascular disease — especially for people over 60 — but a new study questions their effectiveness. They might actually increase the risk of first-time stroke and atrial fibrillation in healthy people.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information that could have endangered US troops through his use of Signal to discuss attack plans, a Pentagon watchdog said in an unclassified report released Thursday. It also details how Hegseth declined to cooperate with the probe.
If nothing else, the controversy over the Trump administration’s second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean has surfaced a long-overdue debate about its already legally dubious first strikes.
Two top House lawmakers emerged divided along party lines after a private briefing with the military official who oversaw September’s attack on an alleged drug vessel that included a so-called double-tap strike that killed surviving crew members, with a top Democrat calling video of the incident that was shared as part of the briefing “one of the most troubling things” he has seen as a lawmaker.
Authorities in Colombia are dealing with increasingly sophisticated criminals, who use advanced tech to produce and conceal the drugs they hope to export around the world. But police and the military are fighting back, using AI to flag suspicious passengers, cargo and mail - alongside more conventional air and sea patrols. CNN’s Isa Soares gets an inside look at Bogotá’s war on drugs.
Young Americans are “a generation under profound strain” with little confidence in institutions and widespread economic concerns, according to a Harvard Institute of Politics survey of adults younger than 30 released Thursday.
As lawmakers demand answers over reports that the US military carried out a follow-up strike that killed survivors during an attacked on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, a career Navy SEAL who has spent most of his 30 years of military experience in special operations will be responsible for providing them.
The murder trial of Brian Walshe, who is accused of killing and dismembering his wife in 2023 continues. Follow for live updates.
The FBI arrested a person Thursday who investigators believe planted pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters the night before the 2021 US Capitol riot.
Lawyers for the New York attorney general’s office are expected to appear in federal court in Albany on Thursday to try to disqualify a US attorney from investigating the state’s civil case against President Donald Trump.
A new poll shows more than 70% of Republicans with Obamacare coverage don’t want their enhanced premium subsidies to expire.
A safety volunteer accused of fatally shooting a man taking part in a “No Kings” protest last June in Salt Lake City while firing at another man he believed to be a potential mass shooter has been charged with manslaughter, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
The specter of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown looms over the Somali diaspora in the Twin Cities – home to the nation’s largest Somali population.
Honduras’ former President Juan Orlando Hernández thanked US President Donald Trump for pardoning his US drug trafficking conviction amid criticism from lawmakers that the pardon undermines the White House’s efforts to stop drug trafficking.