
Niche collectors, tourists behaving badly, parental guilt: Catch up on the day’s stories
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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! Parents and kids have been battling over screen time for years. Recent research found parents should let go of guilt over letting their children use phones and tablets more than experts recommend. Here’s why. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 1️⃣ Niche hobby: For these collectors of aviation accoutrements, their leisure time activity is serious business. It helps to have a really good sense of humor — and a strong stomach. 2️⃣ Worker safety: The sweltering temperatures across much of the United States have put a spotlight on what steps companies should be doing to protect employees. Here’s what you should know even if you don’t work outside. 3️⃣ Parkour problem: The latest chapter of tourists behaving badly comes from Italy, where visitors ran, climbed and leaped over an ancient city’s historic structures. Part of one building came crashing down. ➕ Just Stop Oil protesters spray Stonehenge with paint. 4️⃣ Cosmic awakening: Astronomers are witnessing a never-before-seen spectacle in real time as a supermassive black hole emerges at the center of a distant galaxy.

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.

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.










