A brilliant deception, buying homes online, new deep-sea species: Catch up on the day’s stories
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Editor’s Note: CNN’s 5 Things newsletter is your one-stop shop for the latest headlines and fascinating stories to start and end your busy day. Sign up here. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! In most US cities, buying a home now requires a six-figure salary. A new report found that you need to earn $108,000 to afford a new single-family home and pay property taxes and insurance costs — nearly double the household income needed in 2019. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 1️⃣ Full circle: A woman managed to fool a world-famous male-only magic society into admitting her before being unceremoniously kicked out when she revealed her true identity. Now they want her back. 2️⃣ Deep discounts: Everything costs less than $20 at Amazon’s newest store. The mobile-only experience just launched and includes fashion accessories, home goods, clothes and electronics. It’s an effort to compete with Chinese marketplaces such as Shein and Temu. 3️⃣ New experiences: Comedian Ash Perez recently got his first haircut at a barbershop, bought a suit, learned to grill and asked his close friends what it means to be a man. Here’s what a trans man is learning about masculinity at the age of 35.