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.
The Senate voted Wednesday, to confirm former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.
Elon Musk acknowledged Tuesday that there might not have been a federal plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza – two weeks after the White House press secretary told the false story at an official briefing and more than a week after the president baselessly doubled the phony figure to $100 million.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the war between Ukraine and Russia “must end,” that Kyiv joining NATO is unrealistic, and that the US will no longer prioritize European and Ukrainian security as the Trump administration shifts its attention to securing the US’ own borders and deterring war with China.
The phrase “El que se enoja, pierde,” (“he who gets angry, loses”) is a popular refrain in Mexico.
Officials in Sangamon County, Illinois, have agreed to a $10 million settlement with the family of Sonya Massey –– a Black woman who was shot and killed by law enforcement in her home last year.
The inspector general of the US Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday, a day after his office released a report critical of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the agency, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East is leaving Russia with Marc Fogel, an American teacher who was jailed in Russia and deemed “wrongfully detained” by the United States, according to a statement from National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.
The novelist Salman Rushdie showed a jury his blinded right eye on Tuesday as he testified against the man charged with trying to murder him at a talk at a rural New York venue in 2022.
Conservative firebrand Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to defrauding donors in a fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern US border in a deal that allowed him to avoid prison.
Two American tourists were reportedly bitten by a shark while swimming in the Bahamas, authorities said.
The Trump administration’s effort to cut back on federal funding for the National Institute of Health for research programs at universities and medical systems has been blocked nationwide.
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Rather than take judges out of the national debate over abortion, as the 2022 Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe V. Wade promised to do, that ruling has unleashed a new wave of legal questions – including how to settle disputes between the states about whether their abortion laws can be applied outside their borders.