Catch up on the day’s stories: Target slashing prices, cannabis poisoning, tick season
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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! It’s tick season. If you spend a lot of time outside, take a close look to make sure one isn’t burrowing into your skin. Ticks are becoming increasingly common — there are more than 800 varieties — and they can spread disease. Here’s what you need to know about these parasitic little bloodsuckers. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day: 1️⃣ Cutting prices: Target slashed prices on 1,500 popular items, everything from butter to laundry detergent, effective immediately. Other stores such as Ikea and Aldi also have reduced prices recently in an effort to attract customers fed up with inflation. ➕ Wealthy Americans are starting to spend more carefully. 2️⃣ Cannabis poisoning: Young people are usually the ones we think are using too much marijuana, but that’s not necessarily the case. The greatest increase after legalized was actually among older adults, and some of them ended up in the hospital. 3️⃣ Money matters: If you’re retired, or just taking a break from work, there are ways to make your money work for you. It just takes a little strategizing and determining your threshold for risk. Here are some basics to consider. 4️⃣ Dangerous drinking: Large plastic jugs filled with alcoholic concoctions are popular with college students and other Gen Z partygoers. Some are sounding the alarm about the risks of “blackout rage gallon” drinking, aka BORG.
The state of Maryland is set to gain control of the DC Air National Guard fighter squadron as part of a major deal that will see the nation’s capital take over the site of RFK stadium.
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” after President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates to life in prison.
Former President Bill Clinton was discharged from a hospital on Tuesday one day after being admitted for the flu, his office said.
While public anxieties have loomed over the Northeast amid possible drone sightings, one sighting will soon bring holiday cheer across the country: Santa Claus.
Prosecutors on Monday charged 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta-Calil with first- and second-degree murder and first-degree arson in connection with the death of a woman who died after being set on fire in a New York City subway train a day earlier.
Some Democratic lawmakers are pressuring the Biden administration to take further action on student loans before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, including finalizing some debt forgiveness it already approved.
New Mexico prosecutors won’t pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting on a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie, the Santa Fe district attorney’s office announced Monday.
One of the world’s most active volcanoes erupted on Monday after a three-month hiatus, spewing bright orange lava as high as 300 feet, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
President Joe Biden’s announcement that he’s taking 37 people off federal death row resulted in praise from some families and deep disappointment from others.
One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States.
Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday afternoon to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC, where he is undergoing testing and observation after developing a fever, his spokesman told CNN.