Farage’s Angels: Have women become Reform’s secret weapon?

Saffron may not be the typical Reform voter, but support for the party amongst Gen Z women has rapidly increased in more ...
CNN

Worst-behaved travelers, strange sea-level changes, postmark problems: Catch up on the day’s stories

EDITOR’S NOTE: The 5 Things team is off tomorrow for New Year’s Day. We’ll be back on Friday. Until then, you can head to CNN.com for the latest news updates. 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Did you know ...
CNN

Trump’s snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power

Expressions of unbridled power don’t come blunter than abducting a sitting president from his capital in the dead of night. President Donald Trump has shown in a 74-word social media post that he can ...
CNN

Flu reaches highest level in the US in 25 years

Flu continues to bring misery across the US, with all but four states showing high or very high levels of activity as a new virus strain called subclade K continues to spread. By another measure – ...
KEYT

Worst-behaved travelers, strange sea-level changes, postmark problems: Catch up on the day’s stories

👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Did you know it takes 26 hours to ring in the New Year across 39 time zones all around the world? It’s already 2026 in China, India and Australia. See how people are ...
KEYT

The number of available jobs in the US just hit its lowest level in more than a year

(CNN) — Finding a job continued to be a slog at the end of the year, new data shows: US businesses sought out fewer workers in November and hiring rates wilted even further. The number of estimated ...
KESQ News

Word of the Week: What makes a military attack ‘kinetic’?

(CNN) — When Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah first learned over the weekend that US forces had struck Venezuela and abducted its leader, he wanted answers. Without the approval of Congress, he ...
CNN

Venezuela’s opposition rejoiced at Maduro’s abduction, but Trump doesn’t seem interested in working with them

In the immediate hours following US forces bombing Caracas and abducting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Venezuela’s beleaguered opposition was ecstatic. “Venezuelans, the hour of ...
CNN

Word of the Week: ‘Redact’ resurfaces with the Epstein files

On November 30, 2019, according to documents released by the Department of Justice, the lawyer Joe Nascimento, apparently representing an unnamed employee of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ...
Jezebel

The Housemaid Is Cleaning Up, So a Sequel Is on the Way

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
CNN

January 8, 2026 — 2 shot in Portland; protests in Minneapolis over ICE shooting

A man shot by federal agents in Portland on Thursday made a 911 call shortly after the shooting, which also wounded a woman. Portland Area Fire and Rescue then dispatched responders. This is some of ...