👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Scrawled messages on bullet casings and weapons have popped up at several recent high-profile shootings. It’s actually an ancient practice, but the way people are doing it now offers a window into their motives. Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day. Just a couple of years ago, the US auto …
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Republican Senator Thom Tillis slammed the Trump administration’s blatant targeting of blue states as lawmakers dig in, forcing the shutdown into at least next week. President Donald Trump’s budget chief Russ Vought has announced nearly $28 billion in funds being canceled to date as the administration looks to punish blue cities and states. But Tillis warned the move will not …
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All the magic is happening at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in the Saudi capital’s Boulevard City, a 220-acre retail and entertainment zone that contains a replica of Times Square and “500 electronic games for children.” Since we last checked in, a couple of new names have been added to the festival lineup; the Whose Line Is It Anyway?–obsessed 11-year-old in …
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Three decades ago, one of America’s preeminent sports leagues was in a period of rapid expansion. The National Hockey League added two new teams in 1991, marking its first expansion in 12 years. Four more franchises were added the following two years, creating a new footprint in South Florida and bringing the league total to 26 teams. Hockey was hip. …
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MoviesMoviesThere’s the starkest of contrasts between the ugly severity of the colonel’s mission and the bug-eyed comedy of his portrayal Warner Bros./Getty Images/Ringer illustration By Justin CharitySept. 30, 1:15 pm UTC • 6 min Despite his best dramatic effort in years, Leonardo DiCaprio scrambling through police raids and political riots in a bathrobe is only the third-strongest performance in One …
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A medical examiner has found that former high school football player Shane Tamura — who shot and killed four people before taking his own life in the Manhattan building that houses the NFL headquarters in July — had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a degenerative brain disease that has repeatedly been found in the brains of American football players, …
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The amount of heat trapped by climate-warming pollution in our atmosphere is continuing to increase, the planet’s sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, and the Paris agreement’s ambitious 1.5°C target is on the verge of being breached, according to a recent report by the world’s top climate scientists. “The news is grim,” said study co-author Zeke Hausfather, a …
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MAGA world is pointing fingers over a new economic report. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced on Tuesday that the U.S. economy added fewer jobs in 2024 and early 2025 than previously reported. It found that 911,000 fewer jobs were created from April 2024 to March 2025 — marking the biggest revision on record, according to The Washington …
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In an episode of the new HBO miniseries Task, Pennsylvania garbageman Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) briefly takes hostage one of the members of the law-enforcement task force that’s been chasing him for his side gig robbing drug stash houses. After getting to know his prisoner a bit, Robbie laments, “I’ve kidnapped the most depressing human.” The thing is, there’s no shortage …
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By the time we lay eyes on the tenth or eleventh full-sized booze bottle tucked into the various nooks and crannies of Hank Thompson’s (Austin Butler) Lower East Side apartment, there’s no question this guy has problems. A generally directionless personality, a seriously scarred-up knee, and recurring nightmares of a vicious car crash that keep him GASP waking up in …
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