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By Jordan D. Brown, CNN 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! With the flu making people miserable from coast to coast, you may be wondering: Will a shot even help? Is it riskier than getting sick? We break down the most common vaccine myths and what the science actually shows. Here’s what else you might

By John Blake, CNN (CNN) — Philip Yancey has sold millions of books and become a sought-after speaker because he tackles tough questions of faith that many Christians prefer to avoid. But after confessing this week to an eight-year extramarital affair, the evangelical author faces a difficult question that even he may not be able

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman, Rachel Clarke, CNN Corpus Christi, Texas (CNN) — Three Robb Elementary teachers told jurors what they went through when a gunman came to their campus and massacred two of their colleagues and 19 students. Two of the survivors recounted how they called 911 to get police to come and

By Alexandra Banner, CNN The Trump administration is pulling the US out of the bedrock treaty that guides global climate cooperation, becoming the first country to do so. Such an action, if successful, would leave the US out of international climate change talks. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A regular morning in south Minneapolis turned to horror Wednesday morning as residents of Portland Avenue rushed out of their homes to sounds of commotion and gunshots. Emily Heller was in the middle of making breakfast when she heard whistles – a signal residents have used to warn their

By Evan Perez, David Culver, Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — In recent weeks, President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro have traded insults and threats that have escalated their public feud. On the ground in Colombia, however, one of the US government’s closest counter-narcotics relationships in the region continues unabated, for now. Officials at

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis was a loving mother, a poet and a partner whose family – along with neighbors across her stunned city and strangers far beyond – is shocked by the circumstances surrounding her death. Renee Nicole Good,

CNN, POOL, WCCO, EMILY HELLER, TREVOR HEITKAMP By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — The woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis was a loving mother, a poet and a partner whose family – along with neighbors across her stunned city and strangers far beyond – is shocked by the

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — United States forces boarded and seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday following a weeks-long chase on the high seas which has escalated tensions with Moscow and piled further pressure on its ally Venezuela. The aging, rusting tanker, originally called the Bella 1, was sanctioned by

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the highly unusual move by the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — In the aftermath of an ICE officer shooting and killing a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, President Donald Trump claimed in a post online that video from the incident showed the woman “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over” the officer. The Department of Homeland Security, in the initial wake

By Emma Tucker, Taylor Romine and CNN Staff Minneapolis (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to Minneapolis Wednesday after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in the city earlier in the day. Noem defended the agent’s actions, saying the woman had attempted to run an agent over in an act of “domestic

CNN By Emma Tucker, Taylor Romine and CNN Staff Minneapolis (CNN) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem traveled to Minneapolis Wednesday after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in the city earlier in the day. Noem defended the agent’s actions, saying the woman had attempted to run an agent over in an act of