Sleep profiles, virus season, preparing for layoffs: Catch up on the day’s stories
By Daniel Wine, CNN
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Here’s what else you might have missed during your busy day.
5 things
1️⃣ Sleep profiles
About 1 in 3 American adults don’t get enough shut-eye. A new study identified five distinct sleep types linked to different patterns of mood, health and brain activity. A doctor explains what they mean for your health.
2️⃣ Dreams on hold
Chase Franklin had everything all set for his move from North Dakota to Kansas for a new job. Days before he was supposed to close on his home, the government shut down, throwing a giant wrench into his carefully constructed plans.
3️⃣ Gorilla-like grip
The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity. Researchers are intrigued.
4️⃣ Peak season
The leaves are changing colors and there’s a chill in the air, so that means respiratory virus season has arrived. Here’s what you should know about this year’s vaccines for Covid-19, flu and RSV.
5️⃣ Chance encounter
A hospital in India — thousands of miles from home — was the last place Charlotte Phillips expected to find love. Then she crossed paths with an American patient there, and life was never the same again.
Watch this
😱 ‘Things can die very quickly in here’: The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia was a psychiatric hospital for well over a century before closing in 1994. Now it’s a tourist attraction, and the guides swear some patients never left.
Top headlines
- Judge halts Trump’s planned layoffs of federal workers during shutdown
- Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments on the Voting Rights Act and race-based redistricting
- Her 13-year-old was arrested by local police, then sent to an ICE facility in another state
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🏠 Home sweet home: Zooey Deschanel’s Manhattan duplex is overflowing with bespoke design flourishes. Step inside the house she shares with her fiancé Jonathan Scott, star of “Property Brothers.”
Quiz time
🤝 Syria’s interim president met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. What is his name?
A. Bashar al-Assad
B. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
C. Ahmed Al-Sharaa
D. Abdul Latif Rashid
⬇️ Scroll down for the answer.
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🧠 Quiz answer: C. Al-Sharaa sat down with Putin for their first face-to-face meeting.
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Today’s edition of 5 Things PM was edited and produced by CNN’s Kimberly Richardson and Chris Good.
