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Friday, November 18, 2016  View this email in your browser Good morning. It's the weekend. Use the time to plan your eventual move to Mars. We've only got a good 1,000 years left. Here's what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. By Doug Criss. 1. Politics President-elect Trump has offered retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn the job of national security advisor. He wouldn't need Senate confirmation, so that helps. Because Flynn's got a history of bashing Muslims and mishandling classified info. He was also fired from his last job. 2. Mexico Mexico's pulled the trigger on its contingency plan for a Trump presidency. It raised a key interest rate to save the peso, which plummeted after Trump won. Mexico says there's more to come if Trump makes good on promises to withdraw from NAFTA. That's because 80% of Mexico's exports is to the US.  3. Syria As feared, the three-week lull in bombing didn't last. Aleppo is once again being pummeled by airstrikes and barrel bombs. Here's how one resident describes the blitz: "Planes are more than birds, and bombs are more than rain." 4. Oil An oil reserve found in west Texas is so big, so big that it's enough to pump out 20 billion barrels of oil and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas. So it's time to "drill baby drill?" Not so fast. The price of oil is still pretty low, so oil companies probably won't have at it until prices start rising again. 5. Bills Old ideas that had no chance of becoming law are being trotted out for another try. Among them: an Indiana lawmaker who wants to criminalize abortion. And an Iowa representative who wants to penalize colleges that fund election-related grief counseling. He's calling his bill "Suck it up, Buttercup." Share Tweet Forward Breakfast Browse People are talking about these. Read up. Join in. To grandmother's house we go There's nothing like getting that Thanksgiving dinner invite from grandma. Even if it's not from your grandma. Every man (or kid) for himself The #MannequinChallenge is so last month. In this new America, all the cool kids are doing the #TrumpsComingChallenge.  West's world Kanye West says he didn't vote (no surprise). But if he did he would've voted for Trump (surprise).  Age ain't nothing but a number China's hottest fashion model is good looking, tall, muscular -- and an 80-year-old grandfather. Riddle me this Porcelain bowls have tumbled off a shelf and against a glass door. Can this cupboard be opened? It's the conundrum that confounding Taiwan and China. And finally ... My little buddy Cuteness alert! A polar bear pets a dog, and all is suddenly right with the world. (Click to view) Thanks for reading Five Things! We'd love to share our other newsletters with you. Check out CNNMoney's Reliable Sources, an insider's look into the media, brought to you by Brian Stelter. Read more stories on CNN.com » CNN Five Things shows up in your inbox every weekday at 6 a.m. ET. Like what you see? Don't like what you see? Let us know. We're all about self improvement. Did a friend forward you this newsletter? Sign yourself up! Copyright © 2016 Cable News Network, LP, LLLP. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to CNN newsletters. Our mailing address is: Cable News Network, LP, LLLP. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. One CNN Center Atlanta, GA 30303 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences