On today's episode:

• Brown University police chief placed on leave after fatal shooting, feds launch investigation.
• Hundreds mourn Brown University sophomore Ella Cook, killed in campus shooting.
• At least 5 killed after Mexican Navy plane on medical mission crashes in Texas.
• Schumer urges Senate to take legal action over Justice Department’s staggered Epstein files release.
• Powerball jackpot soars to $1.7 billion after another night with no big winner.
• Kansas City Chiefs announce they will leave Arrowhead and relocate across the Kansas-Missouri border.
• US strikes another alleged drug-smuggling boat in eastern Pacific.
• Trump warns Maduro against playing 'tough' as US escalates pressure campaign on Venezuela.
• Trump announces plans for new Navy 'battleship'.
• 21 Democratic-led states sue White House over consumer protection bureau funding.
• Coast Guard is pursuing another tanker helping Venezuela skirt sanctions, US official says.
• Trump administration pauses 5 offshore wind projects on the East Coast.
• Singer-songwriter Chris Rea, known for 'Driving Home for Christmas,' dies at 74.
• Cloudy future for bourbon has Jim Beam closing Kentucky distillery for a year.
• Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled.
• Search is on for 3 inmates, including a murder suspect, who escaped from a Georgia jail.
• US stocks rise at the start of a holiday-shortened week.
• A quarterback’s career day leads his team to a fifth straight win on Monday Night Football, a notable NFL franchise will cross state lines for a new stadium, a star wideout is suspended for a fan altercation, an NBA rookie sets a 3-point record and the latest AP Top 25 poll in men’s college hoops.
• It's been 50 years since a lawyer's decision unlocked free agency in MLB and changed sports forever.
• Major Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine kills at least 3 people and cuts power.
• The killing of a general in Moscow follows a series of assassinations Russia blames on Ukraine.
• Bondi Beach shooting suspect conducted firearms training with his father, Australian police say.
• Turkish agents capture an IS member on the Afghan-Pakistan border.
• Cyberattack disrupts France's postal service and banking during Christmas rush.
• Pope offers gentle critique of Vatican culture in Christmas greeting reminiscent of past.
• Denmark insists on respect for territorial integrity after Trump appoints envoy to Greenland.

—The Associated Press

About this program

Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.

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