The suspect, identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., was arrested after plowing a black BMW into a Christmas market crowded with holiday shoppers in Magdeburg, Germany, killing at least five people and wounding more than 200 others. Source

NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey has resigned following allegations of sexual misconduct, the department says. Source

Inside Gaza, mourners held funerals for 19 people, 12 of them children, killed in Israeli strikes. Source

Senior Writer and Editor Jim Wyatt tackles another batch of questions from Titans fans. Source

Isaac Klapper was 10 years old when he started having episodes of what doctors initially thought was a movement disorder. Source

Five people are dead and more than 200 injured after a car drove into a crowded Christmas market near Berlin, Germany. Investigators are looking into the past of the Saudi Arabian doctor who they say drove into the crowd at speed. Source

Reindeer — known as caribou in the U.S. — are a staple of the holiday season, but one species of the animal isn’t having a merry December. There aren’t enough females for a new generation, and a fire almost wiped out a breeding facility in Canada. Here’s what’s being done to help the species recover, and how that can help maintain a healthy ecosystem. Source

Luigi Mangione, now held in a New York City lock-up, could face the death penalty if convicted of the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The killing is sparking new concerns about violent extremism bubbling across the country. Source

A government shutdown was averted at the eleventh hour. Congress approved a hastily revised short-term government funding bill after a previous attempt failed to pass the House this week. The earlier bill was upended by President-elect Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. The new bill funds federal operations and disaster aid, but does not address Trump’s demands to raise or abolish the debt ceiling. President Biden is expected to sign the bill today. Source

50 years ago, “The Godfather Part II” was playing in theaters nationwide. The film catapulted Lee Strasberg, whose namesake form of acting preparation was used by some of the film’s leads, to stardom. Dozens of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars have trained at his institute, learning the techniques of method acting. Michelle Miller went behind the scenes to learn more about “The Method Man.” Source