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Dozens are injured after a car plowed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, in what local emergency services are calling an 'attack.' #cnn #news

A high-level US delegation traveled to Damascus and sat down with Syria’s de facto leader, a former jihadist with a long-standing $10 million US bounty on his head, who led the swift and successful rebellion against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. CNN’s Alex Marquardt reports. #CNN #News

In Eaton County, Michigan, a 911 dispatcher helped a couple deliver their baby in their own driveway after they realized they could not make it to the hospital.

CNN's Manu Raju reports on how House Republicans plan to pass government funding bills to avoid a government shutdown. #CNN #News

2024 was a bloody year of turmoil for the Middle East. But improbably, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ended the year better than he started it. CNN's senior field producer Mick Krever explains.

North Carolina restaurant owner Katie Button discusses what the disaster aid in the government funding bill means for hard-hit areas after Hurricane Helene. The US is just hours away from a government shutdown unless a funding plan is passed to avoid it. The House failed Thursday to pass a new Donald Trump-backed GOP proposal to fund the government into March, intensifying the threat of a shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline. #CNN #News

CNN's Nick Watt talks to a woman who describes what she says happened after she started taking Ozempic for her diabetes. #CNN #News

Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arrived in New York City on Thursday afternoon to be escorted by law enforcement to the federal courthouse in Manhattan.

Correction: A prior version showed an NYPD helicopter that Mangione did not arrive in.

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters he has a plan for the GOP spending bill and is expecting to vote again this morning. Johnson’s comments were made ahead of a meeting with Vice President-elect JD Vance and GOP lawmakers in his office. CNN’s Annie Grayer reports. #CNN #News

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a tart response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual year-end news conference, hurling a rude epithet at the Kremlin leader in comments online. #CNN #News

NYC authorities lead Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in a slow, lengthy perp walk during his transportation to a New York federal prison. Could the fanfare end up further feeding into the fandom around him? Abby Phillip and her NewsNight panelists discuss. #CNN #News

With just weeks left at 1600 Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden has largely been missing from the public eye. The Wall Street Journal reports that there were signs of his decline just month’s into his term. Republican Scott Jennings says this is the “biggest scandal in America.” Democrat Julie Roginsky says this only feeds into Americans’ distrust in government.
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