The lawyer of United States president-elect Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court on December 27 to pause enforcement of a law which could ban TikTok to enable him "...to pursue a political resolution".
On December 19, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that Luigi Mangione, 26, had been charged with first-degree murder in relation to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on December 4.
On December 12, Gukesh Dommaraju, a teenage chess grandmaster from India, beat Ding Liren of China in the World Chess Championship in Singapore and became the youngest world chess champion in history.
On December 11, Christopher A. Wray, FBI Director of the US announced in an internal meeting that he will resign prior to President-elect Donald Trump taking office.
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