On December 11, Christopher A. Wray, FBI Director of the US announced in an internal meeting that he will resign prior to US President-elect Donald Trump taking office.
On Wednesday, American actress and musician Selena Gomez announced her engagement to American record producer Benny Blanco on Instagram, when she shared a picture of her wedding ring on her story.
On Thursday, 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 Saturday, a pair of ruby slippers worn by American actress Judy Garland while portraying Dorthy in the 1939 American musical fantasy film The Wizard of Oz were sold at Heritage Auctions in the US for US$28 million to an anonymous buyer.
Early Sunday morning, a shooting in Akron, Ohio, left one person dead and twenty four others wounded. Bullet casings and two guns were found at the scene, police said. The police received many emergency phone calls about the shooting, which happened during a birthday party shortly after midnight.
On Sunday, according to CBS News around 60,000 people from over 200 schools participated in the 59th annual Celebrate Israel Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The parade was reported to have had significant security and road closures due to concerns over attempts to cause disruption by protestors.
On Sunday, the June National Rail timetable change went into effect, seeing changes to services across the rail network in Great Britain, including the reopening of passenger service along the 10 kilometre (6.2 mi) Levenmouth Rail Link between Leven, Fife and Thornton North Junction for the first time since the service's withdrawal in 1969.
On Thursday, it was reported that US President Joe Biden gave permission for Ukraine to use U.S. weapons for counterattacks against Russian military targets near the Kharkiv region in response to Russian offensives in the area.
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