New York judge says Trump is not immune from hush money conviction A spokesperson for President-elect Trump said the case should never have been brought, called for its immediate dismissal. Read more on NPR

Can Trump turn promises into policy? Donald Trump becomes the 47th President of the United States in just over a month. Throughout his campaign, Trump laid out a list. Things he plans to accomplish in a second term — some on day one. They include: closing the border…imposing tariffs… and ending the war between Russia…

Will Sectarian Groups Get Along in a New Syria? As the future of Syria begins to emerge, one minority group is particularly fearful about how they’ll be treated. The Alawites feel like they were mistreated by now-deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad, but because he was a member of that sect, they are also unfairly tied to…

TikTok asks the Supreme Court for an emergency order to block a US ban unless it’s sold A similar plea was filed by content creators who rely on the platform for income and some of TikTok’s more than 170 million users in the U.S. Read more on NPR

Sotheby’s to auction off ancient Ten Commandments tablet One of the earliest tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments (dating to A.D. 300-800) is scheduled to go up for auction at Sotheby’s on Wednesday. Read more on NPR

Amazon manipulated injury data to make warehouses appear safer, a Senate probe finds A Senate committee investigation, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, accused Amazon of risking worker safety for speed while manipulating injury data to make its warehouses seem safer than they are. Read more on NPR

Four people are dead and several more are hospitalized in Wisconsin school shooting Four victims and the suspected shooter are dead after a shooting at a Wisconsin grade school. Read more on NPR

First public comments attributed to Assad claim he never planned to leave Syria Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued his first remarks since opposition forces took over the capital over a week ago in a Telegram post from Moscow. Read more on NPR

Germany’s Scholz loses a confidence vote, triggering new elections German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had hoped for this outcome when he called for the confidence vote, analysts say. His aim: to win fresh elections in February and come back with a stronger mandate. Read more on NPR

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a longtime theater lover, makes her Broadway debut Jackson made a cameo in the romantic comedy musical &Juliet on Saturday night. She told NPR: “I got a call, and someone said, ‘We heard that this was your lifelong dream.’ And it is.” Read more on NPR