A Maine school social worker secretly trans-es a 13-year-old girl, “kidults” are now the main drivers of growth in the toy industry, and tens of thousands of migrants are headed for the U.S. border.

Congressional Democrats try to ram through a nearly two-trillion-dollar, 4,155-page spending bill days before Christmas; Mitch McConnell says Republicans’ top priority is Ukraine; and a German juvenile court convicts a 97-year-old woman of having worked as a secretary for the Nazis at the age of 18.