A pall is hanging over the holiday season in Lexington, Nebraska, where the Tyson beef plant, by far the largest employer in small town, is set to lay off 3,200 people when the company closes the facility on Jan. 20, after three decades of operation. | AP

The Kennedy Center started the work of adding Donald Trump’s name to the building on Friday, a day after the president’s handpicked board voted to do so, making it the The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. Critics of the vote, including Democratic members of Congress who are ex-officio board members, as well as some historians, insist that only Congress can change the name. | AP

A Russian general was killed Monday morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow, investigators said. | AP

The Colosseum metro station in Rome, a long-delayed and complex project to bring a subway line under ancient Roman ruins and through Rome’s historic center, opened to the public for the first time on Tuesday. | AP

The showdown between Fani Willis and a Republican-led Georgia state Senate committee over her conduct while prosecuting Donald Trump had loomed for months, and when it finally arrived Wednesday, Fulton County’s Democratic district attorney was ready to fight. | AP

President Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks against Rob Reiner, who was found dead in his home with his wife Michele Singer Reiner. Speaking to reporters Monday afternoon, Trump said he wasn’t a fan of Reiner's and called him "a deranged person." | AP