U.S. airlines are expected to fly 47.5 million people over Christmas and New Year’s. One estimate says up to three million flyers a day will cram into airline seats. While the trend has been for seats to shrink and get closer together, it hasn’t stopped some airlines from devoting years and tens of millions of dollars trying to find their perfect seat. Kris Van Cleave reports. Source

A new report suggests the U.S. may be flying spy planes over the Korean peninsula because of rising tensions with North Korea. Kim Jong Un’s regime had hinted for days about a “Christmas Gift” if the U.S. did not ease sanctions before the end of the year. Barry Petersen reports. Source

A high-profile Republican is not in line with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s strategy for President Trump’s trial. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski says she’s “disturbed” by some of McConnell’s comments. Chip Reid reports. Source

On Christmas Day, 250 people in Minneapolis were displaced after a fire swept through the Drake Hotel, a 93-year-old building that was used to shelter homeless people. No one was seriously hurt, but many of the victims are forced to start all over. Christiane Cordero reports. Source

The FBI may be looking into controversial pardons made by Kentucky’s former Republican Governor Matt Bevin, according to a report. Lawmakers from both parties say they’re concerned that some of Bevin’s last-minute pardons before he left office were favors to supporters. Don Dahler spoke to a mother who wishes she was warned that her daughter’s rapist was going free. Source

Prosecutors in Los Angeles reportedly are reviewing eight claims of sexual misconduct against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. According to Variety, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has been reviewing most of the allegations for nearly two years. It has not filed any criminal charges. Weinstein faces a trial in New York on January 6 on charges of rape and sexual assault. He denies all allegations of non-consensual sex. Rikki Slieman reports. Source

In what one activist calls “a conservation home run,” groundfish have recovered enough to reopen a vast swath off the West Coast to bottom trawler fishing Source

They were found unconscious on the ground in front of a multi-level Boston garage and died at a hospital. Their deaths are under investigation. Source

Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski says there should be distance between the White House and Senate, not the “total coordination” McConnell says there will be Source

And he accepted, she said on social media, as she highlighted her different approach to the time-honored sequence of getting engaged Source