Former Vice President Joe Biden is spending the final days of 2019 campaigning in New Hampshire and criticizing his Democratic rivals. CBS News 2020 campaign reporter Bo Erickson joins CBSN to discuss Biden’s strategy heading into 2020. Source

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later this week. The meeting comes as the House withholds articles of impeachment from the Senate. CBS News’ Skyler Henry reports. Source

A Kansas police officer “fabricated” a story that a McDonald’s employee wrote an expletive on his coffee cup over the weekend, Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday said Monday. Hornaday said the officer no longer works for the department. Source

“…It will now be a Christmas to remember! 2019- The Christmas the lawn lit on fire,” the boy’s mother wrote on Facebook. Source

Within six days, 20 horses were found fatally shot along U.S. 23 in eastern Kentucky. Source

A man accused in a Hanukkah stabbing attack in New York has been hit with five hate crime charges. Prosecutors said evidence found in the suspect’s home includes anti-Semitic journals. Don Dahler reports. Source

Authorities have identified the man who killed two parishioners in a Texas church shooting as Keith Thomas Kinnunen. The volunteer security guard who took him down is being hailed as a hero. Mireya Villarreal joined CBSN to share the latest details that have emerged from the shooting.    Source

“This was completely and solely fabricated by a Herington police office who is no longer employed with our agency,” Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday said Monday at a press conference. Source

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handily defeated a primary challenger to remain leader of the ruling right-wing Likud party. Several skiers were buried by an avalanche in the Swiss Alps. And a rapidly-moving dust cloud engulfed the Argentinian city of Mendoza. Cindy Pom rounds up the headlines from London. Source

The Bloomberg administration defended city officials’ actions in the Central Park Five case and fought a civil rights lawsuit for more than a decade. Source