Plus: Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson is free after Denmark refuses a Japanese extradition request — and he says he's ready to get back to work.

Also: Ex-Liberal MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes says the PM’s feud with Chrystia Freeland is part of a troubling and potentially anti-feminist pattern; and a Wendat lyricist helps reimagine the Huron Carol through an Indigenous lens.

Plus: New archeological evidence of a horrific cannibal attack that shows the lengths our predecessors might have gone to dehumanize their enemy.

Also: Postal workers get set to return to work -- but given the backlog and the holiday rush, a small business owner tells us it won't do him much good.

Plus: An ancient stone tablet of the ten commandments goes up for auction, minus one commandment. It’s still very expensive. 

Also: Why Switzerland is reinvesting millions in its incredibly comprehensive system of nuclear shelters; and at a combined age of 202 years and 271 days, Marjorie Fiterman and Bernie Littman are the oldest recorded newlyweds ever.

Plus: Scrim the stray dog has become a New Orleans folk hero. We reach the person working day and night to track him down. 

Also: We reach Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey, as he negotiates a historic energy deal with Quebec.

Plus: She helped restore the artwork of Notre-Dame de Paris. Today she sang there as part of a workers choir. 

Also: The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond brings us the latest on Luigi Mangione and we remember the late, great Amazing Kreskin.

Plus: Kwame Alexander remembers difficult and joyful days with his former teacher, the legendary poet Nikki Giovanni.

Also: Dahlia Scheindlin on Benjamin Netanyahu’s day in court. 

Plus: We reach Michael Jarman…winner of the 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championship -- a huge achievement that comes with an even huger belt. 

Also: NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on why he thinks elements of the proposed GST holiday should become permanent.

Nil Köksal talks to the acclaimed director and the NBC News correspondent about their documentary ‘Separated’. 

It chronicles the Trump administration’s migrant family separation policy.

Plus: We speak to Nathalie Provost, survivor of the mass shooting at Montreal's École Polytechnique, 35 years after the day that changed her life. 

Also: We remember Mary McGee -- who shattered gender barriers by becoming the first American woman to race motorcycles. Haley Watson, who directed the ESPN documentary ‘Motorcycle Mary’, tells us she was a force of nature both on and off the track.

Plus: A retired German Shepherd named Bear springs into action to help rescue an injured man who was hurt and lost in the woods. 

Also: New York Times reporter Corey Kilgannon on the epic manhunt underway in Manhattan.

Plus: King Charles samples kava on his trip to Samoa, sparking hopes the South Pacific intoxicant could one day be legalized. 

Also: A protester in Seoul describes the energy in the crowd as they call for the resignation of South Korea's president for declaring martial law.