Author: Jordan Culver, USA TODAY

This is the 64th smuggling event in the San Diego area since the Oct. 1 start of the fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the president-elect and vice president-elect, were named Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

Adam Cohen, ichthyology collection manager at the University of Texas’ Biodiversity Center, told USA TODAY he believes the fish is actually a koi.

The search for David Simmons and Janae Larson, who have been missing since a mudslide last week in Haines, Alaska, was suspended on Monday.

Emily Bugg and Billy Lewis teamed up with Big Delicious Planet to serve 200 meals to clients of Threshold in Illinois.

Robert Paul Keegan was arrested on a murder charge after Aidan Ellison was found fatally shot in the parking lot of an Oregon hotel on Nov. 23.

In the video, which has been viewed nearly 90,000 times, Dr. Kenneth Remy says, “I hope that the last moments of your life don’t look like this.”

Gov. Doug Burgum had argued the Constitution gave him the right to appoint someone to a state House seat won by David Andahl on Nov. 3.