Your Morning: Special counsel objects to dismissal of Hunter Biden case

Hannah Kobayashi case: Authorities updated the public Monday evening with the latest details on 30-year-old Maui resident Hannah Kobayashi, who has been the center of a massive search since she vanished in Los Angeles in early November. Kobayashi was seen on security footage crossing the U.S. border on foot into Mexico, alone, with luggage and seemingly unharmed, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The case is now classified as a voluntary missing person case. The latest >

Middle East: President-elect Donald Trump threatened to unleash “hell” in the Middle East if hostages held by Hamas are not released before his inauguration next month. In a post to Truth Social, Trump added: “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!” Trump’s post follows confirmation that American Israeli Omer Neutra, who was believed to be alive and held hostage in Gaza, was killed during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack but that his body has been held captive by Hamas. Read more >

COVID report: A final congressional report on COVID-19 released Monday has determined the virus likely emerged from a lab accident in China and that the U.S. government perpetrated “misinformation” by incorrectly calling the lab leak theory a “conspiracy.” The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s COVID-19 panel, controlled by Republicans, issued its 520-page report two years after its investigation began and ahead of a hearing this week. Full breakdown >

JonBenét Ramsey: Police in Boulder, Colorado, say there are fresh leads in a decades-old cold case and they believe it is possible they will find out who killed six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. The news comes following a recent Netflix documentary that shed light on the case. The latest >

JonBenét Ramsey’s father: John Bennett Ramsey, the father of JonBenét, and Geraldo Rivera, whose 1997 mock trial surrounding the case appeared in the new docuseries, discussed the investigation on “CUOMO” just weeks ahead of the 28th anniversary of her death. Rivera told Ramsey, “I deeply apologize to you for what you and your family have suffered” in reference to his mock trial special, adding that “mock trials and moot courts … are not that unprecedented.” Read more >

Suitcase murder trial: Sarah Boone has been sentenced to life in prison for leaving her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, in a suitcase to die back in 2020. Four years after she was arrested for Torres’ death, Boone was found guilty of second-degree murder in late October after 90 minutes of deliberation. Her lawyer, James Owens, told NewsNation he’d encouraged her to take a plea deal prior to the verdict. Read more >

Holiday crime: An annual study estimates that more than 120 million packages were snatched off American porches last year, resulting in a total loss of nearly $16 billion. See which cities were hit the hardest by porch pirates >