We're going from the last big meeting of the January 6th Committee to what may be the

greatest World Cup final match ever played. It's the 7th from the Washington Post. I'm Jeff Pierre. It's Monday, December 19th.

Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Number one, later today the January 6th Committee will hold its final public

meeting. The House panel will vote on referring former President Donald

Trump for criminal charges.

This will conclude an 18-month examination of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The meeting will proceed the release of the panel's final report.

It's expected to be the most comprehensive story yet. of the

release of the panel's final report. It's expected to be the most comprehensive story yet of the events leading up to the attack.

Today's meeting is set to begin at 1 PM Eastern time.

We'll have live coverage on Washington Post.com.

Number two, nations reached an agreement to slow the loss of nature worldwide. Nearly 200 countries at a UN

conference pledged this morning to protect almost a third of the Earth's land and

oceans as a refuge for wild plants and animals. The agreement is to do this

by the end of the decade. If the nations follow through it could help turn the

tide in an ongoing extinction crisis and to give you a sense of how bad that crisis is right now,

scientists have warned that about a. border could end this week.

The controversial policy known as Title 42 has allowed U.S. border officials to quit This was put in place by the

allowed US border officials to quickly expel asylum seekers

since March of 2020.

This was put in place by the Trump administration at the beginning of the

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