Today is Friday, December 19. We'll tell you how the manhunt for a mass shooter finally ended and how

investigators now say he kept killing while they were searching for him. Also, why a judge has now

been convicted of a felony in an immigration case and how the Trump administration is effectively

ending transgender care for minors. Plus, historic changes to America's marijuana rules,

a conclusion to the years-long

TikTok saga, and which college football teams are competing this weekend for a chance at

playoff glory. Those stories and even more news to know coming up.

Welcome to The Newsworthy, all the day's news in less than 15 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy.

Thanks so much for being here. Let's do this.

Investigators finally tracked down the man suspected in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University and linked him to another murder in a different state.

Remember, the Rhode Island campus shooting left two students dead

and nine others injured. Then two days later, authorities say the same man killed an MIT professor

in his Massachusetts home. And yesterday, they found out the suspect had taken his own life.

Investigators say their break in the case came from an anonymous Reddit post, as well as

details from a custodian at Brown. At this point,

police still haven't said what his motivations were for the back-to-back shootings, but they did say

he acted alone. He was a former Brown graduate student who went to the school about 25 years ago,

and back in the 90s, he apparently studied in the same academic program in Portugal as the MIT

professor.

The suspected killer was a Portuguese national who came to the U.S. through the diversity lottery

immigrant visa program in 2017 and was granted a green card.

Now Homeland Security Secretary Christine Ome says the U.S. will be pausing that program.

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