• Kim Kardashian and husband Kanye West announced the birth of their second child, a boy, posting on Twitter, "He's here!"
• Nicholas Brendon, 44, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor, pleaded guilty to a criminal-mischief charge from a Sept. 30 fight in which he was accused of choking his girlfriend, and will not face jail time if he completes drug and alcohol counseling, according to prosecutors in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
• Charlene Storey of Roselle Park, N.J., is stepping down as a city councilman in protest of the council's renaming of an annual event, from "A Tree Lighting" to "A Christmas Tree Lighting," saying the name change favors one religion and "cuts non-Christians out of the loop."
• King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, the world's longest-reigning monarch, observed a quiet 88th birthday, skipping his traditional annual speech and making no public appearances from the Bangkok hospital where he has spent most of the past six years.
• Huang Yurong, who was ranked No. 4 on China's most-wanted list and fled to the U.S. in 2002 after the Chinese government accused her of embezzling funds and taking bribes when she led a provincial highway agency, voluntarily returned home, surrendering to authorities in Beijing's airport.
• Akhtar Mansoor, the new Taliban leader who was reported to have been wounded in a gunfight with another militant commander in Pakistan, denied the incident even happened, saying in a two-minute audio recording that the "baseless claim" is part of the "agenda of the enemy."
• Donald Trump, the GOP presidential candidate, urged supporters in Spencer, Iowa, to make sure they attend the Feb. 1 caucuses, saying that they've "got to go to the caucus" even "if you caught your husband cheating the night before."
• Joanne Snow, 67, an American Airlines flight attendant accused of striking co-workers and federal marshals during a round-trip flight between Charlotte, N.C., and Frankfurt, Germany, can leave North Carolina and go to her New Hampshire home, a U.S. magistrate ordered, but she is not allowed to fly there.
• Skylar Anderson, 20, a specialist in the Vermont National Guard, is the first woman in the U.S. armed forces to be certified as a combat engineer, allowing her to work alongside men on the battlefield.
A Section on 12/06/2015