• "George Santos, the New York Republican congressman whose tapestry of lies and schemes made him a figure of national ridicule and the subject of a 23-count federal indictment, was expelled from the House (December 1) after a decisive bipartisan vote by his peers," The New York Times reported December 2. "He is the first person to be expelled from the House without first being convicted of a federal crime or supporting the Confederacy."
• Manuel Rocha, a former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia and State Department official, was accused of spying for Cuba in a federal complaint charging him with a "clandestine intelligence-gathering mission against the United States." — The New York Times, December 5, 2023
• Lionel Messi was named "Athlete of the Year" by Time in its December 25 issue citing him "the greatest living soccer player, arguably the best to ever play the world's most popular game."
• Actress Xochiti Gomez and her professional dance partner Val Chmerkovskiy won the Mirrorball Trophy in season 32 of "Dancing with the Stars." Gomez played America Chavez in "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness." — Yahoo News, December 6, 2023
• "The U.S. Soccer Federation and Mexico Football Federation submitted a joint bid (December 8) to host the 2027 Women's World Cup projecting $3 billion in revenue, competing against a proposal from Brazil and a joint Germany-Netherlands-Belgium plan." — The Associated Press, December 9, 2023
• "Chileans (December 16) rejected a new conservative constitution to replace its current text that dates back to the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship." — Reuters, December 17, 2023
• Venezuelans voted "to make the disputed oil-rich Essequibo region a state, appearing to set up a clash with Guyana, which has long claimed the same region in a showdown of South American countries." — United Press International, December 4, 2023