THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• We're hearing that the whole "child dies in the arms of Santa Claus" story may have been a hoax. 
• That 18-year-old Muslim college student in New York, who said she was attacked on the subway by men chanting, 'Trump! Trump! Trump!' has been arrested for making the whole thing up. Security tape on the subway didn't back up her story. 
• A hospital in northern Italy said Wednesday it had achieved a world first by successfully transplanting a kidney in the place of the spleen in a six-year-old girl. 
• Yahoo! has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts. 
• DWTS judge Carrie Ann Inaba and former "General Hospital" actor Robb Derringer are engaged. 
• So far, the movie awards have done a lot of snubbing in their nominations for Tom Hanks and his movie, "Sully." 
• Dolly Parton's fundraiser for the Tennessee fire victims the other night has raised just under $9 million so far. 
• There's a new study that says white wine is being linked to an increase in the risk of melanoma. 
• After Donald Trump met with Kanye West on Tuesday in Trump Tower, he gave the rapper a signed copy of Trump's "Person of the Year" Time magazine cover, with the message, "To Kanye, you are a great friend." 
• An investigation shows that at least 368 gymnasts have alleged some form of sexual abuse at the hands of their coaches, gym owners and other adults working in gymnastics over the past 20 years. 
• 103-million Americans are planning to travel this holiday season. That's an all-time record. 
• The Cleveland Cavaliers are planning a $140 million renovation of the Quicken Loans Arena. 
• A report says 1 in 25 Americans has faced or been threatened with "revenge porn." 
• Bernard Fox, who played "witch doctor" Dr. Bombay on the old "Bewitched" TV series has died of heart failure; he was 89. 
• Jimmy Kimmel pulled back the curtain on the Oscars a bit, saying he'll receive $15,000 to host the show next February. 
• There's a new NBA labor agreement, so there will not be a strike. 
• After two seasons, Netflix has canceled its series "Marco Polo." 
• Adam Klein, the winner of the latest round of "Survivor," made it home after filming the show to his mother, who was dying of lung cancer. She passed away an hour after he got home. 
• Someone is running around Minnesota and sticking $100 bills into Salvation Army kettles. $96,000 so far. 
• The return of "The Honeymooners?" CBS is said to be working on a reboot of the show.