President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Saturday that averts a government shutdown, bringing a final close to days of upheaval after Congress approved a temporary funding plan just past the deadline and refused President-elect Donald Trump’s core debt demands in the package.

Authorities investigated a Saudi doctor with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg that killed five people and injured scores.

Trump said on Saturday he had selected the producer of his long-running reality television show, "The Apprentice," to be his administration’s special envoy to the United Kingdom. The president-elect also announced three more nominations for his new government.