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The declaration will free up resources for first responders and other emergency teams.

Across the region, the devastating impact of the downpours fueled by atmospheric rivers are being felt.

Altadena resident Michael Burdick says he's trying to prepare for flooding.

The high water has made portions of Interstate 5 and the Ventura Freedway in the Los Angeles area impassable.

An NPR analysis of immigration court records showed an increase in people being ordered deported because they did not show up for their appointments.

As NPR's Ximena Bustillo reports, fears of arrest and logistical challenge caused these no-shows.

President Trump is spending some of the evening tracking Santa Claus with the help of NORAD, the North American Defense Command, that tracks Santa's location.

The president answered calls from children who are wondering where Santa is.

Here's NPR's Deepa Shivaran.

The decision last week to add President Trump's name to the Kennedy Center in Washington continues to have repercussions.

Wednesday, the longtime host of the Christmas Eve jazz performance said he was canceling his concert to protest the name change.

This is NPR.

ICE agents on Wednesday shot a man in suburban Baltimore.

Another person was injured after a traffic stop turned violent.

ICE says as they approached a van, the driver of the vehicle attempted to run over officers.

Shots were fired.

The driver was struck as second person suffered minor injuries.

The Department of Homeland Security says the driver of the van was in the U.S.

illegally.

Pope Leo has said to reject the poor or strangers amounts to a rejection of God himself.