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Murders were down 20 percent.
Other violent crimes, including rape, robbery, aggravated assault, as property crimes also fell, those include vehicle thefts and burglaries.
NPR's criminal justice correspondent Meg Anderson explains why the numbers, especially for murder, are declining.
NPR's Meg Anderson at the Vatican.
Pope Leo celebrated the first Christmas midnight mass as leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
At least five people have been killed, scores injured in a suicide bombing at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria.
According to local officials, the blast struck during evening prayers on Christmas Eve.
NPR's Emmanuel Nkowoto has more.
The cause of Tuesday's explosion and a fire at a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, nursing home near Philadelphia that killed two people and injured others, 20, remains under investigation.
However, utility crews have been called to the facility shortly before the blast because of a report of a smell of natural gas.
One person who died was an employee.
About 120 people who lived there have been now transferred to other nearby care facilities.
On Wednesday, the holiday shortened trading day on Wall Street saw all three stock indexes, the Dow, the Nasdaq, and the S&P, all finish fractionably higher.
The Dow gained six-tenths of a point.
The S&P, three-tenths of a point.