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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.

NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports on the Pope's inaugural Christmas Eve Mass.

The numbers in the $1.7 billion Powerball lottery have been drawn, but we don't know if anyone has won.

Still, the odds of getting all the numbers right are one in 292 million.

If no one wins the drawing, the jackpot rolls over and expands for Saturday night's drawing.

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I'm Dan Ronan.

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The Justice Department says it may take a few more weeks to finish releasing the investigative files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Congress had set a deadline for last Friday to release all of the records.

NPR's Sam Gringlass reports.

A powerful winter storm is bringing heavy rain and possible flash flooding to Southern California at this hour.

Forecasters are urging holiday revelers to avoid driving right now.

As 2025 comes to a close, a new report on crime in America shows that crime fell significantly in all regions of the country.