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Across the country, thousands of immigrants without legal status are not showing up to their scheduled court appearances fearing arrest.

NPR's Ximena Bastia reports those absences are leading to a rise in deportation orders.

And Piers Jimenez-Bustillo.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is criticizing the U.S.

for its efforts to intercept sanctioned oil tankers off the country's coast.

And then Piers Kerry Kahn reports the Trump administration says the tankers are operating illegally.

Pope Leo says he plans to follow the agenda of his predecessor, Pope Francis, to make the Catholic Church more inclusive.

NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports the pontiff delivered his first Christmas address to cardinals at the Vatican.

Bowen Yang has left Saturday Night Live mid-season.

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While Israel and Hamas continue to negotiate an advancement on the agreed peace process, Israel has approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank.

The government's far-right finance and defense ministers both said the recognition is directly to block the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Settlements in the West Bank are illegal, according to international law.

The U.N.

Secretary General Antonio Guterres has long said that Israel's relentless settlement expansion fuels tension and threatens the viability of a sovereign Palestinian state.

Saudi Arabia and the U.K.

condemn the latest announcement.