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Pope Leo has said that 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.

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stocks closed higher on a holiday-shortened day of trading.

The S&P 500 rose three-tenths of a percent, adding 22 points to close at 6,932.

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The Justice Department says it's having to sift through more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.

The DOJ announced on this Christmas Eve that the FBI and federal prosecutors in Manhattan have uncovered more than a million additional documents and that it could take a few more weeks to make the legally required redactions.

NPR's Ashley Lopez reports that many of the documents that have been released so far are heavily redacted,

and some weren't done properly.

Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot two people in Glen Burnie, Maryland today.

Scott Macione from member station WYPR has more.

In a social media post, the Homeland Security Department says the two people who were shot were in the country illegally.

Nearly a month after elections were held, Honduras' electoral commission has declared a U.S.-backed candidate the winner.

The candidate who came in second says that declaration is illegal, as NPR's Eder Peralta reports.

I don't accept it.

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Raw oysters have been linked to an ongoing food poisoning outbreak.