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Walk down any aisle on a train or airplane, you'll find someone staring at a phone playing Candy Crush.

Seems mindless, but is it?

In the state of Maine, education officials think they can make it work for them.

And math classes about probability and more.

Anything that works as the data shows students everywhere are struggling to bring their math scores back up to pre-pandemic levels.

Maddie Smith of Maine Public reports on what that looks like in the classroom.

In Southern California today, the National Weather Service says that heavy rain will continue.

The heaviest will be in the Los Angeles basin with the potential of flash flooding.

In the Sierra Nevada, a prolonged heavy snowfall is underway with snow and strong winds making travel difficult.

I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.

As Southern California continues to get hammered by heavy rains, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has declared a state of emergency.

Steve Futterman has details.

Christmas Eve at the Vatican.

Leo XIV has celebrated his first Christmas Mass as Pope, offering Mass last night at 10 p.m.

local time on Christmas Eve in St.

Peter's Basilica.

The pontiff also planned to celebrate Mass on Christmas Day 12 hours later in the Vatican Basilica, a first for a pope since John Paul II's leadership of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.