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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The Justice Department has started its release

of files related to the life and death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. NPR is reviewing

the website the department created to make the documents publicly available. The site shows a

message to visitors that they are waiting in line. Once

inside, it includes documents broken into court records, DOJ disclosures, FOIA records, and house

disclosures. The DOJ says several hundreds of thousands of pages would be released today,

with more to follow. Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noem, is suspending the Green Card lottery program.

She says that program allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the U.S.

NPR's Jasmine Garst reports.

The Green Card Lottery Program is intended to admit individuals from countries that have a low enough level of immigration to the

U.S. suspected shooter Claudio Nevis Valenti was a Portuguese national who initially entered the

U.S. on a student visa in 2000 and became a permanent resident in 2017. Nearly 20 million people

applied for the 2025 visa lottery and more than 130,000 were selected, including spouses of the winners.

In November, an Afghan man was identified as the suspected gunmen in a fatal attack on National Guard members,

which prompted the Trump administration to impose rules against immigration from

Afghanistan and other countries.

Jasmine Garst, NPR News.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says rebuilding Gaza is a, quote, long-term project, some of which

will take years.

But he says the administration is planning to announce a board of peace soon and try to get an

international force to Gaza, as NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports. In a wide-ranging end-of-year news

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