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This message comes from Indiana University. Indiana University performs breakthrough research every year, making discoveries that improve human health, combat climate change, and move society forward. More at iu.edu slash forward. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The controversy surrounding President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be Attorney General, former Florida Congressman Matt Gates does not appear I'm Jack Spear. The controversy surrounding President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be attorney general, former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz does not appear to be dying down.

An attorney representing two women who testified before a House committee, revealing what his clients told the panel about Gaetz allegedly attending sex and drug parties. Attorney Joel Leppard says one of the women also testified. She witnessed Gaetz having sex with a minor. MPR's Ryan Lucas reports, as a result, pressure is mounting for the House Ethnic Committee to release its findings. Pressure has been building on that front for a long time now. And that's despite the fact that Gates resigned from Congress after Trump picked him for attorney general, which effectively

ended the committee's investigation. Now, Leopard is speaking out at this point, he says, to protect his clients. He says these investigations have taken a toll on them. Uh, he said his clients are not politically minded people, but they're worried about their own wellbeing and about potentially having to testify about this again. Committee is due to meet Wednesday. As president elect Trump prepares to take office and get in January, he's promising mass

deportations that includes people protected under the deferred action for Childhood Arrivals program appears Sergio Martino Beltran reports. During his first term, Trump attempted to end DACA, but the US Supreme Court blocked him. However, Stephen Miller, Trump's incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, has said the new administration will try again. This has DACA recipients like Karina Cerrato Soto on edge.

She was brought to the country when she was 9 months old in 1990. Now Cerrato Soto and her husband are preparing for the possibility of being deported if the program that has shielded her from removal goes away. But Cerrato Soto says she and the more than 530,000 active DACA recipients who were brought illegally when they were kids are ready to fight for the program. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Dallas. The Biden administration is imposing sanctions on an Israeli settler organization and is speaking out against Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank. President Trump, those appointing officials who support the settlements morphed MPR's Michelle Kellerman.

At the United Nations, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield says that proposals to annex the West Bank or build settlements in Gaza, in her words, sow the seeds of further instability and create new obstacles to the full integration of Israel into the region. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller is announcing new targeted sanctions on several individuals and companies, including Amana, which he says is the largest organization involved in settlement development in the West Bank. That policy could be reversed next year, though. The previous Trump administration did not consider Israeli settlements illegal, as the Biden administration does. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.

On Wall Street, the Dow was down 55 points, the Nasdaq closed up 111 points. You're listening to NPR. The Kremlin is now with a warning to Washington over a decision to allow Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia with longer-range US-supplied missiles. Moscow is saying the decision will stoke the war and will also ratchet up international tensions. The shift adds growing uncertainty in the war, which began in 2022 and tomorrow marks its 1,000th day. Ukraine says Russian missiles struck an area in northern Ukraine, in Odessa in the south, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens more.

US officials have announced Washington will ease restrictions on Ukraine's use of army tactical missile systems or ATTACMs. The decision comes months after months of resistance from the US and other allies over Ukraine using those weapons. At the UN climate conference in Azerbaijan, officials are concerned about the slow pace of negotiations. NPR's Jeff Brady reports the talk center on how wealthy countries will help developing nations as the planet heats up. The first week of negotiations were more technical as countries laid out their starting positions. Now UN climate change secretary Simon Steele says countries need to wrap up that work to reach a successful conclusion.

The bluffing brinksmanship and premeditated playbooks are burning up precious time and running down the goodwill needed for an ambitious package. So let's cut the theatrics and get down to the real business this week. That includes wealthy countries committing money to poorer nations to help them transition to cleaner energy and deal with the impacts of a changing climate. The conference is scheduled to end Friday but could go longer. Jeff Brady, NPR News. Crypto futures prices closed higher, oil selling went 69.16 a barrel.

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