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From CNN, I'm Afoma DK, for the five things you need to know for Wednesday, November 20th.

Today, Republicans in the House Ethics Committee voted to protect Matt Gates during a meeting on whether to release its final report related to allegations of sexual misconduct, which Gates has denied. That's according to a person familiar.

Earlier, the committee's chairman told CNN he had reservations about releasing the report,

saying it's not done and in the quote, final review stages.

CNN's Manu Raju is on Capitol Hill.

This report detailing, going into allegations of sexual misconduct,

elicit drug use by the former congressman. That report, of course, had been part of a bipartisan probe for the past two years.

In its final stages, but it has not been released to the public yet.

Why? Because Gates abruptly resigned as a House member last week in the aftermath of his selection as Attorney General.

And after two hours of debate behind closed doors, and as Democrats are demanding this report,

what guests are saying is that there was not an agreement from the two sides to put this out publicly.

The U.S. has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that called for an immediate,

unconditional, and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

U.S. officials argued that the resolution failed to condition the ceasefire on the release

of hostages and condemn Hamas for its October 7th terrorist attack.

A senior U.S. official said the U.S. put forward two proposals to adjust the language,

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