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The House Ethics Committee was deadlocked about whether to release its report on Trump's

Attorney General nominee Matt Gates.

NPR's Deidre Walsh reports on the debate about allegations of sex trafficking by the former

House Republican.

House Ethics Committee

Chairman Michael Guest told reporters after a closed-door meeting about their probe. At this point,

there has been no agreement to release the report. The Ethics Panel investigated Gates for

allegations of paying for sex, including with the minor and doing illegal drugs. He resigned his seat just before the committee was

set to consider its report. The top Democrat on the panel, Congresswoman Susan Wilde, said after

guest spoke to reporters, she wanted to clarify there was a vote. No member crossed party lines and

there was no consensus. The members did agree to meet again on December 5th.

Gates, who insists he's done nothing wrong, spent the day meeting with Republican members of the

Senate Judiciary Panel, who will lead the confirmation process. Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, the Capitol.

New data show that about one in eight public school students in New York City did not have a permanent housing facility within the past year.

NPR's Windsor-Johnston reports the city struggling to ease the ongoing housing crisis, a problem that did not begin with the current influx of migrants.

State data show more than 200,000 migrants have come to New York City since 2022, with the majority, arriving from Latin America.

Christine Quinn is the CEO of Wynn, the city's largest operator of homeless shelters.

This number is not being driven exclusively by the number of migrants who have come into New York City.

I think it's easy to almost write it off as that.

A portion of this number is about the number of migrants, maybe 20%.

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