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President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi

as his candidate for U.S. Attorney General.

Bondi is an experienced prosecutor and was on Trump's legal team during his first impeachment trial.

His first nominee, former Florida Congressman Matt Gates, withdrew yesterday.

Gates was being investigated by the House Ethics Committee on Sex Trafficking Allegations.

And Pierre Cladio Grisales says his nomination had been troubled.

Republican sources who questioned this nomination predicted this exact outcome to me, since many were sure he wouldn't survive the Senate vetting process.

They said Gates would drop out because he would become a distraction, in turn become a hero for the hard right, and then leverage all of this oxygen for his nomination into a possible run for

Florida governor. His name has been tossed around for that quite a bit. But before then,

he could return to a seat in January because that is a completely new term he was elected to,

and that would force the ethics probe to start again. NPR's Claudia Grisales reporting.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin confirms that Russia fired a medium-range ballistic missile on a Ukrainian military facility yesterday.

As NPR's Charles Mainz reports, Putin says it was a response to Ukraine's long-range missile strikes with Western-made weapons on Russian soil.

Putin said Russia had tested a newly developed hypersonic missile against Ukraine's

military, what he said was a non-nuclear response to recent aggressive Western actions against Russia.

Putin accused the West of both allowing and overseeing long-range missile strikes by Ukraine

inside Russia this week, adding the war in Ukraine, now threatens to become a global conflict. Putin boasted

the new weapon, reforms at speeds invincible to Western air defenses. He also said Russia preferred

a peaceful resolution to the conflict, but was ready to escalate further if necessary. The next move

was up to the U.S. and its allies, said Putin, even as he warned them not to test Russian resolve.

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