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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The House Ethics Committee has released its final report on former Florida Congressman Matt Gates, after looking into sexual misconduct allegations against him.

MPR's Windsor Johnston reports Gates withdrew his name from consideration to be the nation's next

Attorney General last month. The House Ethics Committee concluded that there was substantial evidence that

Gates had violated House rules by engaging in sexual misconduct and illegal drug use.

The panel also accused the Republican of having sex with an underage girl in 2017 in violation of Florida law.

Gates had repeatedly denied the accusations and had filed a last-minute lawsuit to prevent the committee

from releasing its report. NPR's Windsor Johnston. Luigi Mangione, the man accused of

fatally shooting. United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson has pleaded not guilty to state murder and

terror charges that are running parallel to the federal charges against him.

Manhattan DA formally charged Mangione last week with multiple counts of murder, including

murder as an act of terrorism. President Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 inmates who are

on federal death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole. And Burr's Deeprevron reports it's a major move against capital punishment in the U.S.

Biden says his conscience and his experience as a former public defender and his time in elected

office led him to commute the sentences of the 37 men.

But there are three men who will remain on federal death row who were involved in cases of terrorism and hate-fueled mass murder, like Dylan Roof, who killed several people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Biden said he sympathizes with the victims of the crimes committed by those on death row, but he cited President-elect Donald Trump as a reason he took this action. Biden put a

moratorium on federal executions in 2021, but Trump, who had a high execution rate in his first

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