The New York Times: Μια έκθεση δεοντολογίας για τον Matt Gaetz – Mια έρευνα της Επιτροπής Δεοντολογίας της Βουλής για τον Matt Gaetz – Mια ενημέρωση για τις προσπάθειες απελευθέρωσης των ομήρων που κρατούνται στη Γάζα – Μια εποχή ανόητων αυτοκόλλητων προφυλακτήρων – Μια εκρηκτική αναφορά για τον Matt Gaetz – Ο Νετανιάχου σηματοδότησε πρόοδο σε μια συμφωνία ομήρων – Ο ηγέτης της Σλοβακίας συναντήθηκε με τον Πούτιν – Έγκλημα: Ο Λουίτζι Μαντζιόνε, ο οποίος κατηγορείται για τη δολοφονία του διευθύνοντος συμβούλου της United Health care, δήλωσε αθώος στην πρώτη του εμφάνιση στο δικαστήριο στη Νέα Υόρκη
Matt Gaetz has denied wrongdoing. Anna Watts for The New York Times
An explosive report on Matt Gaetz
The House Ethics Committee said that its lengthy investigation into Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump’s onetime pick for attorney general, found that he had regularly paid for sex and used illegal drugs. He was also accused of having paid for sexual relations in 2017 with a 17-year-old girl.
The report, released yesterday, concluded that Gaetz’s actions violated state sexual misconduct laws in Florida, which Gaetz formerly represented in Congress.
The laws include Florida’s statutory rape law, though the report did not find conclusive evidence that he had violated federal sex trafficking laws. It was released weeks after Gaetz withdrew from consideration to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer. Read the main takeaways here.
Gaetz has denied wrongdoing. He mounted a last-ditch effort to block the report’s release yesterday, filing an emergency motion in Federal District Court, but he was notified that he had filed it improperly. On social media, he argued that he was being unfairly maligned by a “sham witch-hunt report.”
“Don’t lecture me,” Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israeli lawmakers on Monday. Pool photo by Debbie Hill
Netanyahu signaled progress on a hostage deal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said that “some progress” was being made toward a deal with Hamas to release the hostages who have been held captive in Gaza for more than a year, but he dismissed pressure to act faster. “I don’t know how long it will take,” he told lawmakers in Parliament.
The Israeli leader did not provide any details about the negotiations to secure the release of about 100 people who were taken on Oct. 7, 2023, about a third of whom are believed to be dead, according to the Israeli authorities. In exchange for their release, a number of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel would be freed, according to the outlines of the deal.
Netanyahu’s pledge to secure the hostages’ release by any means necessary did little to quell the anger of opposition lawmakers, many of whom shouted over him and some of whom were ejected during the address.
Syria:Top Arab diplomats visited Damascus, the capital, in the latest international diplomatic overture to the rebel coalition running the country.
Robert Fico, left, with Vladimir Putin. Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, via Reuters
Slovakia’s leader met with Putin
Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin on natural gas supplies and the conflict in Ukraine. A fixture of Slovak politics for decades, Fico has drifted steadily to the populist right. He returned to power for a third stint as prime minister after narrowly winning a 2023 election.
The meeting was a blow to the E.U., which has struggled to keep a united front against Russia over the war in Ukraine. This year, Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, also visited Moscow to meet with Putin, breaking with E.U. policy.
Ukraine: Sending roughly 10,000 North Korean troops to aid Russia on the battlefield was Kim Jong-un’s decision, not the result of a Kremlin request, U.S. officials said.
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Lives lived: Alfa Anderson, who sang the famous refrain, “Le freak, c’est chic,” on one of disco’s biggest hits, died at 78.
Gone are the days of “Coexist” or “Free Tibet”: Bumper stickers are getting weirder and more ironic. The company Frog Mustard is among the most prolific creators of absurd bumper stickers, including ones that read “On my way to get a lobotomy” and “I’m pro-sexualizing the green M&M and I vote!”
“Bumper stickers used to actually say something about the person,” said Elizabeth Goodspeed, a graphic designer. Now, she said, “they don’t tell me anything about the person beyond that they are on the internet.”
