Stunning Republican losses in the midterms could spell the end of Pete Hegseth’s tenure as the secretary of defense. From Vice President JD Vance to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), Hegseth’s own party is setting him up to take the fall for election losses blamed on the U.S. war with Iran. In a rambling post on X on November 4, Vance said the reason the GOP lost was “obvious to almost…
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) has filed multiple articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and is forcing a vote on the measure as soon as this week. Massie has leveled eight separate impeachment charges against Hegseth, accusing him of unlawful war or military actions in Iran, Yemen, and Venezuela; “ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties”…
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US President Donald Trump’s boat-bombing spree continued on Sunday despite condemnation from around the world, claiming four more lives and bringing the death toll from the 13-month campaign to at least 238. Sharing a video of the strike, U.S. Southern Command said on social media late Sunday that “under the direction of SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal…
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The majority of U.S. voters support impeaching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over the Trump administration’s war on Iran, new polling finds. The Economist/YouGov found in a survey conducted September 18 to 21 that 51 percent of registered voters say that Hegseth should be impeached for “starting a war with Iran without authorization by Congress.” The opinion holds a double-digit…
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As the United Nations General Assembly opens in New York, we speak with senior Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who says the Trump administration is seeking to “asphyxiate the people of Cuba into submission.” On Friday, millions in Cuba lost power in what was at least the sixth major blackout since President Trump cut off fuel shipments to the island in January. The fuel blockade comes…
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A UN report has concluded that the United States’s boat strike campaign against supposed drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean has violated international law and “plausibly” amounts to crimes against humanity, a label reserved for the worst human rights violations in global conflicts. The report says that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that the boat strikes…
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