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 told a crowd of his supporters on Tuesday that his illegal war of choice in Iran will end “whenever I want it to” as the conflict’s official price tag reportedly jumped to $47 billion — a figure that independent analysts believe to be a dramatic underestimate. “It can be over whenever I want it to be over,” Trump said of the historically unpopular war during a rally…
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Democrats on Tuesday won control of both houses of Congress and a decisive mandate to put a check on Donald Trump’s tumultuous presidency, a victory propelled by voter anger over high prices, corruption and the unchecked spread of data centers. Some of the same concerns helped to lift Democrats to victories in statehouses, where they gained a majority of the country’s governorships for the…
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On Monday night, the United States conducted a series of strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island, the latest in a number of strikes over the past several weeks that have previously gone unreported. Qeshm Island reportedly houses a large underground missile site and a naval base. It also has a desalination plant, which may be considered a civilian target rather than a military one.
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A high-ranking member of the Democratic congressional conference who previously had reservations about the idea of impeaching President Donald Trump has changed his mind, describing impeachment as imperative should Democrats win control of one or both houses in the midterm elections. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington) declined to commit to the idea of impeachment back in May…
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