The House has voted to sideline an impeachment resolution against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The chamber voted 211-204 in favor of tabling the resolution. Outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who introduced the resolution, was the only Republican to vote against sending it back to committee, which effectively killed it.
The resolution held that Hegseth waged an unlawful war against Iran, ignored laws designed to “minimize civilian casualties” and unlawfully killed suspected drug traffickers.
The impeachment threat will likely follow Hegseth.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has expressed support for the impeachment of Hegseth and will have ample votes to pursue it once the next Congress convenes in January.
House Republicans have elected Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan to be their leader as they transition to the minority in the next Congress.
Jordan won the vote over current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, 106-73. The race pitted Jordan, who rose to prominence as an ally of the tea party movement, against Scalise, who was known for brokering agreements between party factions.
In brief remarks after his election, Jordan said Republicans were ready to counter the new Democratic majority. House Speaker Mike Johnson did not run.
The first round of trilateral discussions among Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. in Abu Dhabi concluded with cautious optimism despite no apparent diplomatic breakthrough.
Discussions ended Tuesday afternoon after 4½ hours. Representatives are expected back for more talks Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who didn’t attend the talks, said the meeting was “constructive and quite substantive” and thanked the U.S. for organizing the discussion.
Most of the principals from the meeting — Jared Kushner, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service head Rustem Umerov and Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky —didn’t publicly comment on the talks.
A House committee that conducted a months-long investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has released a final report accusing the federal government of mishandling the case and calling for further Justice Department investigations.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is calling on the department to reinterview former Epstein associate and sexual assault victim Sarah Kellen. She told the committee in a closed-door deposition she had been sexually assaulted by former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine.
Comer also called for changes in the law that would allow sexual assault survivors to speak publicly even if they signed nondisclosure agreements in financial settlements with their abusers.
House Democrats, who will take control of the committee in January, called the newly released report “partisan” and announced the Epstein investigation in Congress was “just getting started.”
And finally … Doctors are warning against treating GLP-1 medications prescribed for weight loss and Type 2 diabetes as a “miracle drug” for various ailments.
Physicians, analysts and patients introduced the label in sources such as Fortune, the Motley Fool and an Indiana University bioethics blog.
Clinical trials are underway to study drugmakers’ claims that GLP-1s could help cure alcoholism, slow aging and eliminate opioid addiction. Other trials seek are assessing how GLP-1s affect arthritis, depression, schizophrenia, psoriasis and Parkinson’s disease.
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