House Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort to impeach Pete Hegseth, rejecting allegations that the defense secretary had repeatedly violated the constitution through his handling of the Iran war and other conflicts globally. Top Democrats announced their support for the resolution, but Republicans moved to kill it by referring it to the judiciary committee. Their motion succeeded on Tuesday, by a 211-204 vote, largely along party lines. Massie was the sole Republican to oppose the motion, along with all Democrats.
Many defectors see daughter of North Korea's Kim as heir apparent
SEOUL, South Korea " Until she fled North Korea three years ago, Kim Yumi felt deeply frustrated whenever state TV showed leader Kim Jong Un with his young daughter.
The message, she felt, was clear and worrying: North Korea was laying the groundwork for an eventual hereditary transfer of power, this time to Kim's daughter.
Stephen Miller is an ideologue on a mission to reshape the world. But his appointment has a silver lining for Democrats
It was, as the Guardian's David Smith put it, a "middle finger to millions of American voters".
A clear signal that the president has no intention of spending the remainder of his presidency trying to reach across the aisle and reconcile with his political adversaries.
Rather, he seems intent on burning everything down. And in Miller he has found the perfect arsonist.
Alex Shephard: The early field of GOP presidential candidates is laughably bad -- and they're going to be dealing with the same problems that killed the party in last week's elections. read more
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at a hospital in Los Angeles on Saturday and blocked off the ambulance entrance.
KABC-TV, a Los Angeles TV station, reports that ICE showed up at about midnight at Adventist Health White Memorial Medical Center with a person in custody who needed medical treatment in the emergency room. A hospital spokesperson said federal agents blocked the entrance to the ER for two hours.
Protesters soon showed up to object to the presence of ICE agents at the hospital, and one of the demonstrators, a teenage girl, was reportedly pepper sprayed by agents and needed medical attention.
My dad was afraid he was going to miss the second world war, was turned down at the Army, so at 16 he lied about his age to get into the Air Force.
But the war had ended a few months later as he trained to fly. He then became a Navigator on one of the huge new planes built for the massive number of dangerous flights that were the Berlin Airlift, and flew missions into the city.
Biggest Logistical Flex Of All Time - Berlin Airlift
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Amazing stats on what the US and UK did to save the people of Berlin, and how Russia finally gave up trying to stop it.
See? Now this is a country that DJT could really enjoy running!