Jeffries says an incoming Democratic House majority will deny funding for Trump’s deportation efforts while pursuing immigration legislation, a congressional stock trading ban and an impeachment resolution against War Secretary Pete Hegseth.
UFC CEO Dana White unexpectedly took the White House podium, denied having political ambitions and addressed questions about Trump, Joe Biden and Pete Rose after the president said the press secretary idea was only a joke.
Trump said momentum was building toward ending the nine month conflict, while Washington reviewed an Iranian proposal delivered through Qatar and oil prices declined on expectations that military tensions could ease.
Massie’s eight impeachment articles challenge Hegseth’s conduct involving Iran, Yemen, Venezuela, civilian harm protections and military boat strikes, while Hegseth argues that attacks on those operations amount to attacks on the troops who carried them out.
Marine Maj. Scott Laux was removed from the Blue Angels days before the season finale in Pensacola, leaving five jets to perform as the Navy declined to explain which squadron standards the #6 pilot failed to uphold.
The Army has permanently ended live fire training at Makua Military Reservation while preserving cultural access and continuing limited security and fire suppression activities. The service is also reducing its Oahu leasehold footprint by 19,500 acres.
Kongsberg Maritime wants to convert commercial fishing trawlers into unmanned Type 92 submarine hunters, giving the British Royal Navy vessels capable of operating for roughly 60 days near an Arctic route used by Russian submarines.
Japan and the United States are expanding troop education, orientation briefings and police patrols after a Marine’s indictment in an Okinawa murder case, while the island’s governor demands broader changes to the Status of Forces Agreement.