Rep. Thomas Massie filed a privileged resolution Monday carrying eight articles of impeachment against War Secretary Pete Hegseth, including charges of waging war on Iran without congressional authorization and carrying out extrajudicial killings. The GOP-run House is expected to vote as soon as midweek, and incoming Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has declared himself a "hard yes." Hegseth holds his first Pentagon press briefing since May this morning to push back.
Shareholders sued Nvidia and CEO Jensen Huang on Monday, alleging the company hid national-security risks tied to Huang's admitted affair with a Singapore-based executive suspected of working for Chinese intelligence. President Trump confirmed the FBI is looking into the matter but called Huang "a very honorable man" who had "absolutely no idea" who he was dealing with. Nvidia's board says it has no reason to believe company secrets were compromised.
Regulators announced Monday that every manufacturer of GLP-1 weight-loss and diabetes medications must add a label warning about NAION, a rare optic-nerve condition that can cause irreversible vision loss. The FDA reached the decision after reviewing clinical trials, animal studies, and post-approval safety reports. Cases typically affect one eye at a time.
Pressed Monday about Americans squeezed by cost of living, Trump pointed to the record stock market and his own net worth, telling critics they should have owned equities. The remark lands with annual inflation still running well above the Fed's 2 percent target even as third-quarter growth hit 3.4 percent. Affordability was the top issue in last week's midterms, which went badly for Republicans.
Trilateral negotiations began Tuesday in the UAE capital, the first three-way sitting since the Geneva round collapsed without agreement in February. American, British, French, German, Italian, NATO, and EU Commission officials met separately beforehand to align. The session runs two days; Zelenskyy is simultaneously in Denmark courting Nordic leaders for more military support.
Two KC-135 refueling tankers left RAF Mildenhall for Spangdahlem in Germany on Monday, with additional aircraft dispersed to other European bases, after intelligence flagged an Iran-linked threat. It follows the earlier withdrawal of bombers from RAF Fairford and Spain's refusal to allow Iran-related operations through Rota and Morón. Trump insisted Iran is "militarily effectively over" and predicted the conflict ends soon.
Washington suspended its port fees on Chinese-linked vessels for another two months starting November 9, and Beijing matched the move the same day. The extension clears friction ahead of an expected Trump-Xi meeting. Shipping lines get a reprieve from retaliatory charges that had been inflating transpacific freight costs.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory spotted 2026 ED138, an object up to 930 miles across sitting roughly 4.3 billion miles from the sun. It evaded earlier telescopes because it sat against a dense star field near the Milky Way's plane. If confirmed, it joins the small club of dwarf planets in the outer solar system.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, and six other aerospace firms can now compete for up to $10 billion in deals to haul cargo and infrastructure to the Moon's south pole for a permanent base. Blue Origin already landed a $94 million contract to deliver NASA's nuclear-powered PROMISE rover. NASA is also recruiting a new astronaut class, with applications due December 3.
Researchers drilling at the boat-shaped Durupinar formation in eastern Turkey recovered darkened, cracked wood fragments from roughly 30 feet down, some showing grain and growth rings. Samples have been sent for carbon-14 dating and species identification, with hundreds of soil cores still in the lab. Earlier testing found 38 percent more potassium inside the formation, consistent with wood ash.
