The House votes 211-204 to send Thomas Massie’s eight impeachment articles against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to committee, shelving them.
Massie was the only Republican to vote no. The 211 yes votes were 210 Republicans and Kevin Kiley, a California independent, per the House clerk’s roll call. Eighteen members did not vote, 11 of them Democrats.
211 yes210 Republicans, 1 independent
Kevin Kiley, independent
7 more yes than no, below the line
204 no203 Democrats, 1 Republican
Thomas Massie, the only Republican no
18 did not vote11 Democrats, 7 Republicans
- Republican, 218 seats
- Democrat, 214 seats
- Outline: did not vote
Trump called the vote an “EXONERATION” and wrote that “Every single Republican, except Thomas Massie,” voted for Hegseth. Per the clerk’s roll call, 7 Republicans did not vote.
Hours earlier, at his first Pentagon briefing in about six months, Hegseth called the effort a “farce” and a “stunt.” Of the operations, he said, “I would do it again tomorrow.”
The eight articles cover strikes on Iran, Yemen, Venezuela and drug boats, rules on civilian harm, and retaliation against Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. Sending them to the Judiciary Committee shelved the charges without a vote on any of them. Only two Cabinet secretaries have been impeached, William Belknap in 1876 and Alejandro Mayorkas in 2024.
The articles sit in committee unless leaders act. Democrats take control of both chambers on Jan. 3, 2027, and could bring them back.
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Consumer prices rose 0.4% in October, above the 0.3% forecast; core prices rose 0.3% for a third straight month.
Core prices leave out food and energy; the Federal Reserve watches them for lasting inflation. Annualized over those three months, that is 3.7%, the fastest pace this year. The government published no annual rate, because the 2025 shutdown left no October 2025 data.
- September
- October
Gasoline
Energy
Food
All items
Core, without food and energy
Axios estimates the annual rate at about 4%, up from 3.7% in September, by assuming October 2025 prices sat halfway between September’s and November’s.
Fed governor Christopher Waller had said a half-point hike should be considered at the Dec. 8-9 meeting if core prices rose at least 0.3% in October. They did. CME FedWatch put the odds of a December hike near 100%, mostly for a quarter point.
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The Justice Department charges three Iran-backed men in a foiled plot against a British base housing U.S. bombers, allegedly directed from a New York jail.
Prosecutors say Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, already jailed in New York, sent coded messages through family phone calls to two men who allegedly arranged vans loaded with fuel. The vans never reached RAF Fairford. Only al-Saadi is in custody.
The plot, as prosecutors describe it
- Thu., Sept. 24
- On a jail call, al-Saadi allegedly tells relatives to “give him money so we can do it.”
- Sept. 26–27
- Three fuel-laden vans are driven toward the base.
- Sun., Sept. 27
- Five men are detained near the base, a sixth days later. BBC News counts seven arrests.
- Tue., Nov. 10
- The 8-count indictment is unsealed in Manhattan.
The FBI recorded every permitted family call. Al-Saadi’s code word for attacks was “work,” prosecutors say. The indictment ties all three men to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and to Kata’ib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, and to a front group, HAYI, that claimed 18 attacks in Europe this spring, 7 of them in the U.K.
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British police arrest a 41-year-old senior U.S. Army soldier at a NATO headquarters on suspicion of helping Russian intelligence.
Counterterror police arrested him near Gloucester under Britain’s National Security Act 2023, on suspicion of obtaining or disclosing protected information and of assisting Russia’s intelligence service. The law lets police hold him up to 14 days without charge.
A senior NATO official said he was assigned to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps at Imjin Barracks. The FBI and Army Counterintelligence Command worked the case with British police, who say it is not linked to the Iran-related plots against U.S. bases in Britain.
What officials have not said
- His job
- Or what he had access to.
- The clock
- When his 14-day custody clock started.
- The court
- Whether Britain or the U.S. Army will prosecute.
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Russia and Ukraine hold four hours of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, their first since February.
Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, mediated. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the session centered on prisoner exchanges, returning civilians and children, and security guarantees. Three earlier rounds this year ended without a breakthrough.
“They flew to Abu Dhabi. Let them sit there in the hotel.”Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the European officials Russia kept out of the main room
What Europe controls, even outside the room
- Sanctions
- Lifting EU sanctions on Russia takes a unanimous vote of EU governments.
- Frozen assets
- About €210 billion in Russian central-bank assets is frozen in the EU.
- Troops
- 24 of the 35 nations in the European-led coalition had pledged forces to a postwar force as of Nov. 3, per Britain’s defence ministry.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the talks “very productive” but said a deal is not “on the verge of being solved in the next 24 hours.” The night before, Russia fired 162 drones and one ballistic missile at Ukraine, per Ukraine’s air force.
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An international health panel meets this week to decide whether the U.S. has lost its measles-elimination status, after more than 5,000 cases this year.
A Pan American Health Organization commission meets in Washington through Friday, Nov. 13. Experts expect the status the U.S. won in 2000 to be revoked, because genetic data show the virus spreading inside the country again. Losing it carries no penalty, experts told CIDRAP.
2019, the high before 2025
2025, all year
2026, through Nov. 5
Eight people have died of measles this year; four were babies too young to be vaccinated. Nationally, 92.4% of kindergartners got the measles shot in 2026, down from 95.2% in 2020, per the CDC. Herd protection needs about 95%.