An effort to impeach US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth for waging war on Iran without congressional authorisation has failed on Capitol Hill. A majority of the House of Representatives agreed to refer impeachment articles to a committee - essentially killing the effort introduced by dissident Republican congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky - for now. Earlier in the day, in his first news brieifing from the Pentagon in six months, Hegseth called the impeachment effort a "farce" and "sabotage". The impeachment effort was seen as a long shot as it would have required a number of other Republicans to defy President Donald Trump.
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