day two hundred forty six (13. 962)

With eleven Democrats missing the vote, the US house of congress narrowly blocks the impeachment bid for Hegseth, Republicans loosing their bald majority in January. The GOP elects Ohio congressman Jim Jordan to replace Speaker Johnson as minority whip. Amid ongoing talks between Tehran and Washington, parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that Tel Aviv has redoubled efforts to drag the US into an endless war with Iran. Pezeshkian accuses US and Israeli of environmental crimes at COP31. UN peacekeepers come under fire in Tyre whilst IDF blocks aid from entering flood ravaged Gaza. US treasury secretary Scott Bessent moved out of his DC mansion to a military base after intelligence reveals credible threats on American officials, upset over Operation Economic Outcast. One of Russia’s last independent news outlets, Novaya Gazeta, ceases publication, succumbing to wartime censorship and pressure from Moscow. US supreme court clears the way for construction to begin on a section of the Border Wall through Texas’ pristine Big Bend national park.