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November 11: Iran-Linked Threats Against U.S. Officials and Hegseth Impeachment Vote
Iran-linked threats
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved to a military base after Iranian threats against his life, the New York Times reports. The Times says U.S. officials concluded in recent weeks that Iranian plotting against current and former American officials had reached a more advanced stage, based partly on intelligence about threats to Bessent.
Separately, prosecutors have indicted three Iranian-backed operatives accused of involvement in nearly twenty terrorist attacks and attempted attacks in Europe and the United States.
In Congress
The House has tabled an effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, effectively ending it for this Congress. President Trump welcomed the outcome and praised Hegseth. House Republicans also elected Jim Jordan as their next leader, while Senate Republicans re-elected John Thune to lead their caucus.
In the national House vote count, Democrats lead Republicans by thirteen and a half percentage points with more than 116 million votes counted, according to the Cook Political Report. The report says that is the largest margin for either party since 1974.
Child killed in Matamoros
A seven-year-old girl with U.S. and Mexican citizenship was shot in the head and killed during a security operation in Matamoros. Prosecutors have linked the bullet to a weapon aboard a Mexican State Guard helicopter. As of November tenth, no State Guard personnel had been arrested in connection with her death.
Nvidia security warning
Axios reports that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick received a highly classified memo warning about Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, whom the report describes as a suspected Chinese spy. Lutnick's department oversees restrictions on sensitive U.S. technology and cleared advanced Nvidia chip sales to China-affiliated entities.
Household hardship in the UK
The debt charity Christians Against Poverty says thirteen million UK adults, about one in four, lack enough income to cover essential bills. The charity's figures also put the number going without food at least once a week at 8.3 million, and those going without gas or electricity that often at 6.8 million.
South Sudan's oil exports
South Sudan is seeking investment in fourteen oil exploration blocks and aims to raise production from roughly 170,000 barrels a day to 230,000. But exporting that oil to the Red Sea requires payments to both Sudan's army and its rival, the paramilitary RSF, amid Sudan's civil war.
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