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Hegseth labels impeachment push a policy dispute, but do lawmakers’ allegations rise to high crimes?
War Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed back against an impeachment effort Tuesday, accusing lawmakers of trying to turn disagreements over President Donald Trump’s military policies into impeachable offenses.
Congress is preparing to vote on eight articles alleging the Pentagon chief violated federal law and abused his authority.
«One disgruntled congressman wants to shred it over policy disagreements. That’s what it is: policy disagreements, not high crimes, not misdemeanors, not treason, not bribery, not the kinds of offenses the founders intended when they wrote the impeachment clause,» Hegseth said at a Pentagon press conference Tuesday morning.
«The proper remedy for a policy disagreement, it’s legislation, it’s debate, it’s the next presidential election,» he added.
But the impeachment resolution introduced Monday by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., goes beyond objections to the administration’s military strategy. It alleges that Hegseth violated congressional war powers, authorized unlawful military operations and retaliated against a sitting senator for exercising his constitutional rights.
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The clash puts the limits of impeachment at the center of a growing fight over Trump’s national security agenda, testing whether lawmakers can make a constitutional case for removing Hegseth or are just using impeachment to challenge military and policy decisions they oppose.
Massie’s eight articles center on several of the Trump administration’s most controversial national security decisions, with three accusing Hegseth of violating the War Powers Resolution during the war against Iran.
The outgoing Kentucky Republican alleges that Hegseth initiated hostilities without congressional authorization, continued military operations after Congress directed their termination and disregarded statutory deadlines requiring the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
Other articles accuse Hegseth of failing to comply with laws intended to minimize civilian casualties, including in connection with a strike on an Iranian school, and conducting unlawful maritime strikes against suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean.
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The resolution also alleges that Hegseth retaliated against Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., over a video urging service members to refuse unlawful orders, and unlawfully directed military operations in Yemen and the capture of former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.
Massie has rejected the suggestion that the impeachment effort is simply a referendum on Hegseth’s job performance or the administration’s military policies.
«The question is whether he committed impeachable acts,» Massie wrote on X Monday. «And the answer is yes, eight times.»
Constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley largely agreed that the impeachment effort was on shaky ground, arguing that six of Massie’s eight articles should be dismissed outright.
«In my view, six of the eight articles should be nonstarters, including the Iranian articles,» Turley wrote on X Tuesday.
Turley acknowledged that Congress has a legitimate constitutional interest in asserting its war powers, but argued that Massie was attempting to use impeachment to settle a longstanding dispute over presidential authority. Presidents of both parties, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have claimed broad authority to launch military operations without congressional approval, he noted.
«Massie is not going to ‘litigate’ the matter through impeachments,» Turley wrote, arguing that Trump was exercising authority long claimed by his predecessors.
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Vice President JD Vance, however, argued Tuesday that lawmakers were using impeachment as a substitute for exercising their legislative powers.
«Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not,» Vance wrote on X.
«Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they’re going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth,» he continued.
Vance suggested the effort was driven less by the war with Iran than by opposition to Hegseth’s broader changes at the Pentagon, including shifting U.S. forces away from Europe and Ukraine and reorganizing the military’s senior leadership.
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«This isn’t about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon,» Vance wrote.
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Turley dismissed the article of impeachment concerning Maduro’s capture, pointing to court precedent involving the U.S. seizure of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega.
But Turley drew a distinction between those disputes over executive authority and two allegations he considered more serious: the maritime strikes against suspected drug traffickers and Hegseth’s treatment of Sen. Mark Kelly.
«The ‘double tap’ allegation would be a war crime, if true,» Turley wrote, noting that Trump and Hegseth have denied issuing such orders.
The effort to punish Kelly over a video urging troops to refuse unlawful orders also raised serious questions about a sitting senator’s free speech rights and potential undue command influence, Turley argued.
Still, he stopped short of concluding that either allegation met the constitutional threshold for impeachment, saying more evidence was needed.
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«I will be looking for the underlying evidence on those two articles,» he wrote, describing both as potentially problematic but difficult to establish as «high crimes and misdemeanors.»
The Constitution authorizes impeachment for treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, a standard that does not require proof of a criminal offense. Congress has historically treated serious abuses of official power as potential grounds for impeachment, though the precise boundaries remain contested.
That distinction complicates the argument that the allegations can be dismissed simply because they involve military policy. Lawmakers can disagree with a defense secretary’s decisions without those disagreements constituting impeachable misconduct, but allegations that an official knowingly violated the law or abused the powers of his office present a different constitutional question.
Hegseth, meanwhile, has maintained that the operations cited in the resolution were lawful and directed by the president.
«I stand behind every one of these operations. I was proud to execute them, and I would do it again tomorrow,» Hegseth said Tuesday.
President Trump also rallied behind his defense secretary following the press conference, praising his performance and attacking Massie, who lost his Republican primary earlier this year.
«In just under two years, Secretary Hegseth has worked side-by-side with President Trump to restore American power on the world stage, build the strongest military in generations, and instill a warrior ethos at the Pentagon. President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have taken bold, necessary action to deny the Iranian regime the ability to develop a nuclear weapon, bring narco-terrorist Nicolás Maduro to American justice, and defend our homeland from dangerous terrorists and cartels – saving American lives,» White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told Digital.
«This spectacle only proves what we’ve known all along: Thomas Massie and the Democrats are far more interested in playing political games than working to improve the lives of the American people,» Wales added.
Trump Cabinet officials rallied behind Hegseth, with Collins, Burgum, Rollins, Mullin and Turner posting messages of support on social media. Rubio and Blanche also defended Hegseth publicly.
Rubio said he carried out Trump’s orders «quite effectively» and Blanche rejected claims that he had done anything illegal or wrong.
The House is expected to vote Tuesday evening on whether to advance Massie’s impeachment resolution. Impeachment would require a simple majority in the House, but removing Hegseth from office would require conviction by a two-thirds majority in the Senate.
The vote will test whether lawmakers view the allegations as grounds for impeachment or a dispute better addressed through Congress’s legislative and oversight powers.
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Democrats accused of ‘No Kings’ hypocrisy over push to change voter-approved trans sports measures
Voters in two Democratic strongholds approved restrictions on transgender participation in girls’ sports last week, delivering rare Republican victories amid a blue wave. But Democratic officials are already discussing ways to change the measures, drawing accusations of hypocrisy from Republicans who point to their support for the «No Kings» movement.
Colorado Gov.-elect Philip Weiser, who also criticized a separate ballot measure restricting gender-related surgeries for minors, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal , D-Wash., both raised objections to the measures approved in their respective states.
At his first post-election news conference, he suggested Colorado’s Democratic-controlled legislature could revisit the voter-approved measures, saying that it is «statutory … and a natural and I believe appropriate role for the legislature to say ‘what are the adjustments that need to be added.»
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Colorado voters approved ballot measures increasing penalties for fentanyl-related offenses, restricting transgender athletes from competing in sports designated for the opposite biological sex and prohibiting gender-related surgeries for minors. The measures passed even as Democrats swept into power across the state.
«I don’t believe it would be acceptable to Colorado to have every student athlete to have to go through full-body examinations or other invasions of privacy,» Weiser added of the sports-related referendum, according to the Denver Post.
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Weiser did not respond to a request for comment.
Republicans in suburban Denver criticized the governor-elect, dubbing him «King Phil I» and characterizing his response as «know[ing] better than Colorado voters in a healthy democracy.»
«But before the ink on the ballots is even dry, Governor-elect Phil Weiser is already signaling that the vote of the people is merely a ‘suggestion’. With Coloradans approving ballot measures to crack down on fentanyl and protect youth sports and children, Weiser walked up to the podium on Wednesday and essentially declared that the will of the majority needs to pass his personal vibe check first,» the Adams County Republican Party said in a statement.
Republicans characterized Weiser’s position as «you voted for it, but I don’t like it…»
«No Kings,» the Adams Republicans added, invoking the protest movement that Weiser has supported through participation in «No Kings» protests. The movement’s demonstrations have criticized President Donald Trump over what organizers characterize as authoritarian conduct.
The Colorado House Republican caucus echoed the sentiment, adding in a statement: «If the Democrats truly believe there should be ‘No Kings’ in America, it is time they take their own advice.»
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Meanwhile, in Washington State, Jayapal condemned a similar measure approved by voters.
Initiative 638 prohibits students defined as «biologically male» from competing in girls’ K-12 school sports and requires students seeking to participate on girls’ teams to provide verification of their biological sex from a health care provider. The measure passed with approximately 56% support in the reliably Democratic state.
Following the election results, multiple local news outlets reported that Jayapal pledged to «take our state back» after voters approved the initiative.
«We’re going to start planning for how we overturn these bad initiatives and how we go back to loving everyone with gender inclusivity the way we have for decades,» she said, according to several reports.
Jayapal did not respond to a request for comment.
Critics also pointed to Jayapal’s past support for «No Kings» protests, accusing her of contradicting her own rhetoric about respecting the will of voters.
One critic highlighted a November 2025 social media post in which Jayapal wrote: «We have democracy for a reason. America doesn’t belong to kings it belongs to the people and we’re going to keep it that way.»
«Rep. Jayapal, this you?» they asked.
Jayapal also faced previous criticism over her support for the «No Kings» movement after praising remarks by Britain’s King Charles III during his visit to the United States.
Washington Democratic Party Chair Shasti Conrad signaled support for a legal challenge, calling the ballot measure «unconstitutional on its face» and indicating the party would «support [for] organizations planning to challenge it in court.»
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Under Washington’s Constitution, lawmakers cannot repeal a voter-approved initiative during its first two years but can amend it with a two-thirds vote in each legislative chamber. After two years, the legislature can amend or repeal the measure with a simple majority.
The controversy leaves Democrats in both states confronting a similar political dilemma: whether to preserve the restrictions voters approved or pursue changes through the legislative and judicial processes available to them.
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Desde el 2020 las cláusulas abusivas en contra de las empresas inmobiliarias concentran quejas por USD 120 millones en Panamá
La Autoridad de Protección al Consumidor y Defensa de la Competencia (Acodeco) reveló que las cláusulas abusivas son el principal motivo de queja contra las empresas inmobiliarias en Panamá.
Esa categoría concentra 893 reclamaciones y un monto de USD 120 millones, cifra que equivale a más de la mitad de todo lo denunciado en el sector.
El dato surge del informe estadístico de la entidad, que contabilizó 3.496 quejas contra empresas inmobiliarias entre enero de 2020 y septiembre de 2026. El monto acumulado de esos reclamos asciende a USD 212.3 millones
Después de las cláusulas abusivas, la devolución de dinero ocupa el segundo lugar en cantidad de casos.
La Acodeco registró 831 quejas por este motivo, con un monto de USD 12.1 millones.
Indica que la falta de información sumó 658 reclamaciones por USD 22.4 millones.
Los vicios ocultos en las viviendas generaron 425 denuncias, que representan USD 19.2 millones.
El informe oficial también detalla 316 quejas por incumplimiento de contrato, con un monto de USD 23.2 millones, y 249 casos vinculados al incumplimiento de garantía, por USD 11.4 millones.
Quien compra una vivienda en Panamá puede reclamar ante la Autoridad de Protección al Consumidor y Defensa de la Competencia por cláusulas abusivas, falta de información, vicios ocultos, devolución de dinero o incumplimiento de contrato y de garantía.
El cuadro de resultados comprende 2.499 quejas resueltas, por un monto total de USD 146.873.448,48. Esa cifra incluye casos recibidos en años anteriores que se cerraron durante el período analizado.
De ese total, 1.277 casos terminaron en acuerdos entre las partes, por USD 85.6 millones. Otros 65 casos se resolvieron mediante fallos a favor del consumidor a través de la Defensoría de Oficio, por USD 6.8 millones.
El informe dado a conocer por la entidad gubernamental contempla, además, otras modalidades de cierre no detalladas en el desglose principal.
La entidad pide a los consumidores leer con detenimiento los contratos de compraventa antes de firmarlos. También recomienda verificar cada una de las condiciones pactadas con la inmobiliaria.
La Acodeco sugiere solicitar por escrito cualquier información relevante sobre la transacción. Recomienda además conservar los contratos, los recibos, los comprobantes de pago y el resto de la documentación vinculada a la compra.
Ante un posible incumplimiento de derechos, la entidad indica que los afectados pueden acudir a sus oficinas para recibir orientación y presentar la reclamación que corresponda. El informe completo con las estadísticas de quejas contra inmobiliarias está disponible en los canales de la Autoridad de Protección al Consumidor y Defensa de la Competencia.
La entidad de protección al consumidor anunció el lanzamiento de una nueva aplicación móvil para la gestión de reclamos. La herramienta permitirá a los consumidores presentar quejas y denuncias directamente desde sus teléfonos celulares.
La aplicación incluirá la posibilidad de adjuntar fotografías y documentos como respaldo de cada caso. También habilitará un seguimiento del estado de las denuncias presentadas.
Con esta herramienta, la entidad informó que busca agilizar la atención a los ciudadanos. El objetivo declarado, de acuerdo con la información institucional, es facilitar el acceso a los servicios de protección al consumidor en un sector, el inmobiliario, que concentra una parte considerable de los reclamos que recibe la Autoridad de Protección al Consumidor y Defensa de la Competencia.Principio del formulario
Entre enero y octubre de 2026, la institución registró un total de 2,150 denuncias y brindó 20,306 orientaciones, cifras que reflejan la demanda ciudadana de atención y acompañamiento ante distintas situaciones relacionadas con el consumo.
Los principales motivos de denuncia van desde el incumplimiento del beneficio que corresponde a jubilados, pensionados y personas de la tercera edad en restaurantes y franquicias de comida rápida hasta el cobro de precios distintos a los informados.
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American girl, 7, killed during Mexican cartel operation; mother blames police helicopter: report
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A 7-year-old girl with dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship was shot and killed during a Mexican security operation targeting an alleged cartel member, and her mother accused police officers aboard a helicopter of firing the deadly shot.
Aranza Aidelany Pardo died Oct. 29 in Matamoros, a Mexican border city across from Brownsville, Texas. She was among six people killed during the operation and subsequent roadblocks erected by the Gulf Cartel, according to The Associated Press.
Her mother, Claudia Pardo García, told the AP that gunfire from a Tamaulipas state police helicopter struck her daughter in the head. Pardo was also wounded in the leg.
Mexican authorities are investigating three officers aboard the helicopter who remain on active duty, according to Tamaulipas Public Security Secretary Carlos Arturo Pancardo.
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The Rio Grande is seen from an international bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, Jan. 15, 2026. A 7-year-old American girl was killed in the border city during a Mexican security operation. (Gabriel V. Cardenas/AFP via Getty Images)
The operation resulted in the arrest of Axel Alfredo Cárdenas Rodríguez, also known as El Titán, the son of an alleged Gulf Cartel leader and nephew of the group’s imprisoned founder, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén.
Pardo told the AP that she, her husband and their five children were returning home when they encountered cartel roadblocks and took a rural shortcut.
She said a police helicopter began following their vehicle before circling in front of it. Her husband exited with his hands raised to show officers they were a family, but gunfire erupted.
Aranza was struck in the head, while Pardo was wounded in the leg. She said emergency personnel took more than two hours to arrive.
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Mexican officials reported roadblocks across Tamaulipas after two arrests in Matamoros, seen above, prompting heightened security concerns in the region bordering Texas. (Mahe Elipe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Tamaulipas state prosecutor Jesús Govea said investigators interviewed witnesses and were reviewing video and ballistic evidence to determine who fired the deadly shot.
Pardo told the AP that FBI representatives and U.S. consular officials contacted her family after the shooting.
The FBI, State Department and Tamaulipas prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
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