WASHINGTON (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Democratische fractievoorzitter in het Huis van Afgevaardigden, Hakeem Jeffries, steunt een afzettingsprocedure tegen de Amerikaanse minister van Defensie Pete Hegseth. Jeffries zei "absoluut voor" te zijn wat betreft een voorstel dat mogelijk komende week wordt ingediend.

"De zogenaamde minister van Defensie heeft zijn macht misbruikt, onze nationale veiligheid ondermijnd en deze roekeloze en kostbare, doelbewuste oorlog in Iran uitgelokt. Dit heeft geleid tot torenhoge prijzen voor de Amerikaanse bevolking en heeft het land minder veilig gemaakt", aldus Jeffries in het programma This Week op ABC.

De Democraten in het Huis zijn van plan om het voorstel dinsdag te bespreken, wanneer ze voor het eerst samenkomen sinds ze bij de tussentijdse verkiezingen de meerderheid in beide kamers van het Congres behaalden.

Ook onder Republikeinen is de roep om het vertrek van Hegseth toegenomen. De afgevaardigde Thomas Massie liet vorige week weten een afzettingsvoorstel in te dienen zodra het Huis weer bijeenkomt.

Some highlights from special collections libraries' blogs this week.
Library of Virginia completes five-year effort to digitize 99 'Free Negro Registers' for Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative
Celebrating The Waste Land's Centennial
One Man Able to Compose the Sheets A Nipmuc man known as James Printer played a pivotal role in early American printing
The Scrapbooking Mentalist

Ahmed Haroun wordt verdacht van misdaden tegen de menselijkheid en oorlogsmisdaden. Hij is een vertrouweling van voormalig dictator Omar el-Bashir en werd al eens eerder gearresteerd.

De werkweek begint met een primeur: de wegenwacht demonstreert op het Malieveld in Den Haag. Medewerkers van de ANWB staken uit boosheid over de stroeve cao-onderhandelingen en de hoge werkdruk. Ze roepen op tot „meer waardering voor ons werk in weer en wind”.

Who can stop Brighton’s ­ascension in English and European football? They are setting standards, ­practices ­leaving almost everybody else ­trailing in their wake. A ­second‑place position in the ­Premier League would once have read like a glitch in a ­Football ­Manager ­session. Not in November 2026, where they appear the only team capable of throwing down any sort of challenge to Arsenal.

Under low winter sun, Brentford, an opposition to which Brighton are often, if lazily, compared, were ­swatted aside. If Keith Andrews’s team, and their fans at the Amex ­Stadium, could level blame at a couple of ­refereeing decisions, they received little chance of rescuing anything. Brighton squeezed them, toyed with them.

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A lot can change in five-and-half months, but as an early winter chill descended on Wearside this week – both meteorologically and metaphorically – Sunderland were determined that some things should remain the same.

Just as they had beaten Chelsea on the final day of last season in May to ensure European qualification for the first time in 53 years, they did so again on Sunday to lift themselves off the bottom of the Premier League. The real triumph was that a patched-up defence, without the injured Dan Ballard and the banned Omar Alderete, kept Chelsea at enough distance to allow Robin Roefs a tranquil afternoon. Chelsea may be developing into a chaotic must-watch under Xabi Alonso but they were subdued here, and fall out of the top four.

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It was the moment when Liverpool knew they would win here in south London and so move on from the Premier League loss to Arsenal at Anfield last Sunday and the one in midweek at Fenerbahce in the Champions League.

Florian Wirtz had timed his run as Liverpool broke up the right and Bradley Barcola’s low pull back was made to measure. Wirtz had to take it on first time and it was a test of his technique under pressure. He never looked like failing it, not least because smoothness in this area is his calling card. Liverpool were 2-0 up, Alexis Mac Allister having headed them in front towards the end of the first half, and all you could hear was the eruption of delight in the away supporters’ enclosure.

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Antonelli doesn’t – unusually for young sports stars – look older than his years. He’s all chuchi-faced and innocent, with a luxuriant head of hair, curls spilling out of his baseball cap. I am not envious, not one bit.

It knows how to rain in Brazil.

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