Congress returns this week to grapple with fallout from the midterms and decide what, if any, legislation can pass in the final weeks of Republican control.
Defeated Republicans must decide whether to attempt a third, party-line budget reconciliation bill to pass their remaining priorities before Democrats take control of Congress in January.
Democrats will consider whether to immediately leverage their momentum to cut off funding for the Iran war, as lawmakers consider the National Defense Authorization Act and other government funding.
Before those decisions come into focus, the Senate will attempt to pass bipartisan legislation to overhaul the federal permitting process for energy, infrastructure and other development projects.
President Trump is gearing up for a partisan battle with Congress during his final two years in office.
He spent the weekend huddling with his closest advisers at Mar-a-Lago, plotting a strategy for what is shaping up to be a showdown with Democrats in the next Congress.
Democratic Party leaders said they would subpoena Trump’s administration and family and impeach members of the president’s Cabinet after they take control of the House and Senate in January.
Maryland landowners have rushed to the Supreme Court asking for a halt to a power company’s attempt to survey their property.
In the case, a lower court granted PSEG Renewable Transmission access to a property before deciding whether it could legally exercise Maryland’s eminent domain powers.
Residents say the transmission lines will fuel a surge of new data centers in the metropolitan region.
It could be the first in a wave of cases pitting data centers and their infrastructure needs against residents, who increasingly question what those demands will mean for their communities.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has selected Gadi Eisenkot, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leading political rival, to attempt to form a new government after inconclusive elections last month.
Netanyahu’s Likud party won the most seats but failed to secure a majority in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. No party received enough of the 120 seats to form a working government.
Herzog’s decision to bypass Netanyahu and give his rival the first shot at building a coalition leaves the prime minister’s future and Israel’s relationship with the Trump administration under question.
And finally … In South Korea, footage that leaked online covered the “K-Walking Performance Military Festival,” featuring the 1st Airborne Special Forces Brigade.
The event showed soldiers being put through their paces on a catwalk by models.
A military spokesperson acknowledged to South Korean media that the event was inappropriate because “it did not suit the characteristics of the unit or the needs and expectations of its soldiers.”
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