washington, Nov. 12 -- Efforts to impeach US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stalled on Tuesday after Republicans closed ranks around the embattled Pentagon chief to block a House vote on impeachment. Instead of holding a final vote, the House voted 211-204 to send the articles to the Republican-led Judiciary Committee. The move effectively kills the effort to impeach Hegseth, who has overseen the Iran war, in the current Congress. Any new attempt would have to wait until January, when a Democratic-led House is sworn in. The articles of impeachment were reintroduced by Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, a critic of the Trump administration, on Monday. Prior to Tuesday's vote, a number of observers - including prominent Republican Senator T...