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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth does a television interview outside the White House, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Atlantic releases the entire Signal chat showing Hegseth’s detailed attack plans against Houthis

The Atlantic has released the entire Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials.

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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel, left, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, testifies as the House Intelligence Committee holds a hearing on worldwide threats, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Gabbard calls Signal chats a ‘mistake’ as Trump officials face grilling over leaked military plan

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Wearing a U.S. flag themed pocket square and belt buckle, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth waits for the start of a television interview outside the White House, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Signal attack plan messages: What we do (and don’t) know

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth prepares to give a television interview outside the White House, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

America’s allies alarmed by a leaked group chat about attack plans

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President Donald Trump gestures as he departs a reception celebrating Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump downplays national security team texting military operation plan on Signal as a minor ‘glitch’

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Unpicking security relations with US not ‘responsible’ or ‘serious,’ UK PM Starmer says

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told parliament that unpicking Britain’s relations with the US on defence and security was “neither responsible nor serious” after sensitive information was shared on a group chat.

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DNI Tulsi Gabbard says including a reporter in group text chain about military plans was ‘mistake’

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Hegseth repeats group chat denial: ‘Nobody’s texting war plans’

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FBI Director Kash Patel, joined at right by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, answers questions as the Senate Intelligence Committee holds its worldwide threats hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump intel officials testify on threat from drug cartels as Dems press them on leak of attack plans

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth does a television interview outside the White House, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump officials texted attack plans to a group chat in a secure app that included a journalist

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Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro gestures as he answers questions during an interview with the Associated Press at the Department of National Defense headquarters in Quezon city, Philippines on Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, file)

Philippine defense chief calls China’s claims in the South China Sea ‘the biggest fiction and lie’

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101-year-old Col. James H. Harvey III, one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, sits for a portrait in Aurora, Colo., Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen remembers struggle for recognition amid Trump’s DEI purge

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Maj. Lisa Jaster, center, the first Army Reserve female to graduate the Army's Ranger School, stands in formation with other Rangers during an Army Ranger school graduation ceremony, Oct. 16, 2015, in Fort Benning, Ga. (AP Photo/Branden Camp, File)

The Pentagon’s DEI purge: Officials describe a scramble to remove and then restore online content

March 22

The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view through an airplane window in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pentagon is the latest agency to announce a leak investigation that could include polygraphs

March 22

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responds to questions from reporters during a meeting with Britain's Defense Secretary John Healey at the Pentagon, on March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Hegseth to fly to the Philippines and Japan in first visit to Asian treaty allies at odds with China

March 22

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, center, walks with Scott Burns, left, as they enter "A Southern Salute to the Troops" fund raiser put on by the non-profit 7 Days for the Troops Thursday, March 20, 2025, in Tupelo Miss. (Thomas Wells /The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal via AP)

Hegseth beefs up warship presence in the Middle East and will have 2 aircraft carriers in the region

March 21

This graphical rendering provided by the U.S. Air Force shows the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform, the F-47. On Friday, March 21, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that the Air Force had selected Boeing to produce the next generation fighter jet. (U.S. Air Force via AP)

Eyeing China threat, Trump announces Boeing wins contract for secretive future fighter jet

March 21

Elon Musk departs the Capitol following a meeting with Senate Republicans, in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump acknowledges concerns over Musk’s business interests and says he shouldn’t get war plans

March 21

In this Aug. 29, 2021, file photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, a flag flies at half-staff as seen from Camp Justice in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pentagon reviews plans to cut troops handling migrants at Guantanamo by as much as half

March 19

People stand outside the headquarters of the United States Institute of Peace, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein).

Judge is ‘offended’ at DOGE’s tactics but does not pause its takeover of the US Institute of Peace

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FILE- Attendants sit next to a field contaminated with dioxin before a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Maika Elan, File)

Takeaways from the AP’s report on how USAID cuts are imperiling Agent Orange cleanup

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FILE- A detail of South Vietnamese Air Force men load up a tractor-train of 500-pound bombs from the Bien Hoa Air Base ammunition depot, Dec. 29, 1964. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)

USAID cuts jeopardize Agent Orange cleanup and other efforts critical to ties with Vietnam

March 20

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from banning transgender people from military service

March 19

The United State Institute of Peace building is seen, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump administration guts board of US Institute of Peace. Group says DOGE arrives

March 18

Elon Musk flashes his t-shirt that reads "DOGE" to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Musk meets with head of National Security Agency to ensure it is aligned with Trump, spy agency says

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U.S. troopers alight from a US Army CH-47 carrying American and Philippine troops as it lands at the Philippines' northernmost town of Itbayat, Batanes province during a joint military exercise on Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Military leaders warn of risks to armed forces’ readiness in temporary funding bill

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Elon Musk leaves after meeting with Senate Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Some Republican lawmakers have concerns about Elon Musk and DOGE. Here’s what they’ve said

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Immigration advocates hold a funeral in Eagle Pass, Texas on Thursday Feb. 6, 2025, for Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Olivares, who drowned in November 2023 after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Venezuelan parents watch from home as their son is laid to rest in Texas after drowning

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An attendee takes a photo of the sign that was unveiled when Fort Liberty was rededicated as Fort Bragg during a ceremony on base, Friday, March 7, 2025, (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

Bragg to Liberty and back again: Ceremony to rechristen Army post once named for a Confederate

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In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, Pfc. Christina Fuentes Montenegro prepares to hike to her platoon's defensive position during patrol week of Infantry Training Battalion near Camp Geiger, N.C. Oct. 31, 2013. (Sgt. Tyler Main/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge

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President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump casts doubt on NATO solidarity, despite it aiding the US after Sept. 11

March 7

In this photo provided by Dan Donaldson, Dana Klabenes, the city clerk in Neligh, Neb., holds her hand under a photo of former Mayor Fred Benning, a World War I veteran who is being honored by having an Army base in Georgia renamed Fort Benning in his honor, at city hall on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (Dan Donaldson via AP)

Trump’s move to restore old Army base names highlights Nebraska man’s heroics at 18 in World War I

March 6

Elon Musk salutes as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Elon Musk’s PAC is running ads touting Trump’s accomplishments — and his

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Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick speaks with reporters after President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump grants one-month exemption for US automakers from new tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada

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Vice President JD Vance speaks to reporters during a visit to the U.S. border with Mexico Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Eagle Pass, Texas, as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard listens. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP)

Vance promotes Trump’s ‘whole government’ immigration crackdown during visit to US-Mexico border

March 5

Pentagon nominee pushed to acknowledge Russian invasion of Ukraine in Senate hearing

March 4

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Hegseth orders suspension of Pentagon’s offensive cyberoperations against Russia

March 3

The children of Lt. Gen. Hal and Julia Moore join the command team at what's now Fort Moore during the unveiling the new sign, May 11, 2023, in Fort Moore, Ga. (Mike Haskey/Ledger-Enquirer via AP, File)

Pentagon changes name of Georgia Army base back to Fort Benning, dumping Fort Moore

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