12 h. ago Kimmel on ‘Signalgate’: ‘A perfect storm of incompetence, inexperience, dishonesty and hypocrisy’

Late-night hosts discuss JD Vance’s trip Greenland and official efforts to downplay sending war plans to a journalistLate-night hosts talked the Trump administration’s attempts to deflect from the Signal group chat leak, Mike Waltz’s public Venmo and JD Vance’s unwanted visit to Greenland. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Signal group chat leak: judge orders Trump administration to preserve all messages from 11

James Boasberg, who has been attacked by Trump for being assigned to the case, reminded hearing that cases are assigned randomlyTop aides to Joe Biden “aggressively” warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the “mistake” of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.“One donor on the receiving end of an electronic message summed up the sentiments of Biden’s top aides: ‘They were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice-president and that would be a mistake.’” Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Judge says he will order government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike

A federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen’s Houthis

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35 h. ago Bondi signals probe into Signal chat is unlikely, despite a long history of similar inquiries

FBI Director Kash Patel may not have been part of a Signal chat in which other Trump administration national security officials discussed detailed attack plans

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51 h. ago Judge clashing with Trump over deportations is assigned new lawsuit over Signal chat

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has blocked the president’s deportation of Venezuelan immigrants under the Aliens Exile Act, has been handed a new lawsuit to hear challenging the Trump administration over the leaked Signal chat on bombings in Yemen.

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52 h. ago Putin mouthpieces mock Trump's team over leak – and 'want to get in' another chat

The Trump administration was plunged into crisis after Signal chat messages discussing war plans were accidentally shared with a journalist - and now Putin's propagandists have weighed in

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56 h. ago Entire Signal chat about Yemen attacks are published after Trump team denied it included classified information

Messages from Pete Hegseth contain detailed timeline of when U.S. forces would strike in Yemen and type of weapons they would use

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60 h. ago Latest Signal leak revelations expose US officials’ lies about what was shared

Trump officials had claimed nothing classified or risking harm to members of the military was shared in the chatSignal leak live – latest updatesThe disclosure by the Atlantic of further devastating messages from the Signal chat group used by the Trump administration’s most senior security officials has nailed the lie that nothing that threatened the safety of US servicemen and women was shared on the group.After the vague and evasive assertions by Trump officials at Monday’s Senate intelligence committee hearing, from the White House, and from the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, that no war plans or classified material was shared, readers can make up their own minds. Continue reading...

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61 h. ago What the accidentally leaked war group chat reveals about the Trump administration | Moira Donegan

Thanks to the Signal leaks, we can see how the administration acts when they think they are in private. It’s not a pretty sightPerhaps one of the greatest lessons of the Donald Trump era, for me, has been in learning the difference between being shocked and being surprised. And indeed it was a bit shocking to learn, via an essay published by the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, that a high-profile journalist had been included on a chat on the commercial messaging app in which a military strike on the Houthi rebels in Yemen was coordinated – including discussions of the timing of the attack, debates about political messaging, personnel coordination and weapons to be used – seemingly without anyone noticing that he was there.It was shocking that their incompetence was so fortuitous – that the person they included, seemingly accidentally, in their unsecured group chat about war plans was someone so uniquely equipped to broadcast their idiocy to a large audience. But it was ...

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62 h. ago The Atlantic publishes full bombshell exchange between Trump's top team about Yemen strike plans

The Atlantic magazine has published the full exchange of messages from a Signal group chat set up by senior US Government officials to organise a strike on Yemen earlier this month.

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62 h. ago Entire Signal chats about Yemen attacks are published after Trump team denied it included any classified information

The messages from Hegseth contain a detailed timeline of when U.S. forces would strike in Yemen and the type of weapons they would use

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66 h. ago Trump's top team 'screwed up' over Yemen strikes group chat leak, says UK Defence Secretary John Healey

Mike Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser, said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for setting up the group chat that included a journalist along with top US officials

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3 d. ago Trump news at a glance: Waltz takes fall for Signal blunder as president dismisses security threat

Signal chat including the top editor of the Atlantic causes White House chaos. Here’s your roundup of key US politics stories from 25 March 2025Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said he took full responsibility for a stunning leak of military plans in a Signal chat, while Trump intervened to defend him, saying it was “the only glitch in two months”.“I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything is coordinated,” Waltz said in an interview with Fox News, in which he conceded: “it’s embarrassing”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump shifts blame for Signalgate texts onto mystery ‘lower level’ employee

In an interview with Newsmax, Trump offered a theory on how Jeffrey Goldberg had ended up on a Signal group chat with senior officials in his administration

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3 d. ago Mike Waltz takes ‘full responsibility’ for leaked Trump administration Signal chat about Yemen strike

Defense Secretary accused reporter who received chats of ‘peddling hoaxes’ earlier in day

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3 d. ago Hunt for mystery White House 'mole' staffer Trump blamed for stunning Signal war plans blunder

The hunt is on for a White House aide being blamed for putting The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a Signal group chat alongside key Trump administration officials.

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3 d. ago Trump's surprising response as Elon Musk pokes fun at his administration's largest scandal to

President Donald Trump had a surprising reaction to his administration's biggest scandal to-date.

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3 d. ago Trump officials shared Yemen strike plans with journalist in massive group chat security blunder

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was invited to the app Signal group which included National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and Vice-President JD Vance

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3 d. ago Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe

Messages inadvertently shared with Atlantic journalist lays bare the unvarnished truth about how Vance and Hegseth feel about European alliesIf Europe wasn’t already on notice, the extraordinary leak of deliberations by JD Vance and other top-level Trump administration officials over a strike against the Houthis in Yemen was another sign that it has a target on its back.The administration officials gave Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic a front-row seat to the planning for the strike against the Houthis – a stunning intelligence leak that has caused anger against Republicans who called for criminal investigations against Hillary Clinton and others for playing fast and loose with sensitive information. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago JD Vance split with Trump in secret Signal war chat: 'I think we are making a mistake'

Vice President JD Vance advised against a military strike in Yemen, according to a secret Signal chat about the proposed operation with President Donald Trump's national security team.

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