7 m. ago Top Democrat calls for Hegseth and Waltz to resign and shreds Gabbard over Signal war talk leak

Mark Warner says Trump administration officials failed ‘security hygiene 101’

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9 m. ago Firm behind Bibby Stockholm to take over running of migrant hotels after contractor replaced

Home Office minister says government will ‘ensure contracts deliver for the UK’

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44 m. ago The Latest: Officials hold Senate briefing on national security threats

The Trump administration's top intelligence officials are facing Congress for the start of back-to-back hearings to testify about the threats facing the United States and what the government is doing to counter them

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45 m. ago Desperate Fox News goes into furious spin mode to downplay Yemen war plans leak

‘I think you will come away proud that these are the leaders making these decisions in America,’ Fox News host Will Cain said about the Trump officials who accidentally invited a journalist into an unclassified group chat discussing war plans

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3 h. ago Drug dealing in Scotland 'more visible' with poorest communities worst hit

One in six Scots believe drug misuse or dealing is common in their neighbourhood, according to an official report produced by the SNP Government.

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4 h. ago Doubt over US holidays for Brits as Trump introduces 'enhanced vetting'

Brits heading through to America are facing 'aggressive' questioning at the border, as custom officials enforce enhanced vetting' following Trump's immigration crackdown

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4 h. ago Fury at ‘stunning’ security failure by top Trump officials after war plans accidentally shared with journalist – US politics live

Widespread condemnation after extraordinary breach of military intelligence While Signal is regarded as a secure encrypted chat service, its weakness is that phones on which it is installed can themselves be vulnerable.Among those aghast at the breach was the Democratic representative Pat Ryan, an army veteran who sits on the House armed services committee who described it using the second world war-era epithet “Fubar” – meaning “fucked up beyond all recognition”. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago US putting ‘unacceptable’ pressure on Greenland with planned trip by Trump officials, Danish PM says – Europe live

Mette Frederiksen says trip by Usha Vance, Mike Waltz and Chris Wright is ‘clearly not a visit that is about what Greenland needs or wants’A historic high of nearly three quarters of European citizens think their country benefits from EU membership, amid increasing geopolitical turbulence.According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, 74% of people think their country benefits from EU membership, the best result since this question was first asked in 1983, reflecting an increasingly positive mood since 2010 when the union was in the depths of the eurozone financial crisis. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago 'Mike Waltz is a f***ing idiot': Official blamed for revealing Trump team's texts saying they 'loathe bailing out' Europe's 'pathetic free

Some White House officials believe that Waltz will need to be pushed out or resign to save President Trump from being put in a 'bad position'.

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6 h. ago CNN airs brutal montage of Trump officials who were in Signal chat condemning Hillary Clinton’s email server

Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, John Ratcliffe and Mike Waltz all publicly criticized Clinton for failing to use proper government channels to share classified information

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8 h. ago Trump attacks The Atlantic as ‘going out of business’ after officials texted editor Yemen war plans: Live

President’s third Cabinet meeting taking place as tensions rise over Usha Vance’s upcoming visit to Greenland

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8 h. 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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9 h. 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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11 h. ago Trump slams The Atlantic after officials mistakenly texted journalist classified Yemen war plans: Live updates

President’s third Cabinet meeting taking place as tensions rise over Usha Vance’s upcoming visit to Greenland

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11 h. ago Donald Trump's top team rips into America's European allies as bombshell messages exposed

Donald Trump's top national security officials texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat - but they were unaware a journalist was in the group

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12 h. ago Top Trump official faces the sack over shocking leaked group text revealing war plans

A top Trump official appears to be the most endangered White House aide after The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was invited to join a group chat planning an attack on the Houthis.

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14 h. ago Zelensky claims Putin 'influences' White House policy with propaganda and says US officials 'take him at his word'

In an interview released as peace talks began, President Zelensky has pointed to a 'pattern' of high-level officials in Donald Trump's administration taking Vladimir Putin at his word.

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14 h. ago Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw

Security leak triggers bipartisan anger after Atlantic reveals officials inadvertently broadcast highly sensitive military plansWhite House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalistA catastrophic security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along.On the Senate floor on Monday, the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, called it “one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time” and urged Republicans to seek a “full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created and how we can avoid it in the future”. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago High profile inquiries ‘show bodies must act on early warning signs’ – watchdog

Inquiries such as those into Grenfell and the Post Office IT scandal highlighted the need to act more quickly, a committee has found.

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16 h. ago ‘Remarkable sloppiness’: Trump officials’ chat breach shakes Washington

Law enforcement agencies silent on what legal experts say could be a violation of the US espionage act

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