1 hour ago Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office confirms that his younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser

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30 h. ago The Trump team group chat news is obscuring an essential question | Mohamad Bazzi

Amid outrage over sharing military details, we’re forgetting to scrutinize why the US is bombing Yemen in the first placeThe revelation that top members of Donald Trump’s administration disclosed top-secret US military plans against the Houthi militia in Yemen in a private group chat that included a prominent journalist has generated predictable outrage in Washington. Democrats are calling for a congressional investigation and the resignation of some of the officials involved in the breach, including the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and the national security adviser, Mike Waltz.In an article published on Monday, the Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, outlined how he was able to follow the conversation among members of Trump’s cabinet over two days leading up to a series of US airstrikes on 15 March. But in the widespread outrage over the sharing of military information on a Signal chat, one essential question is getting lost: why is Trump bombing Yemen in the...

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31 h. ago Mike Waltz faces new scrutiny over public Venmo account after Signal chat blunder – live

National security adviser’s Venmo account reveals journalists, lobbyists and military personnel, Wired reportsTop 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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43 h. ago Trump news today: President slaps 25 percent tariff on all non

President insists National Security Adviser Mike Waltz not at fault as White House attacks Atlantic editor added to group chat on Yemen airstrikes by mistake as ‘anti-Trump-hater’

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44 h. ago Unearthed photo of Trump security advisor Mike Waltz demolishes major claim about war plan leak scandal

A photo has been published that pokes holes into Mike Waltz's explanation for Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg being allowed into a White House group chat.

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48 h. ago Trump news today: White House attacks journalist in Signal chat as an ‘anti

President insists National Security Adviser Mike Waltz not at fault as White House attacks Atlantic editor added to group chat on Yemen airstrikes by mistake as ‘anti-Trump-hater’

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49 h. ago Inside Trump's rage at 'stupid' top national security aide as he battles 'embarrassing' leaked war plans texts

President Donald Trump lauded National Security Advisor Michael Waltz as a 'good man' who will continue to do a 'good job' during an event at the White House on Tuesday.

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50 h. ago Trump news today: Press secretary claims Signal texts were not war plans and calls journalist ‘anti

President insists National Security Adviser Mike Waltz not at fault as White House attacks Atlantic editor added to group chat on Yemen airstrikes by mistake as ‘Trump-hater’

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53 h. ago Trump news today: Journalist shares Signal attack plans after officials denied they contained classified information

President insists National Security Adviser Mike Waltz not at fault and blames ‘low level’ White House employee for blunder that saw Atlantic editor added to group chat on Yemen airstrikes by mistake

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55 h. ago Trump live updates: Journalist shares Signal attack plans after officials denied they contained classified information

President insists National Security Adviser Mike Waltz not at fault and blames ‘low level’ White House employee for blunder that saw Atlantic editor added to group chat on Yemen airstrikes by mistake

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55 h. ago Donald Trump's top team HUMILIATED as MORE bombshell war messages released

Further texts have been leaked from Donald Trump's top security team after a major national security blunder saw a journalist added to a group chat discussing US military strikes on Yemen

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56 h. ago Kent awarded framework contract to support UK government’s energy transition

Kent, a global leader in engineering and energy transition solutions, has been awarded a place on the UK government’s Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) ENZPS Framework to provide strategic advisory and engineering services.

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59 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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61 h. ago Trump pins blame for Signal group chat leak on ‘lower level’ employee

Donald Trump has blamed a ‘lower-level’ employee working under his National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz, for the Signal group chat security blunder.

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65 h. 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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67 h. ago Mike Waltz claims ‘full responsibility’ for Signal chat group leaked to journalist

Trump adviser says he can’t explain how Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s number was included in the group chatDonald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Waltz, said on Tuesday he takes “full responsibility” for the group chat of senior administration officials that inadvertently included a journalist and leaked highly sensitive information about planned airstrikes in Yemen.Waltz’s comments came one day after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic, revealed that he was added to a group on Signal, a private messaging app, that included vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio and other high-profile figures discussing “operational details” of planned attacks on the Houthis in Yemen. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The Guardian view on the Signal war plans leak: a US security breach speaks volumes | Editorial

A staggering blunder points to the wider failings of the careless and amateurish Trump administrationIt is jaw-dropping that senior Trump administration figures would accidentally leak war plans to a journalist. But the fundamental issue is that 18 high-ranking individuals were happy discussing extremely sensitive material on a private messaging app, highlighting the administration’s extraordinary amateurishness, recklessness and unaccountability.The visceral hostility to Europe spelt out again by the vice-president, JD Vance, was glaring. So was the indifference to the potential civilian cost of the strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, designed to curb attacks on Red Sea shipping. The Houthi-run health ministry said that 53 people including five children and two women were killed. The response by the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, to the attacks was to post emojis: a fist, an American flag and fire. The lack of contrition for this security breach is also telling...

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3 d. ago Who is Mike Waltz? The National Security Adviser under fire for adding journalist to group chat about Yemen strikes

Trump called Waltz a ‘good man’ after news of the group chat snafu broke

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3 d. ago Democrats call for investigations and possible resignations after ‘sloppy, careless, incompetent’ Signal blunder – live

President says national adviser Mike Waltz had ‘learned a lesson’; senate intelligence committee chair criticizes handling of classified informationSignal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of EuropeExploitable flaws: what US adversaries could learn from leakElon Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency employees say.They’re sounding the alarm as at least four other federal agencies have reportedly begun pushing new contracts toward Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company. Musk, the world’s richest man, has been tasked by Donald Trump with drastically slashing the federal government workforce and costs. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump’s top team slammed for ‘unbelievably stupid’ security breach after Signal group chat leak

Gordon Brown’s former security adviser slammed Trump’s administration for the ‘extraordinary’ breach

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