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As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia — President Trump's Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen …
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Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers — Several days after top national security officials accidentally included a reporter in a Signal chat about bombing the Houthi sites in Yemen, a Pentagon-wide advisory warned against using the messaging app, even for unclassified information.
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NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat — The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News.
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'It's so unbelievable': Cyber world stunned over war planners using Signal — Regardless of app security, experts say communicating the military plans of the U.S. government in a non-classified space creates a massive security vulnerability. — Lawmakers and experts are sounding the alarm …


It's a thousand times worse than you think
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White House defiant after messaging fiasco with The Atlantic
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Ratcliffe: Signal was approved for communication use by Biden administration
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Atlantic editor suggests he's open to sharing Hegseth's full war plans texts publicly
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Republicans in Congress React to Signal Chat Leak With Collective Shrug
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Top Intel Democrat calls for Hegseth and Waltz to resign
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Intelligence leaders: We didn't share classified information in Signal chat group
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Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Despite pioneering self-government …
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Trump Signs Order in Attempt to Vastly Reshape U.S. Elections — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday commanding wide-ranging changes to how U.S. elections are conducted, a move that will likely be swiftly challenged by voting rights organizations across the country.
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Trump targets Jenner & Block in latest executive order aimed at law firms — President Donald Trump expanded his attacks on major U.S. law firms on Tuesday as he signed an executive order targeting Jenner & Block, which represents clients challenging some of his major policies and formerly employed …
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Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks — The result is an extraordinary threat to constitutional rights of due process and legal representation and a far weaker effort to challenge Trump's actions in court than during his first term. — Just now
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Trump orders states to require proof of citizenship in federal elections — Election experts said Trump was claiming power he does not have and said lawsuits over the measure were all but guaranteed. — just now — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday requiring people …
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They Are America's Most Powerful Law Firms. Their Silence Is Deafening.
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Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes: Social Security is breaking down — A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
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Former Social Security Chief Courts Florida Seniors Enraged by Musk's Cuts
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The Social Security crisis, briefly explained
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Europe fumes at Trump team's insults in leaked Signal chat — British forces already took part in strikes against Houthis, so don't call us “freeloaders,” former defense secretary says. — LONDON — Sometimes it's better not to know what your so-called friends say behind your back.
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Now Europe Knows What Trump's Team Calls It Behind Its Back: ‘Pathetic’
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The Worst and the Dimmest — Most relatively informed citizens will be aware …
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It's war and peace with Donald and Pete - and the worst group chat the world has ever seen
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SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn't Even the Worst Part Of It … I haven't had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about the war cabinet planning a military campaign on the Signal app. So a few brief thoughts. — To state the obvious, in any normal administration Hegseth and Waltz …
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👊🔥🇺🇸: Michael Waltz's emoji trio reaction to Yemen strikes goes viral — National Security Advisor Michael Waltz's fist, American flag and fire emoji combo (👊🔥🇺🇸) response to strikes on Yemen is taking on a social media life …
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Trump stands by national security adviser despite leaked military plans, saying mishap had ‘no impact’ on Yemen strikes — “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man,” President Donald Trump said of his national security adviser in a Tuesday phone interview with NBC News.
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The biggest scandal of Trump 2.0 is no scandal at all on MAGA media
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Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges — Republican lawmakers are setting their sights on the judiciary following court rulings that have halted Trump's agenda. — WASHINGTON — Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges …
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Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Background. My Administration is committed to addressing the significant risks associated with law firms …
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Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
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Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism — A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism. — A vaccine skeptic who has long promoted false claims about the connection between immunizations …


Trump Administration Plans to Freeze Family-Planning Grants — Tens of millions of dollars in federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other groups would be cut off while the administration examines their DEI efforts — The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions …


Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Attempts to Deport Columbia Undergraduate — The administration has been seeking to arrest and deport Yunseo Chung, who immigrated from South Korea as a child, after she participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered …
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SCOOP: Jasmine Crockett hit with censure effort for mocking paraplegic Texas governor as ‘Hot Wheels’ — Rep. Jasmine Crockett appeared to mock Gov. Greg Abbott's disability during an event over the weekend — FIRST ON FOX: A GOP lawmaker is moving to have Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas …
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Meeting with House panel, OPM officials cut short after clash between top lawmakers — A closed-door meeting between members of a House subcommittee and officials from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was cut short on Tuesday after the top two lawmakers on the panel clashed over the terms of the gathering.


Columbia's President Faces Angry Faculty in Closed-Door Meetings — Katrina Armstrong warns of ‘devastating’ risk of funding cuts — Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong met with anxious faculty over the weekend in an effort to generate support, warn of the jeopardy …


White House Says Russia and Ukraine Agree to Stop Fighting in Black Sea — The agreement announced after parallel sets of talks in Riyadh would be the first significant step toward the full cease-fire the Trump Administration had been pushing, but it still would fall short.
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Who is the most popular U.S. political figure? — Maybe Democrats can learn something from them — There is a lot of debate right now over why and how the Democrats lost the 2024 election, and what to do about it before 2026. The takes have been catalyzed by recent surveys showing …


Noem says she plans to ‘eliminate FEMA’ — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she planned to “eliminate” the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during a televised Cabinet meeting Monday. — While giving a status report on border security, Noem added, “and we're going to eliminate FEMA.”
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