Amid a national focus on the private messaging platform Signal, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s office is facing questions about Johnston and his advisers’ recent use of the app, which can auto-delete messages, to discuss the Trump administration’s actions. A group chat — called “Strike Force” — was created in the encrypted messaging app for the…
The bombshell publication of a group chat involving Trump administration officials discussing U.S. battle plans revealed in unusually stark fashion what the Trump administration hopes to achieve with airstrikes this month against the Houthi militia in Yemen. The attacks, some of the chat’s participants said, were meant to deter the Houthis from attacking commercial ships…
The Signal encrypted messaging app is seen on a mobile device with the Department of Defense logo in … More the background in this illustration photo; (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images The unfolding story of how and why national security and other officials of the Trump administration used the…
The White House effort to defend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday leaned heavily into a semantic argument. What he posted on the now-infamous Signal chat with his national security colleagues was not a “war plan,” they insist. Technically, they may be right. What The Atlantic published, from the chain in which its top editor,…
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. News of the NSA bulletin comes amid the continued fallout from an explosive article published Monday in The…
Trump administration officials haven’t kept their disdain for Europe quiet. But the contempt seems to be even louder behind closed doors. Europeans reacted with a mix of exasperation and anger to the publication of parts of a discussion between top-ranking Trump administration officials, carried out on the messaging app Signal. The discussion, about a planned…
The top editor of the Atlantic magazine revealed on Monday that he knew about U.S. airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen hours before they happened, because he was added to a Signal messaging app group chat where members of the Trump administration appeared to be discussing such war plans. Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg said he received…
The IDF on Tuesday night shot down a ballistic missile fired by the Yemen Houthis on central and southern Israel. The military said it shot down that missile beyond Israel’s borders, but that due to the speed and explosive power of such missiles it was necessary to activate warning sirens throughout portions of central…
Houthis’ Shock Video Message For Trump After Three 3 Missile Attacks On American Warship Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed that they launched three attacks on a U.S. warship amid massive strikes on the rebel-held territories of Arab nation. In a video message, Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree announced the new attack. Additionally, thousands in Sanaa hit…
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim they have once again targeted a U.S. aircraft carrier, marking the third attack in just 48 hours. According to Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree, their forces fired cruise missiles and drones at the USS Harry S. Truman, while also striking a U.S. destroyer in the Red Sea. Saree stated the attack left…