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White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist

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Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’

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Trump says he knows nothing of Atlantic journalist swept up in war plan text chain

President Trump said Monday he knew nothing of a report by a journalist for The Atlantic who says he was swept up in a text message chain with defense and national security officials while they ...
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House Republican calls for 'safeguards' after war plan text chat

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler (N.Y.) called for “safeguards” to be implemented to ensure the leaking of war plans doesn’t happen again after a journalist was included in a Signal group chat discussing ...
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Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after chat emerges

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Hegseth denies war plans shared in group text

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