The White House confirms that a journalist was inadvertently added to a group chat where senior US officials discussed plans for a strike against the Houthi rebel group
Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, says he received an invite on the encrypted messaging app Signal from an account labelled White House National Security Adviser Michael Waltz
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is alleged to have shared details of planned military strikes in the chat group, tells reporters “nobody was texting war plans”
Trump’s national security team’s chat app leak is a stunning failure, writes BBC’s Anthony Zurcher
US President Donald Trump says he “doesn’t know anything” about the group chat
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer leads calls among Democrats for an investigation of the “stunning breach”
Source: BBC
