Footage shared by US Central Command on March 15, 2025 showed a US fighter jet taking off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea

Footage shared by US Central Command on March 15, 2025 showed a US fighter jet taking off from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Red Sea

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Top Trump administration officials texted a group chat including a journalist plans for strikes on Yemen's Huthi rebels, the White House said, an extraordinary security breach that shocked Washington's political elite.

US President Donald Trump announced the strikes on March 15, but The Atlantic magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote on Monday that he had hours of advance notice via the group chat on Signal, which included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance.

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