Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg exposed what is being called “Signalgate”—reporting on a group chat he got added to where high-level government officials shared sensitive information about U.S. plans to attack Houthi rebels—he […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday refrained from categorising the chat information as classified, instead describing it as “a sensitive policy discussion.”When questioned about possible terminations following the accidental inclusion of a journalist in a Signal thread discussing military plans with senior US officials, Leavitt said, “What I can say definitively is what […]
WASHINGTON (TNND) — For the second time in as many weeks, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shut down the same reporter during a news briefing. The journalist, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, asked Leavitt a follow up question Wednesday about how top national security officials shared sensitive attack plans over the messaging app Signal — and […]
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As the fallout from Trump’s tariff plans comes into relief, a harsh truth is emerging for the automotive industry: there are lots of losers and not many winners. But foreign automakers, those without US facilities, will be hit especially hard. As Bloomberg notes, from South Korea’s Hyundai to Germany’s Volkswagen, and to a lesser extent America’s own General […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel was not part of a Signal chat in which other Trump administration national security officials discussed detailed attack plans, but that didn’t spare him from being questioned by lawmakers this week about whether the nation’s premier law enforcement agency would investigate. Patel made no such commitments during the […]
Wearing a smile and a t-shirt with the Jolly Green Giant logo on it, Steve Davis looks about as far from Elon Musk’s shadowy henchman as you could imagine. The photo, obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail, was taken in 1997 during Davis’s senior year at high school in Massachusetts. Back then Davis, now 45, […]
WASHINGTON (TNND) — For the second time in as many weeks, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shut down the same reporter during a news briefing. The journalist, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, asked Leavitt a follow up question Wednesday about how top national security officials shared sensitive attack plans over the messaging app Signal — and […]
President Trump on Wednesday adjusted tariffs on foreign-made cars to impose 25% tariffs on “imported passenger vehicles (sedans, SUVs, crossovers, minivans, cargo vans) and light trucks, as well as key automobile parts (engines, transmissions, powertrain parts, and electrical components), with processes to expand tariffs on additional parts if necessary.” This comes as the President’s executive […]
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge’s inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants who were being deported from the United States. The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it was invoking the “state secrets privilege” […]