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EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy

A high level source in DOD has confirmed that they were ordered to approve installation of Signal on government devices by Trump officials last month Ignoring their own protocols A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense has informed me that a month ago they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders. This story likely confirms that Signal is a primary means of commu ...

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Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public

A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him, was left open to the public until Wednesday afternoon. A WIRED analysis shows that the account revealed the names of hundreds of Waltz’s personal and professional associates, including journalists, military officers, lobbyists, and others—information a foreign intelligence service or other actors could exploit ...

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Trump announces 25% tariffs on all cars 'not made in the United States'

Published Wed, Mar 26 2025 12:45 PM EDT Updated 13 Min Ago President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would impose 25% tariffs on "all cars that are not made in the United States." Trump said there is "absolutely no tariff" for cars that are built in the U.S. The new tariffs were codified in a presidential proclamation that Trump signed in the Oval Office. They will go into effect April 2, and "we start collecting April 3," he said. Trump White House aide Will ...

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D.C. police investigating vandalism to Teslas as possible hate crimes

The trouble began at Union Station, D.C. police said, when someone scrawled, “Ask me about my support of Nazis” across a Tesla’s rear window on March 2. D.C. police say they are investigating the ‘Nazi’ comment, an apparent reference to a gesture criticized as a Nazi-style salute that Musk made on Inauguration Day, and one other, as potential hate crimes. Prosecutors must prove a person was motivated by prejudice to secure a conviction in a bias-related crime. While targeting someone based on ...

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Signal chat group members partied at $1 million-a-plate Mar-a-Lago dinner after Yemen bombings: Report

Wednesday 26 March 2025 01:49 EDT Members of a Trump administration chat group which apparently inadvertently leaked U.S. military operations in Yemen to a journalist reportedly partied with the president at a $1-million-a-seat fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago after the plotted bombings took place. Hours after the alarming breach of national security involving the journalist, and the fatal bombings in Yemen, which both took place March 15, several members of the Signal chat group attended the ...

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Democrat wins special state Senate election in Pennsylvania in major upset

(The Hill) Democrat James Malone has won an open Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a major upset in a district that comfortably voted for President Trump in November, Decision Desk HQ projects. Malone, the mayor of East Petersburg, is projected to defeat Republican Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons to represent Senate District 36 for the remainder of former state Sen. Ryan Aument’s (R) term. Parsons was considered likely to win in the conservative-leaning district, which President Trump carried in November with 57 percent of the vote and McCormick won with 56 percent.

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Democrat wins Pennsylvania special election, handing party control of state House

(The Hill) Democrat Dan Goughnour has won the open Pennsylvania state House seat left vacated by the death of the most recent officeholder, restoring Democrats’ narrow majority in the body, Decision Desk HQ projects. Goughnour, who is a member of the McKeesport school board and a police officer, will win over Republican Chuck Davis, the president of the White Oak Borough Council. The result is not a surprise in the Democratic-leaning House District 35, which voted for former Vice President Harris in November with about 58 percent of the vote.

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The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts in response to administration denials

(The Atlantic) On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.”

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Politics NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat

(CBS News) 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 Atlantic.

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Teen member of Musk's Doge staff provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show

(The Guardian) The best-known member of Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters. Past reporting had focused on the staffer’s youth – he is 19 – and his chosen nickname of “bigballs,” which became a pop culture punchline. Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month: “Big Balls is awesome.”

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