Month: March 2025

By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled. Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg detailed a discussion that happened over the Signal messaging

By ERIC TUCKER and DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s top intelligence officials are facing Congress this week to offer their first testimony in office about the threats confronting the United States and tackle urgent questions about the security breach that unfolded when war plans were mistakenly leaked to a journalist.

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By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Frank Bisignano, a self-professed “DOGE person,” faces questions about whether the Trump administration plans to privatize Social Security as he appears before the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday for his hearing to serve as commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Bisignano, a Wall Street veteran and one-time

By The Associated Press The Trump administration’s top intelligence officials face Congress for back-to-back hearings this week to testify about the threats facing the United States and what the government is doing to counter them. The briefing will take place at 10 a.m. ET. The hearing comes a day after The Atlantic magazine reported that

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Israeli authorities released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was detained by the army after being attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. He said they beat him in front of his home while filming the assault. Hamdan Ballal and the other directors of

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — They didn’t look after this bear. In fact, two men who had been drinking kicked and yanked on a statue of Paddington, the fictional orphaned bear who came to England from Peru, until it broke in half. Then they took it. A judge on Tuesday chastised the