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U.S. military plans were discussed in a group chat that included, apparently by accident, a journalist.
I'm sitting in my car, and I get this war plan from Pete Hegseth.
Why were sensitive plans to strike Yemen shared on an unsecured messaging app? I'm Michelle Martin, that's Leila Fadl, and this is Up First from NPR News. A federal judge says the Trump administration did not give appropriate due process to hundreds of Venezuelan migrants when it deported them under a wartime law. Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemy Act than has happened here.
What is the administration's argument?
And the prime minister of Greenland is not happy about an upcoming visit from Second Lady Usha Vance.
International travel is often set up as a way to connect
with the voting public. But Greenland sees it as aggressive. Stay with us. We'll give you the news you need to start your day. In an extraordinary security breach, the country's most senior security officials created a group chat on a messaging app to discuss U.S.
airstrikes on Yemen. Now, two important points about this. First, the group chat was on Signal, not a secure U.S. government network. And second, the group included a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic magazine, apparently by accident. For more, we're joined by NPR national security correspondent Greg Myrie.
Hey, Greg.
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