Officials in the former president’s administration, though, said they never used the app for classified information — and certainly never for war plans

CIA Director John Ratcliffe is blaming President Joe Biden's administration for a conversation on an encrypted app that may have included classified intelligence information. A bombshell report in The Atlantic revealed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared classified war plans in a Signal chat that included a reporter among its membership.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said "nobody's texting war plans" and pushed back against the characterization of the leaked information.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday followed through on weeks of threats for new tariffs on imported cars, saying a 25% import tax on vehicles not built in the U.S. would kick in next week.

In trying to distract from their alarming incompetence of having Jeff Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, in their Signal group chat about bombing Yemen, top Trump administration

US President Donald Trump has distanced himself from the Signal chat group scandal, saying he had "nothing to do with it", and "I was told it was Mike (Waltz)" who was responsible Read the messages Trump officials exchanged on the leaked Signal thread here Secretary of State Marco Rubio says "someone made a big mistake" inviting The Atlantic's editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat with top US officials,