The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, denies “send text messages to war plans” to a group text that included the Atlantic Chief Editor. A second woman is strangled during a family visit in a California prison. And the bankruptcy of 23 Andme triggers personal privacy fears.
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The Trump administration reviewing how military plans were sent to a magazine editor
The White House said it is reviewing how the Atlantic Chief Editor Jeff Goldberg was accidentally added to a group text in which the people who seemed to be members of the administration of President Donald Trump discussed plans to launch air attacks against Houthi militants in Yemen. In response to Goldberg’s article on the incident, the National Security Council said in a statement that the thread “seems to be authentic.”
Goldberg reported that he had been added to a group chat called “Houthi PC Small Group” on March 13 through the encrypted messaging service signal. Goldberg wrote in his article that he was initially skeptical of the chat, which “included precise information about packages of weapons, objectives and time.” He added that he left the group of signals after personally concluding that it was “almost surely real.”
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The messages seemed to come from vice president JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegesh, Secretary of State Frame Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and other prominent officials of the Trump administration.
Asked by a journalist how the information was shared with a journalist and if the material was classified, Hegseth called Goldberg as a “call journalist” and said: “No one was sending text messages to war plans, and that is all I have to say about that.”
Responding to Heghseth’s comments during a MSNBC interview, Goldberg said: “You can say that it was not a war plan, but it was a thorough accounting of what was about to happen organized by Centcom”, referring to the central command, which directs US military operations for the Middle East and other regions.
Democratic legislators criticized quickly and made fun of the news. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in X, “You have to be joking.” Republican legislators, however, offered mixed reactions.
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The second woman strangled during the family visit in the California prison
A woman who was strangled during a visit to the night with her husband in a California prison is the second person to die in a year at the facilities during a family visit, authorities said. Stephanie Diane Dowells, a 62 -year -old groin, was killed in November in Mule Creek’s state prison in IONE, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The other victim was Tania Thomas, 47, who was also strangled during a family visit in July, said the district prosecutor of Amador County, Todd Riebe. The man who was visiting has been accused of murder in relation to his murder.
The murder of Dowells remains under investigation, with positions pending prison and autopsy reports, said Riebe. Her husband, David Brinson, is fulfilling four consecutive life terms for the murders of four men during a robbery in the 1990s. Now, Dowells’s son, Armand Torres, wonders why Brinson was allowed to have family visits. Spoke with the reporter Janelle Griffith about his mother’s relationship and how he trusted the hem enough to allow her 3 -year -old son to accompany her on prison visits.
23 and bankruptcy bankruptcy bankruptcy fears of privacy fears
The DNA data of millions of 23Andme users are on sale after the genetic test company was declared in bankruptcy on Sunday. A 23Andme spokesman said there will be no changes in how the company stores customer data, but privacy experts and defenders still worry.
“People have absolutely no voice about where their data will go,” Tazin Kahn, CEO of a non -profit organization and cybersecurity rights. In addition, genetic data that are legally acquired and in the hands of a technology company are subject to almost no federal regulation to begin with, said lawyer Andrew Crawford. Another legal expert said the sale of 23Andme It should be a attention call For Americans about their personal information.
So what can users do in the meantime? California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, issued a statement with instructions on how to eliminate genetic data, how to delete their test samples and how to prevent their data from being used in third -party research studies.
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