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Trump officials downplay group text about military plans. Pause on some green card processing. New antibiotics for UTI. Baseball's biggest changes in a century.
Trump administration officials downplayed a group text about U.S. military plans that inadvertently included a journalist. Processing for some green card applications has been suspended. And a new type of antibiotic was approved to treat a common infection.
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President Donald Trump's intelligence officials downplayed the inadvertent inclusion of a journalist in a group text about U.S. military plans at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that grew heated as Democrats accused the witnesses of jeopardizing national security.
This week, The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported his inclusion in a text thread about plans to strike Houthi militias in Yemen that appeared to include National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Michael Waltz.
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