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Taylor Swift came up in a US Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was allegedly accidentally added to a Signal group chat of national security officials discussing a bombing campaign in Yemen earlier this week.The journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, remained in the group undetected as the cabinet members discussed policy and the potential wave of bombings, which critics said put national security at risk and has sparked both backlash and ridicule.Democratic Virginia Senator Mark Warner was explaining the dangers of alienating allies to the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and FBI Director Kash Patel and pointed to Swift’s shows in Vienna last year becoming the target of a terror plot. He pointed out that sharing intel ended up saving lives.Swift cancelled the three ‘Eras’ shows after police announced that they had narrowly foiled an ISIS plot to attack one of Swift’s shows in the country.“That sharing of information saves lives, and it’s not hypothetical — we all remember, because it was declassified — last year when Austria worked with our community to make sure to expose a plot against Taylor Swift in Vienna that could have killed literally hundreds of individuals,” he said.At the time, Swift spoke out about the scrapped shows, saying: “Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After President Trump and other administration officials denied that a Signal group text about U.S. attack plans in Yemen that seemingly accidentally included The Atlantic‘s top editor did not contain “classified” information, the magazine has published the full text exchange showing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sharing specific details of the planned bombing, including timing, aircraft and weapons that were used in the attack.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After President Trump and other administration officials denied that a Signal group text about U.S. attack plans in Yemen that seemingly accidentally included a top editor at The Atlantic did not contain “classified” information, the magazine has published the full text exchange showing Defense Secretary Pete Hesgeth sharing specific details of the planned bombing, including aircraft and weapons that were used in the attack.

The Atlantic published the U.S. attack plans that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared on the Signal messaging app, in a group that included other top Trump administration officials and, by mistake, the media outlet’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell plans to step down from his post.