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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said he’s “never communicated” with the Atlantic editor he let access a private group chat of top U.S. officials discussing war plans, in his first ...

President Donald Trump and his team held a secret Mar-a-Lago dinner on the same day as the U.S. bombing of Yemen, which top administration officials reportedly planned in a group chat that mistakenly ...