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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing. This is...

Jeffrey Goldberg was an IDF prison guard (First Intifada), and has pushed many wars: Iraq (2002 New Yorker piece), Iran (2010 strike hype), Syria (2012 intervention case). The Atlantic is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, billionaire widow of Steve Jobs, who is a major financial donor of Democrat causes and candidates, including Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign. Why is Mike Waltz or any Trump admin official in text groups with the Fake News Media at all, let alone Goldberg at The Atlantic? Was this a mistake or a purposeful strategic leak to a Trump hater in the media?

A 39-year-old Utah man is now facing multiple charges after a college student who was missing for five days was found naked and covered in coal inside his home, reports say. Brent Brown, of Loa, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping, rape, object rape and obstruction of justice following the discovery of a Snow College student on Saturday, according to Fox 13. He is now being held without bail. The saga involving the student began on the night of Dec. 13, when she was last seen leaving her dorm building in Ephraim. The next day, her roommates reported her missing...