Newly released Signal texts showed what was at stake. More messages were released yesterday from a Signal group chat between President Trump’s top security officials laying out plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen. The Atlantic — whose editor in chief had been inadvertently added to the group, and who first wrote about the leak on Monday — published a fuller transcript. The leaked chat led to mounting calls by Democrats for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to step down, saying he had behaved recklessly and could have endangered American troops. Hegseth revealed the precise timing of the strikes on Houthi targets.
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s military chief, said yesterday that “Khartoum is now free,” as the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group, withdrew in large numbers from the capital they had occupied since civil war broke out nearly two years ago. The military announced it had captured a large R.S.F. base and was pursuing the remaining forces across the city. Drone footage from Sudan’s military showed hundreds of R.S.F. fighters fleeing across a dam south of the capital — their last remaining escape route.
At least 24 people in South Korea have died, and dozens have been injured, in wildfires that the acting president said yesterday appeared to be “breaking the record” for the worst ever. Fire crews continued to fight the blazes, which have been fueled by windy and dry conditions. Of the nearly 30 fires that began since Friday, eight were still burning yesterday.
Oleg Gordievsky, who was the top K.G.B. agent in London until he defected and became a double agent for British intelligence, died at 86. The five-member girl group NewJeans, K-pop’s most imaginative group of the last three years, seemed invincible. But now its members are locked in a legal battle with their powerhouse label over their contract and their desire to change the group’s name.
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