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Black Sea deal; Signal app; Return to office order : NPR

Last updated: March 26, 2025 4:30 am
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard faced tough questioning from U.S. senators yesterday regarding a security breach that exposed secret war plans to a journalist. Both were part of a group chat on the app Signal, along with The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. Discussions in the chat revolved around the U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen. This messaging platform is not a secure U.S. government communication system.



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  • 🎧 Ratcliffe clarified that U.S. officials are permitted to use Signal for government communication. Both Ratcliffe and Gabbard confirmed that no classified information was shared in the chat from an intelligence standpoint, according to NPR’s Ryan Lucas on Up First. They added that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds the authority to determine the classification of specific military information regarding the airstrikes. Lucas reports that leading House and Senate Democrats have called for an investigation into the breach.

Under the Trump administration’s directive for federal employees to return to the office, some have encountered shortages of desks, Wi-Fi, toilet paper, and more. One remote Department of Agriculture employee was provided with a list of potential work locations, one of which turned out to be a storage unit. Upon visiting, the employee confirmed it was indeed a storage facility.

  • 🎧 The owner of the storage unit informed the employee that the federal government rents a unit at that site to store a boat. The employee will not be working from that unit. This scenario underscores the confusion experienced by some federal workers regarding the return-to-work mandate, as described by NPR’s Shannon Bond. Many offices are ill-equipped to accommodate the influx of employees, leading to additional costs for the government.
See also  The Signal Chat Scandal—A Tempest in a Teacup, Not an Actionable Offense |

After three days of talks in Saudi Arabia, the White House disclosed yesterday that Ukraine and Russia have made progress toward a peace agreement. The countries have tentatively agreed to cease fighting in the Black Sea, ensuring the resumption of free commercial shipping in the region.

  • 🎧 The White House has shifted its approach from a comprehensive ceasefire to pursuing smaller, targeted ceasefires as steps toward broader peace, as reported by NPR’s Charles Maynes. The timing and conditions for implementing the partial ceasefire are unclear. The Kremlin stated that the deal would only take effect once the U.S. resolves sanctions-related obstacles to Russian maritime trade. Essentially, Moscow demands that the U.S. address issues that derailed a previous U.N.-brokered agreement aimed at facilitating the export of Russian and Ukrainian agricultural products to global markets. Maynes notes that the U.S. cannot unilaterally remove all barriers without the agreement of European allies.

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