The White House on Monday confirmed that top Trump administration officials inadvertently included a journalist in a group chat about US military plans.

The chat on the Signal messaging app about upcoming military strikes reportedly included several members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, published a story on Monday in which he said he initially thought it could not be real.

"I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans," he wrote.

Goldberg said he was added to a chat named "Houthi PC small group," where plans for

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