President Donald Trump is standing by his national security adviser following the accidental inclusion of a journalist in a Signal group chat about highly sensitive plans believed to involve bombing Houthi terrorist targets in Yemen. Trump stated today that no classified information was shared and that national security adviser Mike Waltz should not apologize. Waltz, in turn, says he never communicated with the reporter in question.

The Senate Intelligence Committee held its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment Hearing today with the Trump administration's new intelligence chiefs. For the first time ever, transnational criminal organizations top the list in the Worldwide Threat Assessment from the U.S. intelligence community.

The United States announced progress in talks with Russia and Ukraine on the third day of cease-fire negotiations in Saudi Arabia. Russia and Ukraine have officially agreed to the details of a limited cease-fire, with attacks on energy facilities and ships in the Black Sea now supposed to stop.

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