Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s secretary of defense, inadvertently included the top editor of The Atlantic in a Signal text chat group revealing the U.S.’s attack plans on Houthi rebels in Yemen earlier this month, according to the magazine. The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported in a nearly 3,500-word story published Monday that the U.S.’s most senior national-security leaders included him in a group chat on Signal about upcoming military strikes in Yemen against the Houthis, an Iran-backed terrorist group. “I didn’t think it could be real,” he wrote. “Then the bombs started falling.” https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-pete-hegseth-texted-war-plans-atlantic-editor-1236346637/