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Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Signal texts on Houthi attack

Critics have blasted top Trump officials for using Signal to discuss sensitive military information [Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo]

A federal judge has announced he will order the United States government to preserve messages from a Signal chat where top officials discussed plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen.

That chat has since become the subject of a national controversy, stemming from the accidental inclusion of a journalist from The Atlantic magazine in the discussion, which revealed sensitive military information.

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