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<p>“I am not garbage,” said Warfa, who has started a series of successful businesses and now runs a nationwide education nonprofit, World Savvy. “I’m a proud American citizen.” </p><p>He notes that anti-immigration rhetoric has long been a powerful political tool, such as the Haitian migrants in Ohio who Trump vilified ahead of the 2024 elections. </p><p>“Last presidential election it was the Haitians and how they eat cats and dogs,” he said. “The next iteration now is Somalis.” </p>
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<p>Trump’s recent comments also came days after his administration announced it was halting all asylum decisions following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington. The suspect is originally from Afghanistan but Trump has raised questions about immigrants from other nations, including Somalia.</p><p>Also Tuesday, the administration said it was pausing all immigration applications for people from 19 countries, including Somalia, that were <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-travel-ban-d4d74e856e06f1a2626cc1ddbdfaa9f7">banned from travel</a></span> to the U.S. after the National Guard shooting.</p><p>Somali leaders and allies like Gov. Tim Walz and Frey have vowed to protect the community.</p><p>“Minneapolis is — and will remain — a city that stands up for our residents,” Frey said in a statement.</p>
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<p>Several Democratic legislators and Minneapolis City Council members held a news conference Wednesday to reinforce that message. </p><p>They called on Republican lawmakers to denounce the president’s attacks, saying history will judge them.</p><p>“Where are the Republicans now?” asked state Sen. Zaynab Mohamed, of Minneapolis, who said she had urged Republican political leaders to attend the news conference.</p><p>As for Warfa, he just wishes the rhetoric would die down. One of his daughters is a high school senior mulling her next steps. </p><div id="optimizelyHubpeekId" class="optimizelyHubpeekClass"></div><p>“I would rather spend time with my daughter thinking about college, and taking her to different college tours,” he said, instead of being “spoken about as garbage, you know, by the president of the United States.”</p>
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<p>The questions are expected to emerge Thursday during a classified congressional briefing with the commander that the Trump administration says ordered the second strike, Adm. Frank “Mitch” Bradley.</p>
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<p>The Pentagon did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment about the reported new details about the Sept. 2 attack. </p>
<p>Hegseth is under <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-hegseth-boat-strikes-e68621ec48c7886215359c0110d6d9ca">growing scrutiny</a></span> over the department’s strikes on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, and in particular the follow-on strike that reportedly killed survivors. Some <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/boat-strikes-survivors-hegseth-72b0a498ca08615b2589c772a1d9e642">legal experts</a></span> and lawmakers say that strike would have violated peacetime laws and those governing armed conflict. </p>
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<p>Hegseth has defended the second strike as emerging in the <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-trump-venezuela-540ae279827e02105e089f1bd5af37a6">“fog of war,”</a></span> saying during a Cabinet meeting this week at the White House that he didn’t see any survivors but also “didn’t stick around” for the rest of the mission. </p><p>The defense secretary has also said that Bradley, as the admiral in charge, “made the right call” in ordering the second hit, which he “had complete authority to do.”</p>
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<p>President Donald Trump was asked Wednesday whether he would release the video of the follow-on strike, as leading Democratic lawmakers have demanded. He replied: “I don’t know what they have, but whatever they have we’d certainly release. No problem,” he told reporters.</p><p>The Trump administration has said <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-cartels-armed-conflict-cb57804807e55a00ace60ad5f4d4f24d">the U.S. is in “armed conflict”</a></span> with drug cartels, even though Congress has not approved any authorization for the use of military force in the region. </p><p>A strike later in September has led to the family of a Colombian man <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-cartels-maduro-colombia-petro-boats-559a73dbfcbdc9245494f441be1aad39">filing a formal challenge</a></span> to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, arguing that his death was an extrajudicial killing. The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on Sept. 15 in violation of human rights conventions. </p><p>The follow-on strike on Sept. 2 was on the <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-strike-rubio-trump-0f901b2a30ee20e314bcab1385ffb0c0">first vessel hit</a></span> in what the Trump administration calls a counterdrug campaign that has grown to over <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-boat-strikes-caribbean-military-venezuela-timeline-2dd9d16f4f74d9dfa4aca76d3123678d">20 known strikes and more than 80 dead</a></span>.</p><p>The information about the follow-on strike was not presented to lawmakers during a classified briefing in September, in the days after the incident. It was disclosed later, one of the people said, and the explanation provided by the department has been broadly unsatisfactory to various members of the national security committees in Congress.</p><div id="optimizelyHubpeekId" class="optimizelyHubpeekClass"></div>
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<p>In a rare flex of bipartisan oversight, the Armed Services committees in both the House and Senate swiftly announced investigations into the strikes as lawmakers of both parties raise questions.</p><p>Bradley is scheduled to appear Thursday in a classified briefing with the panels’ two Republican chairmen and two ranking Democratic members.</p>
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<title>More angst-filled coaching changes are inevitable unless college football overhauls its calendar</title>
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<p>Lane Kiffin’s <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/lsu-lane-kiffin-4d33d595e63e8514845fe4af886c1449">awkward and angst-filled departure</a></span> from Ole Miss will happen again.</p><p>It’s inevitable unless college administrators and football coaches agree to reimagine an imperfect calendar that has been a mess for decades.</p><p>Under the current format, national signing day happens during conference championship week, the transfer portal opens during the <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/college-football-playoff-rankings-kiffin-a6e18455a3ea84e77535331d1fbfb01f">College Football Playoff</a></span> and some coaches are secretly interviewing for other jobs before Halloween.</p><p>Clunky and clumsy at best. Chaotic and conflicted might be more accurate.</p><p>No one has an ideal solution. Even the thought of adopting an NFL-like format seems flawed.</p><p>“You want the best idea? Blow it up and start from scratch,” UNLV coach Dan Mullen said. “It’s a shame you’re going to lose a lot of things that are great in college football, but you already have.”</p><p>Three Southeastern Conference programs — Florida, LSU and Ole Miss — <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/ole-miss-kiffin-lsu-florida-4bdcfadc8fc818d54a78408fa7289252">courted Kiffin for weeks</a></span> before he <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/lane-kiffin-lsu-ole-miss-466baa88620fb994ea8677f0b71db986">finally picked the Tigers and left the other two fanbases in emotional shambles</a></span>. The Gators <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/florida-jon-sumrall-653c82e31223f33026c8c2b4d5c4db30">pivoted to Tulane coach Jon Sumrall</a></span>; the Rebels stayed in-house and promoted defensive coordinator Pete Golding.</p>
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<p>Florida and Ole Miss were left trying to convince themselves they’re better off without Kiffin. Anyone who has witnessed his messy exits from basically every job he’s held might not have needed much convincing.</p>
<p>But the real villain is a college football calendar that essentially forces teams to scramble to get coaches in place before signing day for high school recruits, which was moved last year from the third to the first Wednesday in December.</p><div class="Infobox" data-module="" data-gtm-region="Think you know who belongs in the Top 25? Now it’s your turn to vote with the AP Top 25 fan poll." data-align-center="">
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<p>Even in an era of the quick fix through the transfer portal, football teams need high school athletes to build out rosters. What happens when things go bad? Take a look at Penn State, which fired its coach in October but has yet to hire a replacement. The Nittany Lions have lost dozens of commitments in recent days, have locked down just a handful of signees, all of which has prominent boosters demanding answers. </p>
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<h2>While Kiffin left right away, some others finish out the season at their ‘old’ jobs </h2><p>A handful of Power Four schools hired Group of Five head coaches and allowed them to remain in place even though it made for a trickier signing day. </p><p>Kiffin, meanwhile, wanted to coach the Rebels through the CFP but was told no thanks; Ole Miss officials surely didn’t want him having daily contact with players who could follow him to Baton Rouge.</p><p>“Somebody’s got to get all this stuff under control,” said new Oklahoma State coach Eric Morris, who is remaining with North Texas through the season. “Just makes no sense at any level that we’re sitting here talking about people that are going to be in the College Football Playoff, a team and their coach isn’t going to be there to help them get through the whole entire season.</p><p>“It’s not sustainable. There are so many things that are not sustainable right now in what we’re doing.”</p>
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<h2>Signing day a moving target for decades</h2><p>Since the early 1980s, the much-anticipated — often overhyped — signing day had been in early February. It seemed perfectly placed, set weeks after the last bowl games had been played and a national champion had been crowned.</p><p>But coaches grew tired of having to continuously court high school kids during the football season and wanted a chance to lock them up long before February. In response, the NCAA delivered an early signing period in 2017.</p><p>That worked well for a while. But with the CFP expanding the postseason and stretching games well into January, the early signing period started to muddy the calendar.</p><p>It prompts ADs to fire struggling coaches in the middle of the season to get a jump on their search for a replacement, and the transfer portal made roster management even messier.</p><p>“It’s a game of musical chairs, and we all know what happens to the guy who doesn’t get a seat,” Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin said.</p><p>Stricklin has a solution, or at least a working theory of something that might work. His idea includes eliminating spring practice, moving signing day back to February, opening the transfer portal between March and April, and mandating that only players who were with a team last season can take part in offseason conditioning programs. And then newcomers would be allowed to join for summer workouts that would include the 15 practices normally held in the spring.</p>
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<p>“Coaches don’t want to hear that because they think, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve got to have eight months before I kick the ball off with these kids,’” Stricklin said. … “The football schedules combined with the semester structure, and the idea that everybody wants their teams put together in January, unless we fix that, it’s never going to work.”</p><p>Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire had a different suggestion. He wants to start the season a week earlier than usual, play conference title games over Thanksgiving weekend and play postseason games every seven days.</p><p>“You could play the national championship on January 1st and then the portal would open on January 2nd, so the season would actually be over,” he said. “Until you do that, we’re still going to have this.”</p>
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<h2>Would an NFL-style calendar be the best solution?</h2><p>There has been rampant talk about college football adopting an NFL-style calendar, which would mean coaching movement after the season in January and February, player movement in March and then team workouts after. And there are penalties for tampering with coaches and players under contract.</p><p>McGuire said colleges should consider something similar. He offered that teams who hire coaches who leave other teams in the middle of a playoff run — much like Kiffin did at Ole Miss — would be ineligible for the CFP the following year. He added that those coaches making a jump would not be allowed to bring players with them.</p><p>“They can get in the transfer portal, but they’ve got to go somewhere else; they can’t follow you,” he said. “Until there’s some penalties in that, we’re going to get the same thing over and over.”</p><p>And it will lead to more Kiffin-like exits and fanbase excitability.</p><p>“Does anybody have a perfect solution? No,” Mullen said. “Here’s why: There are 136 Division I teams. There’s a lot of different conferences. Every one of those 136 teams operates on a different schedule. I know it’s like, ‘Hey, let’s look at a pro model.’”</p><p>Maybe the biggest problem with the pro model is that, even though college sports look more like the pros every day, there is still school — and a school calendar — involved.</p><p>“Then let’s go to every president and every chancellor and say, ‘If you’re a Division I school, classes start on this day and end on that day.’ That’s a way to fix it because then you can really set the calendar. But it’s hard when some people are on quarters, some people are on trimester, some are on semester. … When everybody’s working on a different calendar, it’s hard to come up with the exact thing.”</p><p>___</p><p>AP Sports Writers Mark Anderson in Las Vegas, Cliff Brunt in Oklahoma City, Stephen Hawkins in Dallas, Charles Odum in Atlanta and Teresa Walker in Nashville, Tennessee, contributed.</p><p>___</p><div id="optimizelyHubpeekId" class="optimizelyHubpeekClass"></div><p>Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://www.apnews.com/newsletters">here</a></span> and <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/ap-newsletters">here</a></span> (AP News mobile app). AP college football: <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll">https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll</a></span> and <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/hub/college-football">https://apnews.com/hub/college-football</a></span></p>
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<title>Steve Cropper, member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, has died at age 84</title>
<description><p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics “Green Onions,” "(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” and “In the Midnight Hour,” has died. He was 84.</p><p>Pat Mitchell Worley, president and CEO of the Soulsville Foundation, said Cropper’s family told her that Cropper died on Wednesday in Nashville. The foundation operates the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, located at the site of the former Stax Records, where Cropper worked for years. </p><p>A cause of death was not immediately known. Longtime associate Eddie Gore said he was with Cropper on Tuesday at a rehabilitation facility in Nashville, where Cropper had been after a recent fall. Cropper had been working on new music when Gore visited, he said.</p>
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<p>“He’s such a good human,” Gore said. “We were blessed to have him, for sure.”</p><p>The guitarist, songwriter and record producer was not known for flashy playing, but his spare, catchy licks and solid rhythm chops helped define Memphis soul music. At a time when it was common for white musicians to co-opt the work of Black artists and make more money from their songs, Cropper was that rare white artist willing to keep a lower profile and collaborate.</p>
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<h2>‘Play it, Steve!’</h2><p>Cropper’s very name was immortalized in the 1967 smash “Soul Man,” recorded by Sam &amp; Dave. Midway, singer Sam Moore calls out “Play it, Steve!” as Cropper pulls off a tight, ringing riff, a slide sound that Cropper used a Zippo lighter to create. The exchange was reenacted in the late 1970s when Cropper joined the John Belushi-Dan Aykroyd act “The Blues Brothers” and played on their hit cover of “Soul Man.”</p><p>In a 2020 <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/steve-cropper-music-tennessee-memphis-e304055b87d27e3eae36c44fa456d199">interview with The Associated Press</a></span>, Cropper discussed his career and how he mastered the art of filling gaps with an essential lick or two.</p><p>“I listen to the other musicians and the singer,” Cropper said. “I’m not listening to just me. I make sure I’m sounding OK before we start the session. Once we’ve presented the song, then I listen to the song and the way they interpret it. And I play around all that stuff. That’s what I do. That’s my style.”</p><p>Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, asked once about Cropper, said simply, “Perfect, man.” On a YouTube instructional video, guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa says Cropper’s moves are often copied.</p><p>“If you haven’t heard the name Steve Cropper, you’ve heard him in song,” Bonamassa said.</p><h2>He got his first guitar at 14 </h2><p>Cropper was born near Dora, Missouri, but moved with his family to Memphis when he was 9 and got his first mail-order guitar at age 14, according to his website, <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://playitsteve.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">playitsteve.com.</a></span> Chuck Berry, Jimmy Reed and Chet Atkins were among his early influences. </p><p>Cropper was a Stax artist before the label was even called Stax, which Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton had founded as Satellite Records in 1957. In the early 1960s, Satellite signed up Cropper and his instrumental band the Royals Spades. The band soon changed its name to the Mar-Keys and had a hit with “Last Night.” </p>
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<p>Satellite soon was later renamed Stax, where some of the Mar-Keys became the label’s horn section while Cropper and other Mar-Keys formed Booker T. and the M.G.’s. Featuring Cropper, keyboard player Booker T. Jones, bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn and drummer Al Jackson, they were known for their hit instrumentals “Green Onions,” “Hang ‘Em High” and “Time Is Tight,” and backed Otis Redding, Sam &amp; Dave and others. </p><p>The racially integrated band, a rarity in its day, was so admired that even non-Stax artists recorded with them, notably Wilson Pickett. Jones, who is the only surviving member of the band, and Jackson are Black. Dunn and Cropper are white.</p><p>“When you walked in the door at Stax, there was absolutely no color,” Cropper said in the AP interview. “We were all there for the same reason — to get a hit record.”</p>
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<h2>Inspired by gospel song</h2><p>In the mid-1960s, Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler brought Pickett to work with the Stax musicians. During a 2015 gathering with the National Music Publishers Association, Cropper acknowledged he had never heard of Pickett before working with him. He found some gospel recordings by Pickett, was taken by the line “I’ll see my Jesus in the midnight hour” and with a slight change helped write a secular standard.</p><p>“The man up there has been forgiving me for this ever since!” he said.</p><p>Cropper was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as a member of Booker T. and the M.G.'s. That year, Cropper, Dunn and Jones played in an all-star tribute at Madison Square Garden to Bob Dylan. Al Jackson died in 1975, Dunn in 2012.</p><p>Rolling Stone magazine ranked Cropper 39th on its 100 Greatest Guitarists list, calling him “the secret ingredient in some of the greatest rock and soul songs.”</p><p>Cropper was especially close to Redding. In an interview on his website, Cropper recalled collaborating on “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay,” completed shortly before Redding’s death in a December 1967 plane crash and a No. 1 hit in 1968.</p>
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<p>The brooding, folkish ballad was a bittersweet reflection on his triumphant appearance a few months earlier at the Monterey Pop Festival. Cropper would remember adding the final touches on the recording while still grieving for Redding.</p><p>“We had been looking for the crossover song,” he said. “This song, we knew we had it.”</p><p>Cropper was in the 1980 movie “The Blues Brothers” and its follow-up, “Blues Brothers 2000,” portraying “The Colonel” in the Blues Brothers band. In real life, he toured with them.</p><p>He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005, and two years later received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement. </p><div id="optimizelyHubpeekId" class="optimizelyHubpeekClass"></div><p>Cropper continued recording into his later years, including 2024’s “Friendlytown,” which was nominated for a Grammy. Earlier this year, Cropper received the Tennessee Governor’s Arts Award, the state’s highest honor in the arts. </p><p>___</p><p>Associated Press National Writer Hillel Italie contributed reporting from New York.</p><p>___</p><p>Online: http://playitsteve.com</p>
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<title>Pentagon watchdog says Hegseth's use of Signal posed risk to US personnel</title>
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-messaging-app-attack-plans-f8581bcb447b91d2e7f9cb7809ae0f06">The Pentagon’s watchdog</a></span> found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-atlantic-war-plans-signal-yemen-houthis-c0addd08c627ab01a37ea63621cb695e">used the Signal messaging app</a></span> to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants, two people familiar with the findings said Wednesday.</p><p>Hegseth, however, has the ability to declassify material and the report did not find he did so improperly, according to one of the people familiar with the findings who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the information. That person also said the report concluded that Hegseth violated Pentagon policy by using his personal device for official business and it recommended better training for all Pentagon officials.</p><div class="Infobox" data-module="" data-gtm-region="From AP’s Standards and Stylebook teams: The AP is using anonymous sourcing to provide information for this story. Click here to hear Washington Bureau Chief Anna Johnson explain AP’s policy on the use of anonymous sources." data-align-center="">
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<p>Hegseth declined to sit for an interview with the Pentagon’s inspector general but provided a written statement, that person said. The defense secretary asserted that he was permitted to declassify information as he saw fit and only communicated details he thought would not endanger the mission.</p>
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<p>The initial findings, which were first reported by CNN, <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-hegseth-boat-strikes-e68621ec48c7886215359c0110d6d9ca">ramp up the pressure</a></span> on the former Fox News Channel host after lawmakers called for the independent inquiry into his use of the <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/signal-app-atlantic-war-plans-32699da142c5209b845e57f690df4925">commercially available app</a></span>. </p>
<p>Lawmakers also just opened investigations into a news report that <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-hegseth-maduro-512c66b99b2a13e9d1a3ed2699e78228">a follow-up strike</a></span> on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea in September killed survivors after Hegseth issued a verbal order to “kill everybody.”</p>
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<p>Hegseth <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-trump-venezuela-540ae279827e02105e089f1bd5af37a6">defended the strike as emerging in the “fog of war</a></span>,” saying he didn’t see any survivors but also “didn’t stick around” for the rest of the mission and that the admiral in charge “made the right call” in ordering the second strike. He also did not admit fault following the Signal revelations, asserting that the information was unclassified.</p><p>“The Inspector General review is a TOTAL exoneration of Secretary Hegseth and proves what we knew all along — no classified information was shared,” Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman said in a statement. “This matter is resolved, and the case is closed.” </p><p>President Donald Trump “stands by” Hegseth, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, adding that the probe affirms that “no classified information was leaked, and operational security was not compromised.”</p>
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<h2>Journalist was added to a chat where sensitive plans were shared</h2><p>In at least two separate Signal chats, Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women carrying out those attacks on behalf of the United States were airborne.</p><p>Hegseth’s use of the app came to light when a journalist, <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-atlantic-war-plans-signal-yemen-houthis-c0addd08c627ab01a37ea63621cb695e">Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic</a></span>, was inadvertently added to a Signal text chain by <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-waltz-rubio-national-security-hegseth-d787db43d45922668ad0c1c62e608f85">then-national security adviser Mike Waltz</a></span>. It included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and others, brought together to discuss March 15 military operations against the Iran-backed Houthis.</p><p>Hegseth had created <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-houthis-attack-8dbf9dd6c711796438a5c1c84831c40b">another Signal chat</a></span> with 13 people that included his wife and brother where he shared similar details of the same strike, The Associated Press reported. </p>
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<p>Signal is encrypted but is not authorized for carrying classified information and is not part of the Pentagon’s secure communications network. </p><p>Hegseth previously has said none of the information shared in the chats was classified. Multiple current and former military officials have told the AP there was no way details with that specificity, especially before a strike took place, would have been OK to share on an unsecured device.</p><p>The review was delivered to lawmakers, who were able to review the report in a classified facility at the Capitol. A partially redacted version of the report was expected to be released publicly later this week.</p><p>Hegseth said he viewed the investigation as a partisan exercise and did not trust the inspector general, according to one of the people familiar with the report’s findings. The review had to rely on screenshots of the Signal chat published by the Atlantic because Hegseth could not provide more than a small handful of his Signal messages, the person said.</p><p>When asked about the investigation in August, Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told reporters that “we believe that this is a witch hunt and a total sham and being conducted in bad faith.”</p>
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<h2>Lawmakers had called for inspector general to investigate</h2><p>The revelations sparked intense scrutiny, with Democratic lawmakers and a small number of Republicans saying Hegseth posting the information to the Signal chats before the military jets had reached their targets <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-pentagon-trump-30dc4c3d0e75a89f3fd883f38b26afff">potentially put those pilots’ lives at risk</a></span>. They said lower-ranking members of the military would have been fired for such a lapse. </p><p>Some Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees suggested Wednesday that Hegseth’s actions would be a fireable offense for anyone else.</p><p>“This was not an isolated lapse. It reflects a broader pattern of recklessness and poor judgment from a secretary who has repeatedly shown he is in over his head,” Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia said in a statement.</p><p>The inspector general had <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-messaging-app-attack-plans-f8581bcb447b91d2e7f9cb7809ae0f06">opened its investigation</a></span> into Hegseth at the request of the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and the committee’s top Democrat, Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island.</p>
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<h2>It all ties back to the campaign against Yemen’s Houthis</h2><p>The Houthi rebels had started launching <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/yemen-houthi-israel-hamas-red-sea-shipping-ab6fee82e73170b7e2edbab90ed6c14c">missile and drone attacks</a></span> against commercial and military ships in late 2023 in what their leadership had described as an <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/video/israel-hamas-war-yemen-red-sea-rebellions-and-uprisings-yemen-government-35148e6fbef64ec8b6fa074d4da2551c">effort to end</a></span> Israel’s offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Their campaign greatly reduced the flow of trade through the Red Sea corridor, which typically sees $1 trillion of goods move through it annually.</p><p>The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthis in 2024 turned into the most intense running sea battle the Navy had faced since World War II. </p><p>A ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war had begun in January before falling apart in March. The U.S. then launched a broad assault against the Houthis that <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-houthis-end-of-bombing-yemen-israel-e2f08ac04024ef3d6409b4ce97092489">ended weeks later</a></span> when Trump said they pledged to stop attacking ships. The latest Gaza ceasefire began in October.</p><p>Following the disclosure of Hegseth’s Signal chat that included the Atlantic’s editor, the magazine <span class="LinkEnhancement"><a class="Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA" href="https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-atlantic-war-plans-signal-yemen-houthis-c0addd08c627ab01a37ea63621cb695e">released the entire thread</a></span> in late March. Hegseth had posted multiple details about an impending strike, using military language and laying out when a “strike window” starts, where a “target terrorist” was located, the time elements around the attack and when various weapons and aircraft would be used in the strike. He mentioned that the U.S. was “currently clean” on operational security.</p><div id="optimizelyHubpeekId" class="optimizelyHubpeekClass"></div><p>Hegseth told Fox News Channel in April that what he shared over Signal was “informal, unclassified coordinations, for media coordinations and other things.” </p><p>___</p><p>Associated Press writer Stephen Groves, Konstantin Toropin, Michelle L. Price and David Klepper contributed to this report.</p>
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