A judge has ordered the Trump administration to preserve the contents of the Signal app chat in which top officials discussed Yemen military strikes earlier this month.

The Pentagon's Inspector General's office announced on Thursday it was opening a probe into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of an unclassified commercial texting application to coordinate on the highly sensitive March 15 launch of U.

Hegseth and other top administration officials have said that no classified information was shared in a Signal messaging app chat group.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered key Trump administration agencies to preserve messages sent on Signal between March 11 to March 15.

The fallout continues over a security breach in which high-ranking members of the Trump administration accidentally shared plans about a forthcoming U.S. military attack on Yemen with the top editor of the Atlantic magazine on the Signal messaging app.

Defence chief Pete Hegseth and others coordinated March 15 US military strikes in messaging app conversation that included journalist The Pentagon's Inspector General's office said on Thursday it was opening an investigation into US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of an unclassified commercial texting app to coordinate on the highly sensitive

The high-level Trump administration Signal message thread on bombing Yemen on which someone on the staff of National Security Adviser Michael Waltz included The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg is what is impolitely called in the military a SNAFU (Situation Normal All F*cked Up).

The nonprofit American Oversight sued Trump Cabinet members to force them to preserve Signal messages that could otherwise be automatically deleted.

President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to 43%, the lowest since his return to office, as Americans soured on his tariff moves and his administration's handling of information about a military strike in Yemen,