In the US, daily downloads tripled to more than 60,000. In Yemen, where the app is less popular, downloads increased by five times to more than 1,000 per day, bringing the platform from No. 50 in the iOS social media app rankings to No. 9 in the country today.

The White House continued to downplay the seriousness of the incident, parsing semantics and attacking the journalist who was inadvertently added to the chat.

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.

The Pentagon’s internal watchdog notified the defense secretary of a probe into whether he shared classified information last month in a Signal group chat that included a journalist.

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.

WASHINGTON — The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee are requesting an expedited investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leak of information about an imminent U.S. attack on Houthi militants in Yemen.

What did they think about the national security breach, in which Trump administration officials discussed attack plans in Yemen on a commercial messaging app?

President Trump suggested Wednesday that the encrypted Signal messaging platform his top national security brass used to plan out a mid-March strike against the Houthis may be

Israel reportedly supplied sensitive intelligence about a human target discussed in a Signal chat that included a journalist.