Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed the exact time that American fighter jets would take off for strikes against Houthi fighters in Yemen to an unclassified commercial group chat that inadvertently included a journalist. The nation's top intelligence officials, two of whom were on the chat, were pressed today on Capitol Hill about the extraordinary security breach. Trump announced today the U.S. would impose a 25 percent tariffs on all imported cars, beginning on April 2. The Trump administration told Congress this week that it intended to terminate U.S. financial support for Gavi, an organization that has helped save millions of lives by purchasing critical vaccines for children in developing countries. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan's military chief, said today that 'Khartoum is now free,' as the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group, withdrew in large numbers from the capital city, which they had occupied since civil war broke out nearly two years ago.

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