Newly released Signal texts showed what was at stake. More messages were published yesterday from a Signal group chat between President Trump's top security officials that laid out plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen and that inadvertently included the editor in chief of The Atlantic. Democrats have called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to step down, saying he had behaved recklessly by revealing the precise timing of the strikes on Houthi targets and could have endangered American troops. Cease-fire talks are helping Russia buy time. Conflicting statements from Russia, the U.S. and Ukraine this week on the state of cease-fire negotiations are the latest sign of a chaotic process in which, analysts and experts said, the Kremlin appears to be playing for time and getting the upper hand. The opposition in Turkey called for a mass demonstration to protest the jailing of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main rival last week, as well as for a boycott of companies said to support the president.