New Messages From Government Signal Group Released; SCOTUS Upholds Federal 'Ghost Guns' Restrictions

The Atlantic on Wednesday published more messages from the Signal group that included top U.S. officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on social media platform X that “The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans.’” Should taxpayer dollars be used to fund public media? That’s the heart of the question of a hearing on Capitol Hill today. The Oversight committee's DOGE panel is probing the CEO’s of NPR and PBS. Republicans accuse the outlets of reporting bias in favor of Democrats, while democrats say there are bigger issues at hand that should take priority. The Supreme Court upheld a regulation targeting largely untraceable "ghost guns" imposed by the previous administration in a crackdown on firearms whose use has proliferated in crimes nationwide, finding the measure to be consistent with a 1968 federal law.