In the day's other headlines, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threatened possible criminal prosecution against former staff he accused of leaking information.

That information involved Hegseth sharing airstrike logistics in another chat over the Signal messaging app, this one, including his wife and brother.

On his former Fox show this morning, Heggset again denied sharing any classified information on Signal.

Instead, he honed in on the internal investigation

and recent removals of several of his top staff.

We took it seriously.

It led to some unfortunate places,

people I have known for quite some time,

but it's not my job to protect them.

When that evidence is gathered sufficiently, and this has all happened very quickly,

it will be handed over to DOJ, and those people will be prosecuted if necessary.

The Pentagon's Inspector General is investigating the Secretary and staff's use of the signal app.

Today, the White House again defended Hegsef as he

faces mounting criticism about his job performance. Secretary Marco Rubio instituted a sweeping

reorganization of the State Department today. That includes cuts and the elimination of a key

office that advances American values abroad. Some of the duties of that office

will be folded into other parts of the department, but few details were provided. Rubio also announced

that state plans to cut 15 percent of its U.S.-based employees. Turning overseas now, Russia is

ramping up its attacks across Ukraine after Moscow claimed

to have observed a brief Easter ceasefire.

Overnight, crews battled burning buildings after Russian drones hit the port city of Odessa.

Hours later, Russian glide bombs struck Zaporizia, killing one woman.

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