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from NPR. Live from NPR news, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The White House says it has closed its

investigation into how a journalist was invited into a group chat of high-ranking officials

discussing strike plans. NPR's Frank O'Ordonias reports a White House did not offer any details of what it found.

Speaking outside the White House, press secretary Caroline Levitt said that President Trump continues to have confidence in the national security advisor, Mike Walts.

Waltz took responsibility for adding the Atlantic editors-in-chief to the group chat of top officials

discussing plans to launch strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen. Last week, the White House said it was

reviewing how the journalist was added. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill also called for an investigation.

But Levitt said today they have completed their review. This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned.

There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again.

Leavitt did not offer any details, though, on what steps were taken.

Franco, Ordonez, and PR News, the White House.

Astronauts, Bush, Wilmore, and Sunny Williams have held their first news conference since they got back home from the International Space Station nearly two weeks ago.

They had traveled to the ISS on a test flight of Boeing Starliner, part of NASA's commercial spaceflight program.

The plan was eight days, but they ended up staying more than nine months after Starliner experienced a series of problems, and the call was made to get it back to Earth without its crew.

In order for Williams and Wilmore to hitch a ride home on SpaceX's crew 9 Dragon capsule, two other astronauts, Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson had to give up their seats.

Today, Williams was asked about the

hugs she gave Cardman when she first got off the plane in Houston. I told her that I used her

crew nine shirt when we were up there for a photo up, but I packed it back up real nicely and put

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