Secret JFK files being released by Trump today as cryptic conspiracy theories run wild: live updates

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The John F. Kennedy assassination files will be released in Tuesday in the afternoon, President Donald Trump said.

It will be published by the National Archives and Records Administration.

'We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files...people have been waiting for decades for this,' he said when on a tour of the late president's namesake performing arts center in D.C.

'That's going to be released tomorrow. We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading.'

Trump said they would come out 'tomorrow afternoon.'

President Donald Trump's call with Russian President Vladimir Putin started at 10 am ET, the White House said.

'The call is going well, and still in progress,' adviser Dan Scavino posted on X.

President Donald Trump taunted journalists from The Atlantic Magazine after they requested an interview, revisiting his long list of grievances with the publication for their opposition to his political career.

President Donald Trump was consulted by Israel before the country launched a series of attacks against Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip, the White House said.

'The Trump administration and the White House were consulted by the Israelis on their attacks on Gaza tonight. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News.

And she had a word of warning.

'As President Trump has made clear - Hamas, the Houthis, Iran - all those who seek to terrorize, not just Israel but the United States of America, will see a price to pay,' she said, adding: 'All hell will break loose.'

Donald Trump's release of the remaining JFK assassination files could contain 15 huge revelations, including a private letter Jackie Kennedy wrote to President Lyndon Johnson after her husband's death and missing 'conspiracy' footage.

The president has ordered all remaining 80,000 pages of secret JFK assassination files to be released Tuesday afternoon.

He said the massive trove is 'interesting' and previously said it would be unredacted, but gave little hint of what will be in it, leaving conspiracy theorists on tenterhooks.

The new files could include a missing original home movie of the assassination taken by bystander Orville Nix on November 22, 1963, according to the JFK Facts newsletter by leading expert on the assassination Jefferson Morley.

'The whole thing smells a bit fishy,' Dorothy Kilgallen wrote in her newspaper column on October 4, 1964.

'It's a mite too simple that a chap kills the President of the United States, escapes from that bother, kills a policeman, eventually is apprehended in a movie theater under circumstances that defy every law of police procedure, and subsequently is murdered under extraordinary circumstances.'

A famed investigative journalist, who was described by the New York Post in 1960 as 'the most powerful female voice in America', Kilgallen had spent the past 11 months digging into President John F Kennedy's assassination and was becoming one of the loudest voices questioning the official line from the FBI and the insistence that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

Vice President JD Vance vowed to slash regulations and cut taxes during an American Dynamism Summit in DC. – and brought up the issue of ‘loss of purpose’ when people lose their jobs.

In a speech with an academic flavor, Vance pondered the ‘tension’ between populism and a group he labeled ‘techno optimists’, and why he thinks they can be joined together.

Vance, who was a biotech executive early in his career, spoke of attending a Silcon Valley dinner and telling the CEO of a multi-billion company about losing middle class jobs. He said that ‘even if you replaced the financial element of their jobs, you would destroy something that was dignified and purposeful about work itself.’

As Vance recalled it, the executive responded that people could turn to ‘digital fully immersive gaming’ – at which point his wife Usha told her husband ‘we have to get the hell out of here. These people are f-ing crazy.’

Vance made the comment while calling for a ‘great American industrial comeback.’ He called cheap labor a ‘drug,’ although he did not mention thousands of DOGE-driven firings in the federal workforce that are underway.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor

Reps. Jamie Raskin and Gerry Connolly filed a lengthy FOIA request Tuesday asking the Trump Administration hand over detailed information about DOGE and 42 identified staff members amid mass firings and government reorganization.

The lawmakers, who hold the top Democratic spots on the Judiciary and Oversight committees, are in the minority and thus unable to use their posts to demand information using subpoena power.

Instead, they are relying on transparency laws seeking information on the ‘authority to shutter federal agencies and get rid of more than 100,000 federal employees.’ The Freedom of Information request seeks information on access to ‘personally identifiable or sensitive information’ on Americans. It seeks records on directives by DOGE, and information an application of Artificial Intelligence. The letter seeks final analysis on employee firings, the cancelling of federal contracts, and the nixing of federal leases, as well as firings of probationary employees.

Amid mystery about Musk’s team of young techies, the FOIA asks for information on the titles and employment status Elon Musk and 41 others.

It also asks for their resumes, ethics waivers, and non-disclosure agreements. Among the email communications the lawmakers want to see are key terms including Musk’s companies – ‘SpaceX’, ‘Starlink’, ‘Twitter,’ and ‘Boring Company’, ‘Tesla’ and others.

FOIA requests, which also are available to the media and the general public, can often lead to delays lasting months and heavily redacted information. The lawmakers cite Musk's 'refusal to meet with congressional Democrats' and refusal to respond to 'basic oversight requests.'

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The congresswoman heading the House Oversight Task Force on declassification of federal secrets said that the U.S. Natiuonal Archives will released the files on JFK's assassination.

Troves of secret documents related to the murder of John F. Kennedy will be published on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump vowed on Monday.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said she spike to the U.S. National Archives on Monday.

'All JFK files being released tomorrow will be housed at the below link,' she wrote on X with a link to NARA's webpage titled: The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) revealed last month there were 'two shooters' in the John F. Kennedy assassination.

The rising MAGA star launched a new task force that plans to expose some of the government's top secrets.

She and her team will declassify highly sought after documents about JFK's murder, and also files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump offered the board of the Kennedy Center his suggestions for artists to celebrate at its annual Honors ceremony and even offered to host the star-studded event himself.

'I don't want to, but I want this thing to be successful,' he told the board, according to a recording obtained by the Washington Post.

The Honors is the Kennedy Center's biggest event of the year and a massive fundraiser for the arts center. The ceremony, attended by both Republicans and Democrats, pays homage to leaders in the arts.

Trump had his own list of suggestions for who should be honored this year, including Paul Anka, Sylvester Stallone, Johnny Mathis and Andrea Bocelli. All of them supported his presidential campaign.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Elon Musk lauded DOGE's clean-up of the Social Security database, which had millions of impossibly-aged Americans still on file.

The Department of Government Efficiency, headed by the billionaire 'first buddy', discovered last month that the system for the U.S. Social Security Administration included millions of people above the age of 120 and even some into their 200's and 300's.

Musk jokingly called the efforts to delete these records a clearing of the 'dead people database.'

The DOGE X account posted overnight that the team has over the last two weeks marked as deceased 3.2 million people from the SSA database who were listed over the age of 120-years-old.

There are still millions, however, listed as living in these age brackets that the team is working to delete.

Former Senator Bob Menendez, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison on federal corruption charges, is appealing to Donald Trump to pardon his wife Nadine ahead of her trial on Tuesday.

Nadine Menendez was charged in the same bribery scheme as her husband but her trial was put on hold because she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to undergo treatment.

‘My wife, who had breast cancer reconstructive surgery just days ago, is being forced by the government to go to trial tomorrow. Only the arrogance of the SDNY can be so cruel and inhumane. They should let her fully recover!,’ Menendez wrote on X, tagging Trump.

She has pled not guilty.

Menendez, who is appealing his conviction, said after his trial: ‘President Trump is right — this process is political and it’s corrupted to the core,’ in what was widely seen as an appeal for his own clemency.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Files on the assassination of John F. Kennedy are set for release on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump said all 80,000 pages of records dubbed the ‘Kennedy files’ will be made public.

The vow came during his Monday tour of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., which was named after the late president in 1964 – a year after his assassination.

‘We have a tremendous amount of paper. You've got a lot of reading," Trump told reporters during his tour. "I don't believe we're going to redact anything. I said, 'Just don't redact. You can't redact.'"

‘I’m a man of my word,’ he added of the impending publication of the documents.

The only public event on Trump’s schedule Tuesday is his plan to sign even more executive orders in the afternoon.

President Donald Trump expressed confidence he'll get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine when he speaks with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and he is determined to do whatever he has to do in order to get it.

'We can work a peace agreement, a ceasefire and peace and I think we'll be able to do it,' Trump told reporters on Monday.