JFK files to be released by Trump today as anticipation builds around what's really inside: Live updates

By KATELYN CARALLE SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER

Published: 11:38 GMT, 18 March 2025 | Updated: 13:33 GMT, 18 March 2025

President Donald Trump declared that he will be releasing over 80,000 pages of secret documents related to the assassination of JFK.

He said the massive trove is ‘interesting’ but gave little hint of what will be in it, leaving conspiracy theorists on tenterhooks.

Trump said: ‘We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files…people have been waiting for decades for this.

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

Trump is also set to hold a call with Russia’s Putin today to discuss the ceasefire with Ukraine.

It’s the first time the two leaders will speak during Trump’s second term in office.

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What time will JFK files be released?

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.’

Lawmaker leading government secrets release says there were TWO shooters in JFK assassination

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.

Trump offers to host Kennedy Center Honors

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.

Elon Musk praises DOGE for ‘cleaning up the dead people database’ at the Social Security Administration

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.

Nadine Menendez goes on trial today

FILE - Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife Nadine Menendez arrive at the federal courthouse in New York, Sept. 27, 2023. Menendez said Thursday, May 16, 2024, that his wife has breast cancer and will require a mastectomy, a revelation made just as the presentation of evidence began at his New York bribery trial. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)

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.

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.

JFK assassination files will be released TODAY, Trump vows

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.

Trump could give Putin big win with Crimea

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.