Donald Trump announced during a visit to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., that 80,000 pages of unredacted files related to the assassination of President John F Kennedy will be released tomorrow afternoon.
The president was at the performing arts venue, named after the slain president, to attend a board meeting.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has deported hundreds of people from the U.S. after invoking a wartime law to speed up the deportations of individuals connected to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in defiance of a court order.
A federal judge temporarily blocked the administration’s ability to use the law, the Alien Enemies Act 1798, and ordered any planes flying migrants out of the country to turn around.
Border czar Tom Homan told Fox News: “We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming.”
Meanwhile, Donald Trump declared that presidential pardons issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden, are “void, vacant, and of no further force or effect” because the Democrat allegedly signed off on them using an autopen rather than his real signature.
He voted for Trump. Now his Peruvian wife is stuck in ICE custody
A Wisconsin man who voted for President Donald Trump is devastated after his Peruvian wife was detained by Immigration Customs and Enforcement.
Newlyweds Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz were on their way home after honeymooning in Puerto Rico last month when they were pulled aside by an immigration agent at the airport.
Rhian Lubin reports.
French official calls for US to give back Statue of Liberty
Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament, made the remarks at a convention of the Place Publique center-left movement Sunday.
Michelle Del Rey has the story.
MAGA is obsessed with the Epstein files — Why?
As we await the release of supposedly unredacted files relating to the assassination of President John F Kennedy, due Tuesday afternoon, Rhian Lubin takes a look at the last rollout of supposedly bombshell government files.
A former Proud Boys leader was freed from a 17-year prison sentence by Trump. Then his problems began
Richard Hall writes:
On the day Joe Biggs found out he was being released from a lengthy jail sentence by the newly inaugurated Donald Trump, a prison officer was on hand to dampen his mood.
“You’re still gonna get screwed,” Biggs recalls the guard warning him. “You’re not getting pardoned. You’re only getting your sentence commuted, so you’re still a terrorist.”
It would turn out to be a prescient parting shot.
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National Institutes of Health officials reportedly told scientists to erase mRNA vaccine references on grants
One vaccine scientist based in New York funded by the agency was warned that references to mRNA vaccines should not appear in any future applications after referring to them in previous ones.
Rhian Lubin has the details.
After Trump dismantles Voice of America, journalists sound off on ‘betrayal’
In what is being described as “Bloody Saturday,” over 1,300 employees at Voice of America were placed on indefinite suspension this weekend after President Donald Trump issued a Friday night edict ordering the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the network’s parent agency, to eliminate its workforce and activities not required by law.
With the state-funded broadcaster — which has been seen as a vital part of America’s soft diplomacy — going largely silent after more than 80 years on the air, VOA journalists and executives are sounding off over what they see as a “betrayal of the ideals” that drove the organization, adding that it will only be “celebrated” by America’s adversaries.
Justin Baragona reports.
Green card-holding German national arrested at Boston airport
The family of a German national who has been in the U.S. on a green card for 17 years and was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport has no idea why he is being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Rhian Lubin reports.
ANALYSIS: The economy was always Trump’s strength. Polls show it might be cracking
Eric Garcia takes a look at some of the latest polling numbers and what they might mean for the president.
If Trump is on a ‘lawbreaking spree’ as critics say, can the courts stop him?
Alex Woodward wrote in February:
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented power grabs within his first three weeks in office have provoked an opposite and equal reaction in the form of an avalanche of lawsuits.
Now, how far the president can plunge the United States into a constitutional crisis could depend on a handful of federal judges.
Americans should be prepared for the administration to ignore them, “unless and until there’s real enforcement, either by law enforcement or by the Supreme Court,” says Ty Cobb, a former White House counsel during Trump’s first administration.
“The real question is, will Trump honor those orders?” Cobb tells The Independent.
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COMMENT: In the JFK files, there’ll be no smoking gun – only bombshells
John Kiriakou writes:
But the biggest mystery is why it has taken so long.
Congress mandated the documents’ declassification and release in 1992, and yet every president since George H. W. Bush has declined to do so.
However, as someone who has worked for the CIA as an intelligence officer – and who was jailed for 23 months for blowing the whistle on interrogation techniques – I would posit that there is nothing interesting about the JFK assassination left to be released.
Far more interesting will be the classified files about the assassinations of his brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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In the JFK files, there’ll be no smoking gun – only bombshells
Source: independent.co.uk