The president has been trailing his phone call with his Russian counterpart this morning, once more striking an optimistic note.

Here’s Mark Almond on what to expect.

Joe Sommerlad18 March 2025 10:40

As America braces itself for thousands of declassified CIA documents, former intelligence officer John Kiriakou explains why there isn’t much light left to shed on the presidential assassination – but we should expect intriguing detail about the ‘second gunman’ theory in the killing of his brother Robert.

In the JFK files, there’ll be no smoking gun – only bombshells

As America braces itself for thousands of declassified CIA documents, former intelligence officer John Kiriakou explains why there isn’t much light left to shed on the presidential assassination – but we should expect intriguing detail about the ‘second gunman’ theory in the killing of his brother, Robert

Joe Sommerlad18 March 2025 10:20

Speaking at the Kennedy Center yesterday, the D.C. liberal arts institution he has taken over with the intention of “MAGA-fying”, Trump pledged to release 80,000 pages of unredacted files related to the assassination of John F Kennedy, the man the venue was named to honor.

“You’ve got a lot of reading, the president said.

“I don’t believe we are going to redact anything… It’s many pages, approximately 80,000 pages. It’s a lot of stuff– and you’ll make your own determination.”

Donald Trump reveals release date of classified JFK assassination files

Donald Trump has revealed 80,000 pages of classified documents relating to the assassination of JFK will be released tomorrow (18 March). “We are tomorrow announcing and giving all of the Kennedy files,” the president told press during a tour of the Kennedy Center in Washington. “You’ve got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we are are going to redact anything … it’s many pages, approximately 80,000 pages. “It’s a lot of stuff – and you’ll make your own determination.” Trump ordered the declassification of the assassination files, along with top secret documents on the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and RFK, in an executive order signed in January.

Joe Sommerlad18 March 2025 10:00

The commander-in-chief has announced that he is revoking the Secret Service protection afforded to Joe Biden’s children Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden, saying as much on Truth Social last night.

Also on his social media platform, Trump followed up on his campaign promise to back “beautiful, clean coal” – the environment be damned – launched an extraordinary attack on The Atlantic magazine in the course of which he claimed to have won the presidency three times (Narrator: “He didn’t”) and hailed April 2, when his reciprocal tariffs policy comes into effect, as “Liberation Day”.

Here’s more on Trump’s latest move against the Bidens

Joe Sommerlad18 March 2025 09:40

Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has asked a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to replace District Court Judge James Boasberg for allegedly engaging in an “inappropriate exercise of jurisdiction” as he oversees a case challenging the administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

Judge Boasberg attempted to block Trump’s deportation flights carrying hundreds of people linked to the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador over the weekend, disputing the invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act 1798 and ordering planes already in the air to turn around.

On Monday, he demanded answers as to why that was not done as Trump allies including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and advisers Alina Habba and Stephen Miller flooded the airwaves to rebuke the judge for overstepping his authority in challenging an executive order from the president.

Alex Woodward and Josh Marcus have the latest.

Joe Sommerlad18 March 2025 09:20

Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 08:50

Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 08:20

Donald Trump’s first eight weeks back in the White House have been a whirlwind but the president has still found time for one of his passions: interior decoration.

Not content with firing out executive orders, raising and lowering tariffs and unnerving the stock markets and America’s allies alike, the president has been busy redesigning the Oval Office, ensuring its furnishings, fixtures and ornaments are more in keeping with his personal taste.

And for Trump, that means gold. And plenty of it.

Joe Sommerlad has the story.

Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 07:50

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.

Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 07:20

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.

Oliver O’Connell18 March 2025 06:20