The FBI on Tuesday said it discovered 2,400 new records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order last month to release thousands of files. The FBI said it’s working to transfer the records to the National Archives and Records Administration to be included in the declassification process. The federal government in the early 1990s mandated that all documents related to the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination be housed in a single collection at the National Archives. And while the vast majority of the collection — over 5 million records — has been made public, researchers estimate that 3,000 files haven’t been released, either in whole or in part.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was thrown a lifeline when the Trump administration moved to drop federal corruption charges against the embattled leader of America’s largest city. It marked an extraordinary deviation from longstanding norms of federal prosecutions, but, in many ways, was entirely expected, given the months of political intrigue involving closed-door talks and public overtures between the Democratic mayor and Republican president. Here’s what you need to know: Did the mayor just reach a plea deal or get a pardon? Neither. The Justice Department on Monday simply ordered prosecutors to drop the charges before the case even goes to trial, which had been set for April. In a two-page memo, acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, second in command at the U.S.

President Donald Trump made a rare appearance with Elon Musk, his most powerful adviser, in the Oval Office on Tuesday before signing an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce. The Associated Press reviewed a White House fact sheet on the order, which is intended to advance Musk’s work slashing spending with his Department of Government Efficiency. Musk said there are some good people in the federal bureaucracy but they need to be accountable and called it an “unelected” fourth branch. “The people voted for major government reform and that’s what the people are going to get,” he said.

A new report confirms suspicions that the Chinese balloon, which created widespread concern when it passed over the United States two years ago, was designed to spy on Americans—using technology sourced from the US.
The 200-foot balloon was equipped with a satellite communications module, sensors, and various technologies from at least five US-based companies, as revealed by two individuals with direct access to a classified US military report, who spoke to Newsweek.
The balloon, which journeyed from Alaska over Canada and into the US Midwest before being downed off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023, was capable of gathering in-depth data on unsuspecting Americans, according to these sources, who referred to findings from the debris of the downed balloon.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed a $97.4 billion takeover bid led by rival Elon Musk, but the unsolicited offer could complicate Altman’s push to transform the maker of ChatGPT into a for-profit company. “We are not for sale,” Altman said Tuesday at an artificial intelligence summit in Paris. Musk’s bid, announced Monday, is the latest in a bitter years-long battle with Altman over control of the AI startup they both helped found a decade ago as a nonprofit and is now a leading force in the global boom surrounding generative AI technology. “OpenAI has a mission,” Altman told France’s AI minister in an on-stage discussion Tuesday mobbed by tech industry workers and investors. “We are an unusual organization and we have this mission of making AGI benefit all humanity.

With nearly all seats booked, Akiva’s concert this Sunday in Boca Raton, Florida, is nearing capacity as the Israeli singer-songwriter’s performance in Englewood, New Jersey, on Monday has officially sold out.  With a reputation for music that stirs heartstrings and ignites joy, Akiva topped Israeli charts with his hit single, Al Taazvi Yadayim—and ensuing albums have kept him there.  His electrifying songs blend Middle Eastern and Western styles and fuse religious themes with everyday emotions. And with a fresh, authentic style, Akiva has gained a large and growing fanbase among Jews of all backgrounds worldwide. He’s sold out concerts in Miami, Orlando, and Los Angeles.

A top Democratic senator has asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate after he says he received information that President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, had been “personally directing the ongoing purge” of agents at the bureau. The letter Tuesday from Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, asserts that Patel may have misled the panel at his confirmation hearing last month when he said in response to a question that he was not aware of any plans inside the FBI to punish or fire any agents.