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Vladimir Putin agrees to partial ceasefire in Ukraine during call with Trump

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to halt attacks on Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure in a partial ceasefire following a call with President Trump on Tuesday.

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  • Trump and his national security team have been pushing for a ceasefire that includes a 30-day pause in all hostilities, prisoner exchanges, and the return of kidnapped Ukrainian children. While Ukraine agreed to the proposal last week, Russia has so far declined.

  • Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino indicated the call between Trump and Putin began at 10 a.m. ET and was “going well.” The conversation continued for over an hour, with updates suggesting the two leaders engaged in substantive discussions on the terms of a potential peace framework.

  • According to the White House readout, both leaders agreed that a ceasefire related to energy and infrastructure would serve as the initial step toward broader peace talks. The negotiations on additional aspects will commence in the Middle East.

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President Trump has prioritized direct diplomacy in resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with White House officials emphasizing that his approach aims to first “stop the killing” before progressing to a long-term settlement. According to the White House statement, Trump and Putin agreed to a partial ceasefire, with Russia halting attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid and infrastructure while discussions continue on achieving a complete cessation of hostilities.

“The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated. She added that these negotiations “will begin immediately in the Middle East.”

Putin, however, remained noncommittal on a broader truce. The Russian leader had been presented with the full ceasefire framework last Friday when Special Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Moscow to discuss the deal already signed by Ukraine. Yet, rather than agreeing to the terms, Putin insisted on direct talks with Trump.

Despite Russia’s rejection of a broader ceasefire, the agreement to stop targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure marks a significant step in ongoing negotiations. Trump’s team remains focused on securing additional commitments, with White House officials making clear that talks on securing a permanent peace remain high on the agenda.

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Trump admin releases long awaited files on JFK, RFK, MLK assassinations

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By Stephen Kokx

The Trump administration released more than 80,000 documents today about the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. The move is a result of an executive order Trump signed after being sworn in.

The Trump administration has released what it is calling “all of the files” the government has in its possession related to the assassination of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. 

The documents were made available on Tuesday through the National Archives. “In accordance with President Donald Trump’s directive of March 17, 2025, all records previously withheld for classification that are part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection are released,” it was announced.

 

Trump had announced Monday while at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., that the files would be released the following day.  

“I am a man of my word,” he said, referring to his campaign promise to provide transparency on the matter.

Trump was at the center overseeing a board meeting. He has overhauled the organization during his first few weeks as president so it will host patriotic and pro-Christian events. 

More than 80,000 documents were released. The move is a result of an executive order Trump signed just days after being sworn in on January 20. The order directed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to prepare a plan for the files’ release. 

GOP Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida announced in March the launch of a website that contains the new files. Click here to access it. Luna was tapped by the Trump administration to act as the head of a “task force” to oversee their rollout. She previously stated she believes there were “two shooters” of President Kennedy. 

Polls show most Americans do not believe the Warren Commission’s claim that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Alternative theories that have gained traction are that multiple shooters were strategically placed on top of several buildings in Dealey Plaza and that one on the “grassy knoll” in front of Kennedy to his right fired at him too.

The files released today also contain information about the 1968 assassination of Kennedy’s brother Robert Fr. Kennedy and activist Martin Luther King Jr.  

Tucker Carlson discussed the files with former CNN host Chris Cuomo earlier this month. 

“There’s clearly information in those files that are going to make the CIA look bad,” Cuomo argued. 

“Just the CIA?” Carlson cryptically shot back, insinuating other entities may also be implicated. 

In a podcast released in January, Carlson and ex-Washington Post reporter Jeffrey Morley noted that Trump’s former CIA chief Mike Pompeo, an outspoken Zionist, urged him to squash the release of the files in 2017. Congress had voted in 1992 to have the files made public in 2017. 

At the end of their conversion, Carlson and Morley discussed the lesser-known fact that Kennedy was adamant about having inspections of Israel’s Dimona nuclear power plant. They also recalled how Kennedy was seeking to have the American Zionist Council (later the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) register as a foreign entity. 

Whether the files reveal a connection to the Israeli government will be more readily known once their contents are more thoroughly investigated. 

Morley has taken to social media in recent weeks to explain how people can search the archived files related to Kennedy’s assassination. He has recommended they use the JFK Database Explorer here. 

Morley explains out on his Substack page that the National Archives has more than 3,800 records related to JFK on hand and that the FBI recently sent 2,400 additional files to the Archives for future release. He also notes that there are more than 319,000 documents comprising an estimated three million pages of material at the Archives II facility in College Park, Maryland. 

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Biden Admin ‘Intentionally Buried’ Inconvenient Study To Justify Major Energy Crackdown, Sources Say

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Nick Pope

The Biden administration deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, according to four Department of Energy (DOE) sources.

Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and former President Joe Biden announced the LNG freeze in January 2024, stating that it would remain in place until the DOE could conduct a fresh study of the climate and economic impacts of LNG export growth. The Biden DOE finalized a draft of the study in 2023 and subsequently buried it because the initial version’s findings would have contradicted the administration’s rationale for the LNG freeze, according to four sources inside the Trump DOE granted anonymity by the Daily Caller News Foundation to freely discuss a sensitive matter.

“The Energy Department has learned that former Secretary Granholm and the Biden White House intentionally buried a lot of data and released a skewed study to discredit the benefits of American LNG,” one DOE source told the DCNF. “They were prioritizing their own political ambitions over the interests of the American people, and the administration intentionally deceived the American public to advance an agenda that harmed American energy security, the environment and American lives.”

 

The Biden DOE had essentially completed the final draft version of the LNG impacts study by the end of September 2023, and that version was ready to be presented to top Biden officials shortly thereafter, Trump DOE sources told the DCNF. That particular iteration of the study, DOE sources told the DCNF, found that increasing U.S. LNG exports would actually bring about a reduction in global emissions relative to other scenarios.

That particular finding is at odds with Granholm’s analysis of the final version of the study released to the public in December 2024, in which she argued that any increase in LNG exports will result in higher global greenhouse gas emissions.

At the end of September 2023, a Biden administration official left a comment on the final draft version that instructed others to halt work on it until further notice, despite other language in the document stating that the final version was to be published sometime around the end of September 2023, Trump DOE sources told the DCNF. That version of the study was never released publicly, and the Biden DOE considered it to be a “working document” given that the agency subsequently categorized it as part of an internal deliberative process, according to DOE sources.

Additionally, the Biden DOE appears to have deleted numerous pages that appeared in the September 2023 draft version from what became the final version of the report released to the public at the end of 2024, the Trump DOE sources told the DCNF.

While the September 2023 and December 2024 versions of the paper bear the same name, the final version released to the public did not include a specific type of analysis of LNG exports known as the consideration of market effects, Trump DOE sources told the DCNF. That particular analysis — included in the buried September 2023 version of the study, but not the final product — found that U.S. LNG exports would bring down global emissions by displacing more polluting sources of energy abroad, and its absence from the December 2024 version allowed the Biden DOE to skew the final report’s findings against increasing LNG exports.

 

The evidence showing that the Biden administration buried the initial, politically inconvenient version of the study and misled the American public in the process will soon be transmitted to Congress and to the public, DOE sources told the DCNF.

Granholm and Biden each made statements after the pause was announced implying that the administration was freezing LNG export approvals to pursue answers that Trump DOE sources say had already been found, and that Biden officials chose to ignore. Specifically, both Biden and Granholm suggested that increased LNG exports would be a net negative for the global climate, with Granholm definitively saying as much after the final study was released to the public in December 2024.

“During this period, we will take a hard look at the impacts of LNG exports on energy costs, America’s energy security, and our environment. This pause on new LNG approvals sees the climate crisis for what it is: the existential threat of our time,” Biden said in a statement the day the pause was announced. “While MAGA Republicans willfully deny the urgency of the climate crisis, condemning the American people to a dangerous future, my Administration will not be complacent. We will not cede to special interests.”

Notably, House Speaker Mike Johnson recalled to The Free Press in January 2025 that Biden “genuinely didn’t know what he had signed” when he asked the president about the decision to freeze LNG approvals in January 2024, with the Republican adding that he left that meeting with the impression that Biden was not actually running the country in practice.

The DOE stated that it would “initiate” a review to determine whether increasing LNG exports is in the public interest in its statement on Jan. 26, 2024, the day the pause was announced.

Granholm claimed that the final version of the study released to the public in December 2024 demonstrates that “in every scenario, increases in LNG exports would lead to increases in global net emissions,” and that “a business-as-usual approach is neither sustainable nor advisable.” When the pause was first announced in January 2024, Granholm said in a statement that the review “will ensure that DOE remains a responsible actor using the most up-to-date economic and environmental analyses.”

“At the time Granholm said that, they were literally hiding from the public the most up-to-date economic and environmental analyses available because it contradicted the very ban that they were trying to institute. They knew the facts well before they created a report that cherry picked the data,” a Trump DOE source told the DCNF. “When you look at what they hid and what they were saying at the same time, it becomes very clear that they weren’t interested in following the science to make decisions in the best interest of the American people. They were interested in making decisions that benefited them politically, and manipulating the science by whatever means necessary.”
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