Pentagon reportedly planning to cut workforce by at least 50,000 – US politics live

Cuts are expected to come from hire freezes, dismissing some probationary workers and by people taking up an offer to resign

About 2,200 files consisting of over 63,000 pages concerning the assassination of president John F Kennedy have been posted on the website of the US National Archives and Records administration. The Trump administration claims they were previously classified.

Associated Press reports that the National Archives say the vast majority of its collection of over six million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts related to the assassination have already been released.