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7 lawmakers tapped for panel probing JFK assassination, Epstein, UFOs

Seven House Republicans have been named to a new task force dedicated to weighing the declassification of some of the U.S.’ most infamous “secrets.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., as expected, will lead the explosive panel – formally known as the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets. It will operate under the House Oversight Committee and its chairman, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.

The list, though short, signals House GOP leaders are letting the conference’s conservative wing take the wheel on this investigation.

In addition to Luna, the task force will also include members of the often rebellious House Freedom Caucus such as Reps. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Eli Crane, R-Ariz., and Eric Burlison, R-Mo.

FBI UNCOVERS THOUSANDS OF UNDISCLOSED RECORDS CONNECTED TO JFK’S ASSASSINATION

Seven House Republicans have been named to a task force on “federal secrets.” (Fox News Digital/Getty/AP)

Also on the panel is Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who has made headlines on several culture war issues over the last year.

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., who frequently collaborates with Luna on issues relating to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) in Congress, is on the panel as well, as is first-term Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas.

“Bad day to be a classified government secret,” Mace wrote on X.

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Rep. Nancy Mace is part of the new federal secrets task force. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Congressional Integrity Project)

Burlison wrote on the site, “A Government cloaked in secrecy has been a tool for control.”

Luna pledged to seek “truth and transparency” in a written statement announcing the task force last week.

She pledged to “give Americans the answers they deserve” on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jeffrey Epstein’s client list, COVID-19, UAPs, and the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Luna said when announcing the list of members, “We have assembled a team of dedicated leaders who have consistently fought for transparency and full disclosure.”

The task force will answer to House Oversight and Accountability committee Chairman James Comer. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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“Our mission is simple: to ensure these documents are released swiftly and in their entirety, giving the American people the truth they deserve,” Luna said.

Comer said of the list, “Ensuring government transparency for the American people is a core mission of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.”

“The Republicans on Rep. Luna’s task force are steadfast champions of transparency, and I am confident they will vigorously pursue and deliver the truth on critical issues,” Comer said.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.

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February 18, 2025
‘Truly providential’: Trump made promise to Marc Fogel’s mother moments before Butler assassination attempt

President Donald Trump met with Marc Fogel’s mother on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania, and vowed to bring her son home if elected, just before an assassination attempt nearly took his life.

Rep. Mark Kelly, R-Pa., was there for the meeting between Trump and Malphine Fogel before the president took the stage.

“The president survived the assassination attempt on July 13 in Butler, and he fulfilled his commitment to Mrs. Fogel that he would get her son home,” Kelly told Fox News Digital. “It is an incredible, providential story.”

MOTHER OF FREED AMERICAN HOSTAGE MARC FOGEL THANKS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: ‘HE KEPT HIS PROMISE’

President Donald Trump met with Marc Fogel’s mother on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, and vowed to bring her son home if elected, just before an assassin tried to take his life. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press)

During the rally, after his meeting with Fogel’s mother, Trump was showing off a chart highlighting how illegal immigration skyrocketed under the Biden-Harris administration. As he turned toward the chart, he was hit by a bullet that pierced the upper part of his right ear by the now-deceased would-be-assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks. Trump credits the chart for saving his life.

Kelly likened the situation to the classic movie “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

“The theme of the movie was that George Bailey was very frustrated, but he was given a glimpse of life and what would have happened if he hadn’t been there – if he hadn’t been born,” Kelly recalled. “And if I go back to July 13, this is all providential.”

President Donald Trump welcomes Marc Fogel back to the United States on Feb. 11, 2025, after Fogel was released from Russian custody. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“Mrs. Fogel has a chance to talk to the president, and she talks about what is happening to Marc. The president vows to get him home,” Kelly continued. “It is a take-off of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and the opportunity, or the dilemma, that if you were never born, what would the consequences have been?”

“If President Trump did not survive the assassination attempt on July 13, Marc Fogel wouldn’t be home today,” Kelly said.

Fogel, an American teacher from Western Pennsylvania, returned to the United States late Tuesday, after Trump secured his release. Fogel was arrested in 2021 at an airport in Russia for possession of medical marijuana and was sentenced to 14 years in a Russian prison.

AMERICAN MARC FOGEL RELEASED FROM RUSSIAN CUSTODY

Kelly told Fox News Digital that “it is all about faith.”

Marc Fogel, 63 years old, taught at AAS Moscow, formerly known as the Anglo-American School of Moscow. (Ellen Keelan and Lisa Hyland)

“Having been there and witnessed it, I think to myself, ‘Oh my goodness, that tiny fraction of an inch, or whatever it was, is the difference between Marc Fogel being home and Marc Fogel not being home,’” he said. “Between making a promise to his mother and being able to keep it, as opposed to making a promise and never getting a chance to fulfill it.”

Malphine Fogel recalled the Butler meeting with Trump on Fox News Channel’s “America Newsroom.”

“I met with President Trump, and he was just as cordial as he could be,” she said. “He told me three different times, ‘If I get in,’ he said, ‘I’ll get him out’ and I really think he’s been instrumental.”

Malphine Fogel told Fox News that “it was a total surprise” when she heard from her son from the Moscow airport.

“So, that meant that (they) had taken him out of the prison to Moscow…. The last week or so, for some crazy reason, I had a better feeling about things, but I hadn’t heard from him in a week, so I thought that was odd and when he called… it was just a total shock,” she said.

Meanwhile, Kelly told Fox News Digital, “There is a certain time in people’s lives where you realize you don’t have forever, you have right now, and you need to get it done.”

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“Politically, there is no one on either side of the aisle that could look at what happened with Marc Fogel and not somehow say, this is truly providential – this is not a political move,” Kelly said. “This doesn’t do anything for the president. He’s already elected. He did this to keep a promise to a mother in her mid 90s – the only thing she wanted to see before she died was her son one more time.”

Kelly added: “This is a promise made. Promise kept. It is truly providential. It is. It is a wonderful life.”

Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.

February 13, 2025
Anna Paulina Luna to lead task force on declassification of JFK assassination records, Epstein client list

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EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., will lead a new task force focused on the declassification of federal secrets — including records related to the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy Jr., Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, and other documents in the public interest, Fox News Digital has learned.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., appointed Luna to chair the task force, titled the “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., will lead a new task force focused on the declassification of federal secrets. (Getty Images)

FBI UNCOVERS THOUSANDS OF UNDISCLOSED RECORDS CONNECTED TO JFK’S ASSASSINATION

Luna is expected to focus on examining the declassification of materials in the public interest — including the client list of Jeffrey Epstein, files relating to Sept. 11, 2001, COVID-19 origins, UFOs and more.

Fox News Digital has learned that Comer and Luna are sending letters to necessary agencies to kick off the declassification investigations.

President Donald Trump, left, signed an executive order Feb. 6 aimed at declassifying government documents on the assassinations of President John F. K Kennedy Jr., right, his brother and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. (The Associated Press)

Sources told Fox News Digital that Comer and Luna sent letters to the State Department, Department of Energy and the CIA for documents relating to the origins of COVID-19; the National Security Agency and CIA for records relating to JFK, MLK Jr., and RFK assassinations; the Department of Defense and the CIA for 9/11 files; and to the Justice Department for documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump on Feb. 6 signed an order to declassify files related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. (Getty Images)

The creation of the task force comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the director of National Intelligence and other appropriate officials to present a plan for the full and complete release of all JFK assassination records within 15 days.

He also ordered that officials immediately review the records relating to RFK and MLK Jr.’s assassinations and present a plan for their full and complete release within 45 days.

TRUMP SIGNS ORDER TO DECLASSIFY FILES ON JFK, RFK AND MLK ASSASSINATIONS

“For too long, the federal government has kept information of public interest classified and the American people are demanding greater transparency. This secrecy has sowed distrust in our institutions,” Comer told Fox News Digital, noting that the task force will “build on the Trump Administration’s efforts to declassify records of national importance and ensure Americans get the answers they deserve.”

“Representative Luna is committed to shining a light on the truth and ending the era of secrecy,” Comer said. “It’s time to let the sunlight in and finally provide answers the American public has long demanded.”

The task force will also investigate “UAPs/USOs, the Epstein client list, COVID-19 origins, and the 9/11 files.” Here, security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)

Luna told Fox News Digital that the federal government “has been hiding information from Americans for decades.”

“We have spent years seeking information on the assassinations of President Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, Reverend King, and other government secrets without success,” Luna told Fox News Digital. “It is time to give Americans the answers they deserve, which is why I am honored to lead this bipartisan task force that seeks truth and transparency.”

Luna told Fox News Digital that the task force will also investigate “UAPs/USOs, the Epstein client list, COVID-19 origins, and the 9/11 files.”

A UFO is seen in the sky. (Courtesy of Netflix)

“We will work alongside President Trump and his cabinet members to deliver truth to the American people,” she said. “From this moment forward, we will restore trust through transparency.”

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Sources said Luna’s task force is authorized for six months.

Fox News Digital is told that members of the task force will be announced in the coming weeks.

February 11, 2025
FBI uncovers thousands of undisclosed records connected to JFK’s assassination

The FBI has uncovered thousands of records connected to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order to release the files.

Axios first reported that the FBI released 2,400 records tied to the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy, which were not provided to the board that reviewed and disclosed the files.

DEADLINE LOOMS FOR RELEASE OF JFK ASSASSINATION FILES

Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at declassifying government documents on the assassinations of President JFK, his brother and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. (Associated Press)

When the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) submitted its plan to release the JFK files, it reportedly disclosed the existence of the records.

Fox News has confirmed with a person familiar with the records that the files were uncovered during the review.

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The FBI did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment on the matter.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.

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February 10, 2025
Deadline looms for release of JFK assassination files

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the attorney general are expected to release their proposed plan for the declassification of the JFK files on Friday.

Both offices, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and the Counsel to the President, have until the end of the day Friday to release their proposed plan.

Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.

THE JFK FILES: HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENED SINCE THEIR ORIGINAL PLANNED RELEASE

“Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office.

Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. (Associated Press)

The executive order came after Trump had previously promised on the campaign trail to declassify the documents upon entering his second term, saying at the time, “When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the truth.”

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Trump had initially promised to release the last batch of documents during his first term, but such efforts ultimately dissipated. Trump then blocked the release of hundreds of records on the assassination following several CIA and FBI appeals.

Bondi has yet to formally address Trump’s order to declassify the JFK assassination files and her approach to the task. (Getty Images / Fox News Digital)

“I have no choice,” Trump said in a memo, where he cited “potentially irreversible harm” to national security if he allowed the records to be released. Trump said at the time the potential harm to U.S. national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs is “of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure.”

TRUMP SIGNS ORDER TO DECLASSIFY FILES ON JFK, RFK AND MLK ASSASSINATIONS

Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was sworn in on Wednesday, is in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the day to survey Super Bowl LIX security. Bondi’s first full day on the job is part of an effort to highlight the administration’s broader commitment to crack down on violent crime and acts of terrorism.

Bondi has yet to formally address Trump’s order to declassify the JFK assassination files and her approach to the task.

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to head DNI, successfully advanced out of the Intel Committee this week, with all Republican members voting in her favor. (AP)

Fox News Digital learned shortly after she was sworn in that the new AG would be issuing several major directives on her first day, including orders to combat the weaponization of the legal system and making prosecutors seek the death penalty when appropriate.

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for DNI, successfully advanced out of the Intel Committee this week, with all Republican members voting in her favor.

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Gabbard has faced questions during her confirmation process regarding her past meeting with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, her previous FISA Section 702 stance and her past support for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Fox News’ David Spunt, Breanne Deppisch, Julia Johnson and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Haley Chi-Sing is a Writer for Fox News Digital. You can reach her at @haleychising on X.

February 7, 2025
If Iran attempts assassination, ‘they get obliterated’: President Trump

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday if Iran carries out his assassination, advisers will ensure that country is “obliterated.”

While signing an executive order imposing maximum pressure on Tehran, the president said he left instructions if something were to happen to him.

“That would be a terrible thing for them to do,” Trump said. “If they did that, they would be obliterated. That would be the end. … There won’t be anything left.”

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

IRAN ‘TERRIFIED’ OF TRUMP PRESIDENCY AS IRANIAN CURRENCY FALLS TO AN ALL-TIME LOW

The president said former President Joe Biden “should have said that,” but did not, due to a “lack of intelligence.”

The Justice Department confirmed in November it thwarted an Iranian plot to kill Trump in the weeks leading up to the presidential election.

A criminal complaint filed in September noted an official in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps asked Farhad Shakeri, 51, of Iran, to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating” Trump.

Shakeri immigrated to the United States as a child and was deported about 17 years ago after serving 14 years in prison for a robbery conviction, according to the DOJ.

INTELLIGENCE REPORT SAYS IRAN WILL KEEP TRYING TO KILL TRUMP REGARDLESS OF ELECTION OUTCOME

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

He was allegedly tasked on Oct. 7, 2024 with providing a plan to kill Trump, according to authorities.

Shakeri has not yet been apprehended and is believed to be living in Iran, according to the DOJ.

“I’m signing this, and it’s a very powerful document, but hopefully we’re not going to have to use it,” Trump said on Tuesday.

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Fox News Digital’s Greg Norman contributed to this story.

Alexandra Koch is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Prior to joining Fox News, Alexandra covered breaking news, crime, religion, and the military in the southeast.

February 4, 2025
Martyrs’ Day 2025 Date in India: Know Significance of Shaheed Diwas That Marks the Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948

Martyrs’ Day in India, also known as Shaheed Diwas, is observed on January 30 every year to mark the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948 by Nathuram Godse. This is also the day to pay homage to the brave souls who sacrificed their lives for the freedom and welfare of the nation. Martyrs’ Day serves as an opportunity to remember Gandhi’s contributions to India’s freedom struggle and to reflect on his principles of non-violence and truth. Martyrs’ Day 2025 Quotes and Shaheed Diwas HD Images To Honour Father of the Nation on His Punyatithi.

On Martyrs’ Day, top dignitaries of the country including the President, the Vice President, the Prime Minister, the Defence Minister, the Chief of Defence Staff and the three Service Chiefs gather at Raj Ghat memorial and lay wreaths. Apart from January 30, March 23 is another significant Martyrs’ Day, marking the execution of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev in 1931. In this article, let’s know more about Martyrs’ Day in India 2025 date and the significance of the annual event. February 2025 Holidays and Festivals Calendar: Get Full List of Major Events in the Second Month of the Year.

Martyrs’ Day 2025 Date in India

Martyrs’ Day 2025 in India is observed on Thursday, January 30.

Martyrs’ Day Significance

Martyrs’ Day in India serves as an opportunity to reflect on the courage and selflessness of those who gave their lives for the country’s freedom and integrity. By revisiting the stories of bravery, resilience, and sacrifice, Martyrs’ Day encourages individuals to uphold the principles of justice, equality, and peace.

On this day, various events are organised across India to honour the martyrs and educate the youth about their role in the nation’s freedom struggle. Schools, colleges, and other organisations host events like discussions, speeches, and programs to inspire kids and educate them about the bravery of our soldiers.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Jan 29, 2025 05:49 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).

January 29, 2025