The Latest Breaking News from the National Archives

Scholars and historians are likely to spend months sifting through records for answers about US president’s killing.

Unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released

A search carried out in January this year following Trump’s executive order unearthed new records relating to Kennedy’s assassination

The FBI says it's discovered 2,400 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to release thousands of classified files

In August 1990, two hikers sent photos of a strange diamond-shaped aircraft to the press – but the story never appeared. Was it a prank, a hoax, an optical illusion or something else entirely?

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday declassifying files on the 1960s assassinations of president John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. "A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades," Trump told reporters as…

A deeply mistaken decision on the way out of office.

Concerns arise over handling classified documents during President Biden's transition process, emphasizing national security.

From a major UK film star to the Queen’s senior courtier – declassifed documents tell a new story about British spies