On Thursday, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King III was sitting at home in Atlanta with his siblings, watching the news, when a news bulletin flashed across their TV screen: Their father, Martin Luther King, Jr., had just been assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. It was this memory King shared as he...
Former Trump attorney John Eastman downplayed a California judge calling for his disbarment last week, arguing that he’s still likely to succeed on appeal and revealing that he has been subpoenaed in a separate suit related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The judge recommended that Eastman, who was at the center of efforts...
A group of House Democrats is calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to include humanitarian assistance in a foreign aid package that is expected to address funding for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo Pacific. In a letter to Johnson sent Tuesday and obtained by The Hill, the Democrats ask Johnson to include $9.16 billion in...
President Biden on Thursday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toward a cease-fire deal that would release the remaining hostages in Gaza while suggesting that U.S. policy on the war will depend on Israel’s ability to better protect civilians and humanitarian workers after a deadly attack that killed a contingent of international aid workers this...
A federal judge in Philadelphia rejected a nonprofit’s attempt to open a safe drug-injection site in the city. Safehouse, the organization that seeks to provide overdose prevention services, said the threat of prosecution by the Department of Justice over potentially violating drug laws is hindering its religious rights as a group. The organization said its...
When the federal government locks migrants up, it’s responsible for them — whether or not they’ve been formally processed, a federal judge found on Wednesday. As migrant crossings over the border between Mexico and Southern California have overwhelmed local detention facilities, thousands of people have been left to camp in the desert, often for days....
A planned Maryland Democratic Senate debate between Rep. David Trone, D-Md., and Angela Alsobrooks was cancelled this week after Trone reportedly "refused to commit."
Sir Maejor Page, an activist who calls himself the 'world's sexiest albino,' is on trial for allegedly conning donations from people through a Black Lives Matter-styled group.