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RNS: Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition
The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
The release involves more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.
King’s family, including his two living children, Martin III and Bernice, were given advance notice of the release and had their own teams reviewing the records ahead of the public disclosure.
In a lengthy statement released Monday, the two living King children called their father’s case a “captivating public curiosity for decades.” But the pair emphasized the personal nature of the matter and urged that “these files must be viewed within their full historical context.”
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NY Times: Trump Administration Releases Documents on Martin Luther King Jr.
The release is in keeping with an executive order by President Trump in making public the files, despite the opposition of Dr. King’s family.
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It is not clear if the digitized files contain unflattering details about Dr. King’s personal life. Still, the release comes as Mr. Trump and his staff have sought to divert attention from the backlash on the right after his administration reversed course and did not release more files from the investigation into the death of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The King family has expressed concerns that releasing the records into Dr. King would focus attention on his well-documented sexual indiscretions. They also raised worries about whether doing so would feed a revisionist — negative — view of a man who has come to embody the fight against systemic racism and the call for a robust federal defense of minority groups that Mr. Trump has largely moved to reverse since taking office.
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Wired: EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office
As the EPA moves to shut down the Office of Research and Development, leadership is unable to answer questions as basic as when it will close and how many will lose their jobs.
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NY Times: Judge Sentences Ex-Officer in Breonna Taylor Raid to Nearly 3 Years in Prison
The sentence was a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration, which had requested he serve only one day behind bars.
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Closer to the Edge: Broward: death is just a delayed appointment
Marie Ange Blaise died waiting for help in a country that calls itself civilized. She didn’t die in the shadows, either—she died with her name on a clipboard, her body logged into a system that forgot her before she stopped breathing. Broward Transitional Center is a bureaucratic slaughterhouse where medical care is a coin toss and the coin is always rigged.
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Register: The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai’i
The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions
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Anchorage Daily News: Murkowski feels ‘cheated’ by Trump administration actions against wind and solar projects
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Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off
Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff
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NY Times: Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent
The signatories of the “Voyager Declaration” warned the space agency’s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts that would halt many science missions.
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404 Media: Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission
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Hill: Trump’s vein diagnosis gives rare glimpse into health issues
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AXIOS: Trump’s forever grudge
NBC: Trump’s intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election
Five years ago, Marco Rubio said there was “irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.” Now, Tulsi Gabbard says that claim is “treasonous” and should be criminally investigated.
CNN: Gabbard’s Russian interference claims directly contradict what other Trump officials have said
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AP: Speaker Johnson refuses to allow Epstein vote as House set to recess early
TNR: So, Where Is the “Bawdy” Trump-Epstein Letter, Anyway?
There is a missing piece at the center of the president’s legal claims against The Wall Street Journal—and sooner or later, someone may have to produce it.
TNR: DOJ Tries to Put Out Epstein Fire With Promise on Ghislaine Maxwell
TNR: Trump Flips Out at Republican Lawmaker Exposing the Party on Epstein
“Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers? Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims?”
Reuters: Trump’s Wall Street Journal suit over Epstein story faces timing hurdle
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NOTUS: The ‘Gulf of America’ gag order
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