Is today a holiday?: What to know about MLK Day and Inauguration Day Monday brings both the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the quadrennial Inauguration Day. So is today a holiday? The answer is yes, because of the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ... 01/20/2025 - 2:39 am | View Link
When did MLK Day become a federal holiday? What to know about the national day of service Texas officially recognized MLK Day in 1991. Today, it remains the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service. 01/19/2025 - 10:03 pm | View Link
It took more than a dream to establish Martin Luther King Jr. holiday In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it. 01/19/2025 - 9:18 pm | View Link
Why a National Holiday Was the One of the Worst Things to Happen to MLK, Jr. Go to a MLK celebration these days and you will hear Black politicians using this holiday as a platform to run for Office. Most white pastors use the day as a time to get in a pulpit and talk to their ... 01/19/2025 - 5:59 pm | View Link
What is MLK Day? What to know about the federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will once again be celebrated and honored Monday in events around the nation. 01/19/2025 - 7:01 am | View Link
As President Donald Trump triumphantly returned to the White House thanks in part to a tsunami of campaign cash from oligarchs and corporate interests, democracy defenders on Tuesday marked the 15th anniversary of the U. S. Supreme Court ruling that unleashed such spending by urging action to overturn the decision.
In a nation where corporations and moneyed interests already wielded disproportionate power and influence over elections, Citizens United v.
President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 in Washington D. C. brought the world’s wealthiest people together to celebrate his return to the presidency, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, who have a combined net worth of nearly $900 billion, according to Forbes.
As Trump was inaugurated, longtime Trump supporter Harold Hamm—known for fracking and considered “America’s richest oil man” with over $18.5 billion in wealth running Continental Resources— hosted an exclusive inauguration watch party.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a $500 billion joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank, MGX and Oracle to build new datacenters to power the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) – in an early signal that his Administration would embrace the technology.
The plans, which predate the Trump Administration and involve no U.
Danielle Hegseth, Pete Hegseth's sister-in-law, sent an affidavit that at least 15 Senators reviewed, detailing more instances of his alcohol "problems" and physical abuse to his second wife, Samantha.
NBC News reports:
in law submitted the affidavit in response to a Jan. 18 letter from Sen. Jack Reed, D-R. I., seeking “a statement attesting to your personal knowledge about Mr.
One of the most prominent Trump-supporting groups, the police union, has now blasted Donald Trump for issuing this blanket pardon of 1500 people convicted of the seditious attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The largest police union in the US, which endorsed Donald Trump during his campaign, said Trump’s decision to pardon more than 1,500 people convicted over the January 6 insurrection “sends a dangerous message”, in a statement on Tuesday.
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which endorsed Trump in September 2024, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) warned that the blanket clemency offered to rioters – including those convicted of violent offenses, and several leaders of the attack on the Capitol – threatened Americans’ safety.
“The IACP and FOP are deeply discouraged by the recent pardons and commutations granted by both the Biden and Trump administrations to individuals convicted of killing or assaulting law enforcement officers.
Nobody expected anything special when the squadron of Navy F/A-18 fighter jets headed out for routine aerial maneuvers off of the coast of Virginia Beach one day in 2013. The F/A-18s, a Naval workhorse, owned the local air space that day—but only until they didn’t.
All at once, the jets’ radar picked up a cluster of half a dozen objects flying along with them, moving erratically—and entirely acrobatically.