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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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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., before giving his “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
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A Timeline of the Etan Patz Case

It has been 46 years since 6-year-old Etan Patz disappeared in SoHo. After a lawsuit and two criminal trials, questions remain about how he died.

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Julie Patz, mother of Etan Patz, spoke on NBC-TV’s “Today” show in 1981.
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Texas Republicans Look to Jam Democrats With Vote on Redistricting

By taking up new congressional maps pushed by President Trump first, Republicans hope to discourage Democrats from walking out of a special session before they vote on flood relief.

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Members of the House stood for the Pledge of Allegiance as the special session started on Monday in Austin, Texas.
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Trump Talks About Anything but Epstein on His Social Media Account

On Truth Social, the president railed against Democrats and shared a wacky video.

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Lawmakers have been pushing for the release of federal files on Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and one-time friend of President Trump who died in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking.
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Fear Comes to America

President Trump’s administration has created a climate of menace and trepidation to try to stifle dissent.

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ Dead at 54 After Drowning

Warner, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s characters on the beloved 1980s sitcom, drowned in Costa Rica.

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Warner received two Grammy nominations for his spoken-word poetry, winning in 2015 for his contributions to “Jesus Children,” by the Robert Glasper Experiment.
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Chinese Officers Questioned U.S. Government Employee About His Army Service

The man, a U.S. citizen, is barred from leaving China by the Ministry of State Security, the country’s main intelligence and counterintelligence agency.

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The Commerce Department employee is one of a handful of Americans barred by China from leaving the country, in a shadowy practice called an “exit ban” that the Chinese government has used for years.
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William L. Clay, Missouri’s First Black Congressman, Dies at 94

A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, he represented St. Louis in the House as an uncompromising liberal Democrat and a forceful advocate for the poor.

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“I represent those who are in need of representation,” Representative William L. Clay once said. “I have no intention of representing those powerful interests who walk over powerless people.”
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Marines Will Begin Withdrawing From Los Angeles

The departure of the Marines follows the removal of hundreds of other National Guard soldiers who were part of President Trump’s deployment to Los Angeles.

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Marines guarding the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles in June.
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Trump Posts Fake Video Showing Obama Arrest

President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video of former President Barack Obama being detained in the Oval Office.

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The fake video appears to be manipulated footage of an Oval Office meeting in November 2016 between then President Obama and Mr. Trump.
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Conviction of Man in Killing of Etan Patz Is Overturned

Pedro Hernandez, a former bodega stock clerk, had confessed years after the 1979 crime to luring Etan Patz, 6, into a basement in SoHo. The case shook New York City.

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Pedro Hernandez confessed to the crime, but later recanted. His lawyer argued that the confession was the product of psychotic hallucinations and delusions.
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The Trouble With Wanting Men

Women are so fed up with dating men that the phenomenon even has a name: heterofatalism. So what do we do with our desire?
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A Mill Town Lost Its Mill. What Is It Now?

Locals in Canton, N.C., are trying to figure out what’s next after losing the thing that gave them an identity: their beloved, stinky paper mill.

Demolition of the paper mill in Canton, N.C. For more than a century, the mill provided jobs with good salaries and a strong sense of identity for the town.
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Pedro Hernandez Found Guilty of Kidnapping and Killing Etan Patz in 1979

The verdict is a long-awaited step in solving the mystery that bedeviled investigators and forever changed the way parents watched over their children.

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Pedro Hernandez, shown in court in 2012, confessed to luring the 6-year-old Etan Patz into the basement of a bodega and attacking him in 1979.
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In Japan, Anti-Establishment Parties Resonate With Young Voters

The success of new political parties focused on wages, immigration and an unresponsive political elite highlights the frustrations of many working-age people in Japan.

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan meeting with leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Monday, a day after their defeat in parliamentary elections.
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Syrian Government Evacuates Bedouin Families After Deadly Clashes

The violence in Sweida Province between groups from Bedouin tribes and the Druse minority renewed fears of sectarian conflict and drew Israeli attacks before a cease-fire was announced Saturday.

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Bedouin tribe members, evacuating in the back of a truck, stopped at a security checkpoint in Taarah, in Syria’s southern Sweida Province, on Monday.
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