July 22, 2025 - Page 2

FBI Releases 240K MLK Files Amid Family, SCLC 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

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Trump’s Tax Bill Adds $3.4T to Debt, Cuts Health Coverage

By Sahil Kapur President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which he signed into law this month, will add $3.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt over the next decade, according to a report the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office published Monday. The report found that the law, which Republicans passed along party lines, will also “increase by 10 million

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Ex-Officer Sentenced for Breonna Taylor Raid Shooting

By Patrick Smith, Marlene Lenthang and Tim Stelloh The Kentucky police officer who blindly fired 10 bullets into Breonna Taylor’s home in 2020 during a botched raid has been sentenced to nearly three years, her family’s lawyer said Monday. Former Louisville Metro Police Department detective Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months Monday after he was convicted of deprivation of

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