though the majority of business closures will be for MLK Day. King’s actual birthday is on Jan. 15, but the federal holiday always falls on the third Monday of January. Just four days after King ...

WHITE RUSSIAN Connections grids vary widely and change every day. If you couldn’t solve today’s puzzle, be sure to check back in tomorrow. Wyna Liu, who has been editing puzzles at The New ...

Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. A new green space began to take shape at Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy in East Palo Alto on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 20. Over 170 volunteers gathered ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and ...

“From now on, a new journey begins.” Yoon, who is currently suspended from office, was originally arrested on Jan. 15, making him the first sitting South Korean president to be detained on ...

The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution, co-sponsored by Pakistan, proclaiming January 26 as the International Day of Clean Energy. The text, which was adopted without a vote, underlined the ...

President Donald Trump continued to defend his controversial pardons of the Jan. 6 rioters with false claims that they were wrongly prosecuted. President Joe Biden issued pardons to several close ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution sponsored by 60 Member-States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which designated 15 March as the International Day to ...