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By Rabbi Ben Kamin HARLEM, New York–Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 88 years old today, Sunday, January 15. As a pastor’s son growing up in the “Sweet Auburn” section of central Atlanta, pranking his friends and mimicking preachers with wicked accuracy, he’d had never dreamed that the day of his birth would be

In what is likely the final on-camera interview during his eight year stay at Washington’s most famous address, President Obama tells CBS that his family will be happy to be out of the White House come next weekend. Security constraints and other factors appear to have worn thin after eight years, he said, noting that

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump Saturday criticized as “all talk … no action” Rep. John Lewis, who was repeatedly beaten and nearly lost his life in the long struggle for civil rights. Trump’s Twitter comments early Saturday about the Georgia congressman followed Lewis’s assertion Friday that he did not see Trump as a “legitimate” president

WASHINGTON — Braced for protests by 99 groups and a new “global terrorist environment,” security officials plan to protect the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump with buses, dump trucks and heavy vehicles loaded with cement to thwart anyone who might try to plow vehicles through the crowds. “We know of no specific credible threat directed

Earlier in the week, Rep. John Lewis announced that he would skip the 2017 presidential inauguration. According to Lewis, he did not consider President-elect Donald Trump to be a legitimate president amid allegations that the 2016 presidential race was tampered by Russian interference. Trump came out guns blazing on Saturday morning and criticized Lewis, who

The House passed a 2017 budget Friday that lays the groundwork for dismantling Obamacare, brushing aside intra-GOP anxiety and defiant Democrats to launch the repeal-and-replace strategy staked out by President-elect Donald Trump. Nine Republicans balked at the politically thorny plan – the budget doesn’t balance, and the party hasn’t coalesced around a health bill of