Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the third Monday in January, became federally recognized in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan signed it into law.

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a U.S. holiday and national day of service. It took a long time for the country to get there It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a ...

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is free to visit 24 hours a day, but National Park Service rangers are only available to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. It can be reached by ...

Iran and the United States prepared Saturday to start in-depth negotiations in Oman over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear ...

President Donald Trump had a complicated relationship with Pope Francis, whose funeral he plans to attend Saturday.

Pope Francis addressed Congress in 2015 and reminded us that day of our common responsibility to the least of these, focusing ...

I'm surrounded by people who I know that love God and are doing (miming) for the same reason that I’m doing it," one of the ...

By the time Francis took over as leader of the Catholic Church in 2013, meetings between the president and the pontiff had become commonplace. During the dozen years that he served as the pontiff, ...

The county’s impound garage for crime scene vehicles was deemed unsafe by its insurance company in 2022, citing no running ...

Her appeal to the president was part of an advocacy for marginalized communities that took root as a Christian missionary in ...