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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman, the National Archives have published thousands of documents relating to the nineteen sixty-eight assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. This follows President Trump's executive order to declassify and release records connected to his murder, as well as the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. And Pierre's Elena Moore reports.
It's not immediately clear what new information related to King's assassination will be found in these documents. But Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, says more than 230,000 files are being released. She says that it includes details about the FBI's investigation and James Earl Ray, who was convicted of murdering King. In response, King's family argued that the document should. should be viewed within their full historical context, saying that during King's lifetime, he was targeted by federal law enforcement in what his family called a quote invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign. Elena Moore, NPR News, Washington.
Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration faced off in a federal courtroom in Boston yesterday. The Trump administration is seeking to cut off billions of dollars in federal funding from the university. From member station GBH Kirk Carapaza reports opponents to the cuts to Harvard made their case yesterday. Inside
a packed courtroom, lawyers for Harvard argued the administration's cuts were arbitrary and punished the university under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism. They say the federal government's actions threatened vital research and set a dangerous precedent. Lawyers for the administration countered that federal funding is a privilege, not a right, and said the cuts were tied to outstanding civil rights complaints. Judge Allison Burroughs questioned why funding was pulled wholesale rather than targeting specific programs or labs. Harvard is pushing for a quick ruling so research can move forward. For NPR News, I'm Kirk Carapesa in Boston.
The Homeland Security Department is getting ready to use two US military bases to detain migrants who are in the country illegally. NPR's Tom Bowman has more.
The bases include the National Guard's Camp Atterbury, Indiana, and also the active duty joint base Maguire Dix Lakehurst in New Jersey. And both locations will be used for temporary housing for those who have connections to transnational criminal organizations or criminal drug activity.
NPR's Tom Bowman prepared that report. A letter from the Pentagon says that the migrants in the US illegally will be supervised by officers from immigrations and customs enforcement and contractors for the Department of Homeland Security. They won't be guarded by US military members who are in the Defense Department, a separate federal agency. You're listening to NPR. Officials in Bangladesh say the death toll is now thirty-one people from yesterday's military jet crash. A Bangladeshi Air Force jet crashed into a school in the capital, Dhaka. This killed the pilot and thirty other people, mostly children. Today is a day of national mourning, but hundreds of Bangladeshi students have turned out to protest today, demanding answers.
President Trump is scheduled to receive Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos junior at the White House today. They're expected to discuss Trump's tariffs, they'll also talk about security. If today feels unusually short, you can blame it on the Earth's rotation. As NPS Nell Greenfield Boyce explains, the Earth's rotation is expected to be a tiny bit faster today.
A full rotation of the Earth takes 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds. But our planet sometimes spins a little quicker or slower. The speed is influenced by all kinds of things: the weather, the movements of the planet's liquid core, as well as the influence of the moon. Earlier this month, on July 9th, a particularly speedy spin shortened the day by nearly 1.4 milliseconds. seconds. This week is expected to have a few similarly short days.
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