welcome to prime time weekend, let s get right to the week s top stories. 22 witnesses, 21 days of court, 80 hours of witness testimony later, the first-ever criminal trial of an american ex-president is coming to a close. the fate of the ex-president could be in the hands of 12 every day new yorkers from all walks of life. the prosecution has one last chance to hammer home it s case against trump and closing arguments, that happens tuesday, given that the defense put up just to witnesses, their eight hour cross-examination of michael cohen lasting four times longer than their entire presentation, only the manhattan da is wrestling with the challenge of reminding the jury about all of the testimony presented. all of the documentary evidence, bombshell after bombshell, after bombshell. here s just some of what the jury heard as told by the press covering it. jurors listening intently today as the former publisher of the inquire testified about the confidential arrangement
Rishi Sunak and Lord Cameron have been accused of taking “a back seat” in efforts to free a British citizen whom MPs fear will be the next dissident to be killed in a Russian prison.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Defended Democracy Against Racism and So Must We
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. makes a phone call from the office of the Negro First Baptist Church during an all-night vigil after a white mob attacked a mass meeting in progress at the church late on May 21, 1961.
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A racist mob broke church windows and threatened to kill Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1,500 activists sitting terrified inside First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in May 1961. The angry men believed in the Lost Cause of the Confederacy and circled the church because, for them, whiteness was more important than democracy.
So let me offer a modest dissent. first, the cables don t show the united states doing anything duplicitous or underhand or scandalous. in the 1960s and 70s, america were often engaged in policies off sit of its stated foreign polici policies. but now there are now stories of attempted assassinations or closet deals. the secret diplomacy is remarkably consistent with its public diplomacy. i also have to confess that the level and quality of analysis in these cables is a lot better than i would have guessed. american kip low matts come across as sharp, well informed and lucid with their pens or their computer keyboards. the big substantive revelation is that air ran regimes worry a lot more about iran than they say so publicly. and they have been urging