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Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Federal judge hints at early release of MLK Jr assassination files following Trump's order
The government's secret files on the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. could be released ahead of schedule after a federal judge in Washington indicated he was open to doing so. In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order, demanding the release of all government documents pertaining to the shootings of MLK, as well as both President John F Kennedy and his brother, Robert F Kennedy, in the 1960s. 'Their families and the American people deserve transparency and truth,' Trump said in the order. 'It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay.' Dr King was shot dead on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4 1968, with the official narrative remaining that the gunman was the petty criminal James Earl Ray, who hit him with a Remington rifle fired from the window of a rented room in a boarding house standing across the street. In 1977, a judge ordered the government to unseal all of the files it holds on the case and make them public in 2027. However, at Wednesday's hearing in Washington, Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia suggested he was prepared to bring the release date forward to comply with Trump's wishes, although he also emphasized the importance of sensitivity. Judge Leon said the first step would be for the National Archives and Records Administration to show him the complete inventory of files it has in its possession on the MLK assassination and the FBI investigation that followed, so as to establish the size of the processing task ahead. The hearing was prompted by a lawsuit filed by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights organization based in King's native Atlanta, Georgia, which seeks to halt the expedited release. Before the judge's ruling, Sumayya Saleh, a lawyer representing the conference, had argued that the push to publish the documents amounted to a 'deliberate effort to undermine the civil rights movement' and to 'discredit' MLK's legacy. Justice Department lawyer Johnny Walker proposed that officials from his agency be allowed to comb through the papers first and produce a subset that the justice and the conference could peruse before approving or challenging their release. Judge Leon ultimately determined that he should have the first look, describing the situation as 'the first few steps in a journey' that could take years and reminding both sides: 'This is delicate stuff.' 'Keep the lines of communication open,' he ordered the Justice Department and Southern Christian Leadership Conference, saying he would 'bless' any agreement between them to examine the files jointly. 'That's in everyone's interest, including the president's.' The King family has long contested that version of events, and the killing has been the subject of conspiracy theories ever since, with some suggesting a police sharpshooter really fired the fatal shot and others that Ray had accepted a $50,000 bounty put forward by segregationist groups to make the hit. 'The Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband… Mr Ray was set up to take the blame,' the deceased's widow, Coretta Scott King, said in 1999.
Yahoo
16 hours ago
- Health
- Yahoo
State health officials urge kids, pregnant women to get COVID-19 vaccine despite federal pullback
Wisconsin's state health department still recommends the COVID-19 vaccine, despite discord at the federal level after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it would no longer be recommended for children and pregnant women. "The recent changes in (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) guidance were not made based on new data, evidence or scientific or medical studies, nor was the guidance issued following normal processes," a June 4 news release from the state health department said. Kennedy, a vocal vaccine critic, announced May 27 in a video on X that the CDC would no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women. He did not cite new evidence in doing so. CDC guidance published days later still recommended COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children if their parents and doctors agree, but said the vaccines are no longer recommended during pregnancy. Children can contract COVID-19 like any other person, but are less likely to become seriously ill from the virus than adults, though they can still spread it to more vulnerable individuals. Pregnant women, however, are more likely to become seriously ill, which can lead to preterm birth and other problems. Experts say vaccination during pregnancy can safeguard infants after birth because babies depend on maternal antibodies for early immunity. Federal vaccine recommendations matter not just because the public pays attention to them, but because it can affect which vaccines insurers decide to cover, said Patrick Remington, emeritus professor at UW-Madison's School of Medicine and Public Health. Given the recommendation from the state, Remington said he's hopeful companies that insure people in Wisconsin will continue covering the COVID-19 vaccine despite the change in federal recommendations. Wisconsin's Medicaid program will continue to cover the vaccine, according to the news release. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which sets recommendations for vaccines in the U.S., is not scheduled to meet until later in June. The group is discussing whether to narrow its recommendation about who should receive COVID-19 booster shots. There's room for healthy debate about the benefits and risks of the COVID-19 vaccine for certain groups of people, Remington said, because it's part of how science works. But he said that debate should take place among the members of the advisory committee, who are independent medical experts. For Kennedy to bring his personal beliefs about vaccines into his recommendations is unfortunate, Remington said. "When you see disagreement between the federal government's recommendations and what experts, like at (the state health department) say, sometimes the public throws up their hands and says, 'If they can't agree, I don't believe anything,'" he said. If someone is confused about the differing recommendations and wants advice on their particular situation, Remington suggested talking with a doctor, who'll be able to consider their personal circumstances when it comes to future doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Less than one in five Wisconsinites have received at least one dose of the most current COVID-19 vaccine, according to data from the state health department. Nearly half of those who have are adults 65 and older. More: COVID, conspiracy theories and a billboard campaign: Grace Schara's hospital death finally sees trial More: How were Milwaukee-area health departments using COVID-era grants cut by the Trump administration? Madeline Heim covers health and the environment for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Contact her at 920-996-7266 or mheim@ This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin health department still recommends COVID-19 vaccine
Scotsman
2 days ago
- Business
- Scotsman
The Scots inventor of an early typewriter and a "magical letter" home from New York
Number 1 Remington typewriter, the first type of Remington made, around 1864. PIC: NMS | NMS A letter send home to Scotland from New York more than 150 years ago hints that one of the earliest typewriters may have been invented in the industrial powerhouse of Paisley decades before the machines first came on the market. Sign up to our History and Heritage newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... John Galloway was a Paisley man with an inventive spirit - and a determination to succeed. He emigrated from Scotland to New York in the early 1840s and now a letter written home by the Scot indicates he was working on the invention of the typewriter before he left these shores - and decades before the typewriter first hit the market. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The correspondence, which includes an early piece of typed print, was written in 1868 and has been donated to the National Museum of Scotland by Robin Collins, the great, great, great niece of Galloway, who described it as a 'magical little letter'. The letter written in 1868 which details Galloway's invention of an early writing machine, which he likened to a piano which printed letters. | NMS The correspondence illuminates the Scots role in the development of the early writing machine, which he likened to a piano that could print letters. 'When I was young in comparison to what I now am, I took up the idea that some kind of machine could be made with keys, similar to those of a piano, to print letters, instead of writing them with a pen,' Galloway wrote home to his niece. He added: 'It would surely be as easy and as speedy to operate upon keys with the fingers, as to write with a pen; the trouble of learning would be less and the composition would be more easily read than when done up in a rugged scrawl.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad READ MORE: Eight stunning photographs of New York from the air Before leaving for America, Galloway lived in the industrial powerhouse of Paisley. He came from a family of engineers and Galloway worked as a millwright in the town alive with learning and innovation as progress was pushed. New York, the adopted home of inventor John Galloway, in 1954. He left Paisley for America with his wife in the mid 1840s. PIC: Public Collection/New York Public Lending Library Collection. | Public Collection/New York Public Lending Library Collection. Dr Rebekah Higgitt, principal curator of science at NMS, said: 'The letter is evidence of the existence of an early machine for typewriting, which we didn't know about. 'Galloway went for a patent for a machine in the 1870s, but this is evidence of two early machines. One of these was made in New York but he talks about an earlier one. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'We are trying to work out exactly when he emigrated, but we think the early machine was possibly made in Paisley.' Galloway's early typewriter does not survive, but the letter and the little sample of typed text from his later invention - shed light on the man and his dream for the writing machine which later transformed communication and the world of work, particularly for women. Galloway wrote he had constructed 'an apparatus with which I accomplished that object, with the exception that the impression was made in relief, only, instead of being done with colour.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Number 1 Remington typewriter, the first type of Remington made, around 1864. PIC: NMS | NMS Galloway told his niece that he still had some samples 'made at the time', but it is unclear exactly when that was. 'Certainly, it was in Scotland,' Dr Higgitt said. READ MORE: The Scottish islanders conned by a new life in New York Galloway wrote of leaving Scotland for America shortly after his first typewriter took shape, with the project abandoned. Whether he left his early model behind is not known. He left at a time of significant economic hardship in Paisley and industrial change, with widespread bankruptices, particularly among mill owners, and high rates of unemployment recorded. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad By 1950, he was living in New York and was almost 40 at that time. He and his wife, Janet, were listed in the census with their baby son, who was born in America. This would date his work on the typewriter before that of Peter Hood, who was working on a writing machine in Angus in the 1850s, the curator added. The US-based E. Remington & Son made by an early typewriterin 1864 with modern versions made and exported from 1876. The timeline puts Galloway's machines potentially decades ahead of when these typewriters first arrived in Scotland from America. They were considered luxury items which then cost the equivalent of half the average annual salary. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Meanwhile, Galloway was working as a bookseller in New York, with his two sons later involved in the business. Despite his employment, Galloway pressed on with his inventions and was granted two patents in New York, one in 1873 for an 'Improvement in Type-Writing Machines' and one in 1883 - three years after he retired - for a stenographic machine. Another piece of evidence potentially adds further weight to Galloway's role in the development of the typewriter. A short pamphlet was published in 1837 by a man of the same name called 'A New System of Stenography', which introduced a novel system of shorthand writing. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad In the 1868 letter, Galloway wrote of his second machine, which - unlike the first - printed letters with ink. According to Dr Higgitt, this was almost contemporary with a machine with piano-style keys which was patented that year by Sholes, Glidden and Soule. Galloway wrote that his machine would have been better 'had it been made by a regular machinist, and with proper materials'. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad At the time of the letter, Galloway's wife was seriously ill and his aspirations for his new family life across the Atlantic were being challenged with the realities of low-paid opportunities and a long, cold winter. But his vision for the typewriter remained intact,.The sample typed text sent home to Scotland opens with a line from poet Robert Burns: 'And faith he'll print it'. The letter talks about the weather, the fine and long autumn turning to a cold winter, and the high fuel costs which, he wrote, would cause 'much suffering among the poor'. The correspondence added: 'Rents are so outrageously high here, and all the necessaries of life are so high also, that it requires great exertion to make a decent livelihood. We find it difficult to make any headway, notwithstanding all our efforts.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Galloway never patented his invention, which seemed to come at a difficult time in his life. Shortly after writing the letter home, his wife died. Mrs Collins, of Yetholm in the Scottish Borders, donated the letter and the typed text after visiting The Typewriter Revolution exhibition in 2021 'by chance'.
Scotsman
27-05-2025
- Business
- Scotsman
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Scotsman
27-05-2025
- Business
- Scotsman
73% off the Remington Keratin Protect Intelligent Hair Straightener
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