| Fifty years after King’s assassination, the Poor People’s Campaign relaunches Posted: 14 May 2018 02:23 PM PDT ![Fifty years after King's assassination, the Poor People's Campaign relaunches]( "Fifty years after King's assassination, the Poor People's Campaign relaunches") The headquarters of the Poor People's Campaign of 1968, the sprawling camp on the National Mall lost its chief architect, The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., when he was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. After a police crackdown on the remaining campers in June of that year, the camp and its populist struggle against economic inequality faded into the whir of Woodstock and war. Bernard Lafayette, of Tampa, Fla., was the organizer of the Poor People's Campaign. In another era of upheaval and dissonance, Lafayette and the Poor People's Campaign is back to remind Americans that, as one 1968 brochure read, "Poor people are kept in poverty because they are kept from power." Starting on Monday, thousands of Americans, largely poor, will begin a 40-day campaign of protest and civil disobedience.
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| Mixing sports and sports gambling is no game Posted: 14 May 2018 01:27 PM PDT ![Mixing sports and sports gambling is no game]( "Mixing sports and sports gambling is no game") In a big decision May 14, the Supreme Court overturned a 1992 federal law that had effectively banned all states except Nevada from legalizing sports betting. The court had no opinion about sports gambling itself or about any possible new ban on interstate sports gambling or on individuals who wager on sports.
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| Debate in Iran: Is nuclear deal worth keeping without US? Posted: 14 May 2018 12:37 PM PDT ![Debate in Iran: Is nuclear deal worth keeping without US?]( "Debate in Iran: Is nuclear deal worth keeping without US?") President Trump's decision to withdraw unilaterally from the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal last week sparked fireworks in Tehran. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made clear that Mr. Trump's decision was, in his view, further proof that the US could never be trusted to keep its word. Recommended: How much do you know about Iran?
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| Despite Israel-Iran clash, political forces work against escalation Posted: 14 May 2018 11:36 AM PDT ![Despite Israel-Iran clash, political forces work against escalation]( "Despite Israel-Iran clash, political forces work against escalation") The only certainty in the wake of last week's Israeli air attack on Iranian forces in Syria – Israel's largest military operation there in decades – is that it won't be the last. If Iran persists in trying to establish bases of operation in Syria, and in trying to provide more advanced and accurate missiles to Hezbollah, the chances of Israel not responding with force are approximately zero.
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