A Historical Date, And Today's News

Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.  He was in that city to support a strike by sanitation workers.  King was shot from a boarding house a block away, by someone who had mostly been a petty criminal.  Ever since then, there have been a number of conspiracy theories about who else may have been involved, but that is a discussion for another time.  In hindsight, it seems that the killing of King and of Robert Kennedy two months later brought the sixties to a horrific climax.

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Here are some things going on today:

From NBC News, the YouTube shooter has been identified.

From Breitbart California, the YouTube shooter was not stopped by any of California's gun control laws.

From the Washington Examiner, according to a federal judge, Texas has violated the motor-voter law.

From MissouriNet, the Missouri state House has passed a bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks.  (via LifeNews)

From Twitchy, the "caravan" of Central Americans migrating northward through Mexico has been "dissipating", but not ending.

From the Mirror, a British homeowner is arrested "on suspicion of murder" after killing a burglar.

From the Express, 14 people are injured when a fire breaks out at the Portuguese embassy in Sweden.

From Voice Of Europe, Spain has been dealing with "widespread but underreported" illegal immigration.

From TASS, Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the migration crisis can only be solved by dealing with the conflicts in the migrants' home countries.  (via Voice Of Europe)

From Russia Today, Putin claims that ISIS in Syria has been "completely defeated".

From Breitbart London, according to a study, the recent increase in youth violence in Germany is mainly due to children with foreign backgrounds.

From El País, Spanish Socialists propose measures to deal with "fake news".

From YLE, Finnish police expect escorted deportations to double this year.

From The Local SE, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Sweden and Denmark next week.

From Flanders News, Belgium will crack down on fraudulent student visa applications.

From Sputnik International, a report on French President Macron and the railway strikers.

From Euractiv, Turkey's first nuclear power plant will be built by Russians.

From Arutz Sheva, an Egyptian sheikh who had called for the annihilation of Jews is invited to speak in Canada.

From Free Malaysia Today, the Universiti Sains Malaysia holds a contest on how to "convert" LGBT students.

From IOL, the United States places the Pakistani political party Milli Muslim League on its list of foreign terror organizations.

From Gatestone Institute, the U.K. funds Palestinian textbooks.

From J-Wire, the new tactic of Hamas is using "human matchsticks".

From National Review, a look at the movie Chappaquiddick.

From Townhall, another look at Chappaquiddick.

From The Daily Signal, a man whose son was killed by an illegal alien announces a voter initiative against California's sanctuary state law.

From the New York Post, after being out of football last year, Robert Griffin III is signed by the Baltimore Ravens.

From Page Six, after 15 of years of marriage, former NY Mayor Rudy and Judith Giuliani are getting divorced.

And from Rolling Stone, Weird Al gets cheesy.