The Trump administration released hundreds of thousands of pages of records on Monday about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. despite concerns from the civil rights leader’s family.”The American people have waited nearly sixty years to see the full scope of the federal government’s investigation into Dr King’s assassination,” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a statement.”We are ensuring that no stone is left unturned in our mission to deliver complete transparency on this pivotal and tragic event in our nation’s history.”Gabbard said more than 230,000 pages of documents were being released and were being published “with minimal redactions for privacy reasons.”President Donald Trump signed an executive order after taking office declassifying files on the 1960s assassinations of president John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and King.The National Archives released records from John F. Kennedy’s November 1963 assassination in March and files related to the June 1968 murder of Robert F. Kennedy in April.King was assassinated in April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted of the murder and died in prison in 1998, but King’s children have expressed doubts that he was the assassin.In a statement on Monday, King’s two surviving children, Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, said they “support transparency and historical accountability” but were concerned the records could be used for “attacks on our father’s legacy.”The civil rights leader was the target during his lifetime of an “invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign” orchestrated by then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, they said in a joint statement.The FBI campaign was intended to “discredit, dismantle and destroy Dr. King’s reputation and the broader American Civil Rights Movement,” they said. “These actions were not only invasions of privacy, but intentional assaults on the truth.””We ask those who engage with the release of these files to do so with empathy, restraint, and respect for our family’s continuing grief,” they said.The Warren Commission that investigated the shooting of John F. Kennedy determined it was carried out by a former Marine sharpshooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.That formal conclusion has done little, however, to quell speculation that a more sinister plot was behind Kennedy’s murder in Dallas, Texas, and the slow release of the government files added fuel to various conspiracy theories.President Kennedy’s younger brother, Robert, a former attorney general, was assassinated while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian-born Jordanian, was convicted of his murder and is serving a life sentence in a prison in California.

Immigrants held at US detention centers have experienced abusive and degrading treatment, a Human Rights Watch report said Monday, in a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump’s migrant crackdown.The 92-page report alleges medical neglect, overcrowding and “inhuman” cell conditions at a time when the Trump administration is ramping up immigration enforcement with the promise of deporting millions.”People in immigration detention are being treated as less than human,” Belkis Wille, associate crisis and conflict director at HRW, said in a statement.In one alleged instance, shackled detainees being prepared for a transfer had to kneel and eat food from styrofoam plates with their hands behind their backs.”We had to put the plates on chairs and then bend down and eat with our mouths, like dogs,” one man was quoted as saying.The report, which focuses on three facilities in Florida, cites migrants sleeping on concrete floors and using their shoes as pillows. One man said he was denied access to soap or water to wash his hands for 20 consecutive days. Another complained that he was not allowed his medications, including insulin and an asthma inhaler.Some women reported being held in a cell with exposed toilets that were visible to men in nearby rooms. HRW, a New York-based nonprofit, documented the experiences of 17 immigrants for the report. Advocacy groups Americans for Immigrant Justice and Sanctuary of the South also contributed to the research.Florida is notably home to a new detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” which Trump visited in July, boasting about the harsh conditions and joking that the reptilian predators will serve as guards.The president has vowed to lead the largest migrant deportation program in US history, and lawmakers this month voted to inject around $45 billion into constructing immigration detention facilities.Trump’s hardline migration policy was a key element of his presidential campaign but has also sparked protests in the United States, which has the largest immigrant population in the world.The average daily migrant detention population in the United States has surged more than 40 percent since last June, according to the HRW report. It added that nearly 72 percent of individuals held as of mid-June had no criminal history.”The US government is detaining many people who pose no threat to public safety in conditions that violate basic human rights and dignity,” Wille said in a statement.

The 700 US Marines in Los Angeles are being withdrawn, ending a contentious deployment of the troops in the city, the Pentagon announced on Monday.President Donald Trump ordered thousands of National Guard and hundreds of Marines into Los Angeles last month in response to protests over federal immigration sweeps — a move opposed by city leaders and California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “has directed the redeployment of the 700 Marines whose presence sent a clear message: lawlessness will not be tolerated,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement.”Their rapid response, unwavering discipline, and unmistakable presence were instrumental in restoring order and upholding the rule of law,” he added.Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass also announced the withdrawal of the Marines in a post on X, saying it was “another win” for the city and that the presence of the troops was “an unnecessary deployment.”The removal of the Marines comes after the Pentagon said last week that Hegseth had ordered the withdrawal of 2,000 National Guard personnel from Los Angeles, roughly halving the deployment of those troops in the city.As a so-called “sanctuary city” with hundreds of thousands of undocumented people, Los Angeles has been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration since the Republican returned to office in January.After immigration enforcement raids spurred unrest and protests last month, Trump — who has repeatedly exaggerated the scale of the unrest — dispatched the National Guard and Marines to quell the disruption.It was the first time since 1965 that a US president deployed the National Guard against the wishes of a state governor.

US actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who played the son in the smash-hit sitcom “The Cosby Show,” has drowned in Costa Rica, authorities in the country said Monday. He was 54.Warner played the loveable Theo Huxtable for all eight seasons of the show, helmed by disgraced comic actor Bill Cosby.”We received a report of an adult male who died of drowning asphyxiation at Coles Beach in Cahuita” on Sunday afternoon, said a statement from investigating police.”When the victim entered the sea he was apparently pulled out by a current. “The man was assisted by bystanders on the beach, but was pronounced dead by Red Cross lifeguards.”Local authorities identified him as the actor, and said his body had been transferred to a morgue for further analysis.Warner, who was nominated for an Emmy for his work on “The Cosby Show,” also appeared in sitcoms “Malcolm & Eddie” and “Reed Between the Lines.””The Cosby Show,” which ran from 1984 to 1992, was one of the biggest TV hits of its time, detailing the lives of a middle-class Black family in New York.The show was inspired by the stand-up routines of Bill Cosby, who played the family’s patriarch, a successful doctor.The show was a commercial and critical hit, and was seen as groundbreaking for its depiction of a loving, happy Black family.But its legacy has been overshadowed in recent years by dozens of complaints of sexual assault against Cosby, a man once known as “America’s Dad.”