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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

King's Promised Land: Will we get there?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famous sermon,

Far from the 'mountaintop'

Thousands gathered Wednesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as he stood on a balcony at Memphis' Lorraine Motel. One day earlier, during his last speech, he told followers he had "been to the mountaintop" and "seen the Promised Land" of racial justice. A half century later, the nation is seeing a steady rise in white supremacy and mounting tensions between the black community and police departments. Some question whether America is moving backward on race relations.

•	Witness to murder: Many Americans remember where they were when King was assassinated. A few were actually there.
•	How Memphis changed: The fires and smoke are gone, but echoes of that fatal shot still reverberate throughout the city.
•	Future activists: King was a victim of gun violence. At last month's March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., his 9-year-old granddaughter, Yolanda Renee King, had some things to say on that topic.

What we know about the YouTube shooting

What happened? Nasim Aghdam, 39, a San Diego woman, allegedly shot and wounded three people Tuesday at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., before apparently killing herself.
Why? Police said she was angry about YouTube's policies and practices. Aghdam's father said she thought the company censored her videos and had stopped paying her for her content.
Wait, what? YouTube has made recent policy changes that have upset many creators.
Previous contact with police: Patrol officers spoke to Aghdam hours before the attack, while responding to a missing persons report about her that had been filed by her family. Police found her asleep in a parking lot about 30 minutes away from San Bruno. She told the officers she had left her house because of family issues. The officers said she was calm, and they didn't suspect she was a danger to herself or others.

Mueller clarifies

While President Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign remain under investigation over possible links to Russia, the president's legal team has been told that Trump is not a target of the probe, officials said Wednesday. He is, however, still a subject. That means his lawyers are breathing a bit easier, but the president is far from in the clear. "It can easily flip to being a target in the blink of an eye," said Michael Caputo, a former senior adviser on the Trump campaign. "The president and his lawyers need to continue to be vigilant."

They drove their family off a cliff. People suspected abuse

Over the past decade, authorities in Oregon, Washington and Minnesota received reports of child welfare concerns and alleged abuse involving Jennifer and Sarah Hart, who died with at least three of their children when their SUV plunged 100 feet over a California cliff last month. Three of their other children are missing. Authorities now believe the crash was intentional. One of the missing children is Devonte Hart, an African-American boy featured in a 2014 photo hugging a police officer during a Ferguson-related protest in Portland, Ore., that went viral.

An Ancestry DNA test revealed her father is her parents' fertility doctor

A 36-year-old woman thought something went wrong with her DNA results from Ancestry.com when an unknown name was identified as her biological father. She later learned it was the name of her parents' fertility doctor, who without consent allegedly used his own sperm to impregnate her mother. Now, the woman is suing the doctor and the clinic.

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CBS and Viacom are again talking about a merger, which could have repercussions for TV lovers.

You can save your TV show: The ballot for 2018's Save Our Shows poll is here.

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