Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Government offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 19, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. The federal holiday ...

Donald Trump has become the first U.S. president since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established to not issue a proclamation honoring the federal holiday, breaking a tradition observed for nearly 40 ...

The second federal holiday of 2026 is here. Jan. 19 marks the day that Americans honor the legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King was born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta. But the ...

President Donald Trump has finally made an official post in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, after hours of railing against alleged election fraud on his Truth Social account. In a ...

Nearly 60 years after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and decades after a hard-fought campaign to make his birthday a federal holiday, organizers, city leaders and scholars ...

Editor's note: Versions of this editorial have appeared at earlier holidays. It was 43 years ago that President Ronald Reagan made the third Monday in January an official federal holiday to honor ...