One video shows multiple Black women screaming and pounding on a door with the caption "store under attack." Another captures distraught Walmart employeesof color being loaded into an ICE van.
For Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the North's civil rights story has lived too long in the shadows. The noted civil rights organization's new museum in Harlem is its push to bring that history into the light — permanently.
Why it matters: The Urban Civil Rights Museum will be New York City's first museum dedicated to the American civil rights movement, and uniquely focused on the North — housing discrimination, policing, education, economic exclusion and the grassroots organizing that shaped modern Black political power.
Several members of President Trump's national security team have taken on unusually large public profiles — with frequent on-camera appearances, dramatic pronouncements and even eyebrow-raising wardrobe choices.
Why it matters: It's no secret that Trump prefers his appointees to appear straight out of "central casting." But in national security roles, showmanship can quickly become a liability.
The Trump administration will lay out its construction plan for the new White House ballroom at a planning commission meeting next month.
Why it matters: The "information presentation" is the first step of the National Capital Planning Commission's review process, and it will be the first time commissioners get to question the president's controversial plans after bulldozing the East Wing.
President Trump plans several big announcements on Gaza in early January, but the next steps hinge on his meeting on Monday at Mar-a-Lago with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Why it matters: White House officials think Netanyahu is slow-walking the peace process, and fear he will resume the war with Hamas. But while the Israeli prime minister is butting heads with Trump's team, he hopes to bring the president himself over to his more hawkish point of view, a senior Israeli official said.
The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide.
Why it matters: The great unchurching of America comes as identity and reality are increasingly shaped by non-institutional spiritual sources — YouTube mystics, TikTok tarot, digital skeptics, folk saints and AI-generated prayer bots.
The U.S. military "launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS" in Nigeria's northwest on Christmas Day following the targeting of Christians in the West African country, President Trump announced Thursday.
The big picture: U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on X it "conducted strikes against ISIS terrorists in Nigeria" in Sokoto State on Thursday at the direction of the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, "and in coordination with Nigerian authorities."
