Hoping to organize a march against poverty, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was working with Mexican American civil rights leaders in Texas and California a few months before his assassination.
Through the lens: These photos show how many Latinos in the U.S. and Latin America have been inspired by King in their pushes for human and civil rights and immigration reform.
An 18-year-old Indiana University student was stabbed multiple times in the head on Wednesday while riding a bus, in what officials are describing as a "racially motivated" attack.
Driving the news: Billie R. Davis, 56 of Bloomington, allegedly told police she targeted the woman "due to [her] being Chinese" and "made statements that race was a factor in why she stabbed her," per court documents obtained by the Washington Post.
Ukrainian soccer club Shakhtar Donetsk on Monday announced a $25 million program to support Mariupol soldiers and the families of fallen soldiers.
The big picture: The project, called "Heart of Azovstal," comes after the club sold its star player, the 22-year-old Mykhailo Mudryk, to Chelsea Football Club in a deal worth around $110 million.
Italian police on Monday arrested the country's most-wanted fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro, a boss of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia, AP reports.
Why it matters: Messina Denaro had been on the run from authorities for three decades. He was tried and convicted in absentia in 2002 for numerous murders, receiving multiple life sentences.
The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the Dnipro, central Ukraine, over the weekend has risen to at least 40, including three children, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said in a post on Telegram on Monday morning.
The latest: The emergency service said the missile strike also injured at least 75 people, including 14 children, and that 46 other people were reported as missing.
Economic fear is creating record levels of polarization around the globe, particularly in developed nations with slow-growth economies, like Spain and Japan, according to Edelman's latest annual Trust Barometer survey.
Why it matters: Polarization leads to instability, creating uncertainty for business. That puts more pressure on companies and corporate leaders to establish the trust among consumers that governments have failed to win.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in Switzerland on Wednesday to discuss the world economy, a short stop on her way to Africa for some soft diplomacy — and a hard sell on America's commitment to the continent.
Why it matters: The first face-to-face meeting between Yellen and a key figure in China's ruling Communist Party is part of the Biden administration’s effort to reset — and stabilize — the U.S. and China relationship, according to a Treasury official.
A Nepal plane carrying 72 people crashed Sunday and killed at least 68 in the country's deadliest air disaster in over 30 years — as officials warned the chances of finding survivors was "nil," AFP reports.
The latest: Search teams on Monday located the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of the ATR 72 aircraft, operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, which was flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara Airport, when it crashed, per Reuters.
The U.S. military began expanded combat training of Ukrainian forces in Germany Sunday — with some 500 soldiers set to participate in the "combined arms" program over the next weeks before returning to Ukraine, per AP.
Driving the news: Gen. Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told two reporters traveling with him to Europe that the large-scale training in addition to a raft of new weaponry for Ukraine would be crucial in Ukrainian forces' push to regain territory seized by Russia's military, as the invasion nears its 11th month, AP reports.
