Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day,[1] is a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.[2] From 1868 to 1970, it was observed on May 30.[3] Since 1971, it is observed on the last Monday of May. Many people visit cemeteries and memorials on Memorial Day to honor and mourn those who died while serving in the U.S. military. Many volunteers place American flags on the graves of military personnel in national cemeteries. Memorial Day is also considered the unofficial beginning of summer.[4] The first national observance of Memorial Day occurred on May 30, 1868.[5] Then known as Decoration Day, the holiday was proclaimed by Commander in Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic to honor the Union soldiers who had died in the American Civil War.[6] This national observance was followed after by many local ones between the end of the Civil War and Logan's dec...

The wood-paneled boardroom featured at the end of episodes of “The Apprentice” helped refine the image of Donald Trump as a powerful businessman that launched his political career. But in a wood-paneled courtroom over the last month, the sad reality behind that image has again been revealed. Witnesses in Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan have testified under oath that Trump cheated on his wife with a porn star and a Playboy model, sought to cover up those and other indiscretions by paying people off and then reimbursed his attorney for the sum of the payoffs by claiming they were legal payments. Trump has denied all of this, and a jury will decide next week whether he is guilty of the charges. But in giving this testimony, the witnesses also gave valuable insight into how shoddily the Trump Organization was run. In one telling exchange, defense lawyers even sought to highlight part of the mismanagement. Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen was on the stand describing his various...