Trump administration releases 240,000 pages on FBI surveillance, assassination of Martin Luther King

The Trump administration has released more than 240,000 pages of long-sealed documents detailing the FBI’s surveillance and investigation of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. — a move that has drawn mixed reactions from the King family and civil rights advocates.

The documents, some of which date back to the 1960s, had been under a court-ordered seal since 1977. Their release was authorized under a transparency initiative…