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  • WATCH: Sen. Merkley stages marathon overnight speech to protest Trump during shutdown

    WATCH: Sen. Merkley stages marathon overnight speech to protest Trump during shutdown

    Oct 22, 2025 02:51 PM EDT

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RIYswjRACo Merkley said during his speech that Republicans were the ones shutting down the government “to continue the strategy of slashing Americans’ health care” after passing cuts to Medicaid and other programs over the summer. He used several hours of his speech to describe ...

  • WATCH: Trump celebrates hostage release, calls for Netanyahu pardon in speech to Israeli parliament

    WATCH: Trump celebrates hostage release, calls for Netanyahu pardon in speech to Israeli parliament

    Oct 13, 2025 02:47 PM EDT

    ... U.S. president will continue on to Egypt for a summit with more than two dozen other nations, although he was running hours late as speeches at the Knesset continued longer than expected. "They might not be there by the time I get there, but we’ll give it a ...

  • In 'Terms of Respect,' Princeton president argues colleges are encouraging free speech

    In 'Terms of Respect,' Princeton president argues colleges are encouraging free speech

    Sep 30, 2025 10:25 PM EDT

    Christopher L. Eisgruber: Yes. I think one of the things to understand about the terms of respect and what respect is, nobody gets to authoritatively define what respect means. Part of what we do in the United States, an important part of free speech controversies is that we contest what ...

  • Law professor sues West Point over rules he says curb free speech

    Law professor sues West Point over rules he says curb free speech

    Sep 24, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is facing a lawsuit that claims it’s violating the First Amendment. The suit, filed by its own law professor, Tim Bakken, alleges that the academy is banning professors from expressing opinions in the classroom and demanding that they seek approval to speak publicly. Geoff Bennett sat down with...

  • Trump manages another Republican makeover, this time on free speech and cancel culture

    Trump manages another Republican makeover, this time on free speech and cancel culture

    Sep 24, 2025 06:19 PM EDT

    ... in charge again. "They will silence us,” Cruz said. The organization Kirk founded, Turning Point USA, has not commented directly on the Trump shift on speech, though his widow and new Turning Point CEO Erika Kirk on Sunday called the First Amendment “the most human amendment” and said “no assassin ...

  • 7 key moments from Trump's U.N. speech

    7 key moments from Trump's U.N. speech

    Sep 23, 2025 07:25 PM EDT

    When President Donald Trump returned to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, his speech underscored a familiar opposition to the mission of the United Nations.

  • WATCH: Trump opens U.N. General Assembly speech with apparent teleprompter malfunction

    WATCH: Trump opens U.N. General Assembly speech with apparent teleprompter malfunction

    Sep 23, 2025 06:35 PM EDT

    President Donald Trump said he was delivering his speech to the United Nations General Assembly without the use of a working teleprompter. Watch the clip in the video player above. Trump stepped to the podium in New York Tuesday morning, thanked the crowd inside the hall and then opened his ...

  • Hundreds of stars sign ACLU letter defending free speech after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension

    Hundreds of stars sign ACLU letter defending free speech after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension

    Sep 22, 2025 04:50 PM EDT

    ... writers added their names to an open letter Monday from the American Civil Liberties Union that argues it is "a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation." The move comes less than a week after ABC suspended Kimmel's late-night talk show following comments he made about ...

  • After Jimmy Kimmel's show was suspended, a key question is: Does the FCC have the power to regulate speech?

    After Jimmy Kimmel's show was suspended, a key question is: Does the FCC have the power to regulate speech?

    Sep 19, 2025 04:53 PM EDT

    WATCH: What the move to pull Kimmel off the air says about free speech under Trump The FCC says on its website that "news distortion must involve a significant event." There is a distinction between "deliberate distortion" and inaccuracies and differences of opinion. Broadcasters are only subject to enforcement if ...

  • What the move to pull Kimmel off the air says about free speech under Trump

    What the move to pull Kimmel off the air says about free speech under Trump

    Sep 18, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... is a violation of the First Amendment. If there's anything that violates the First Amendment, it's government pressure and coercion to censor political speech. William Brangham: Now, that is something that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr used to believe. There are multiple statements where he is echoing that same ...

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