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  • 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 ...

  • Firings over callous remarks on Kirk’s killing spark debate on limits of free speech

    Firings over callous remarks on Kirk’s killing spark debate on limits of free speech

    Sep 15, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... slavery materials in the 1840s and 1850s, whether that is, as was mentioned before, Joseph McCarthy and the blacklist, whether that was the suppression of speech in the Jim Crow South. And you can speak to any number of private individuals who have been harmed and killed in the course ...

  • Son of detained Hong Kong journalist Jimmy Lai on Beijing’s crackdown on speech

    Son of detained Hong Kong journalist Jimmy Lai on Beijing’s crackdown on speech

    Sep 12, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    A Hong Kong court is set to deliver a verdict soon for democracy activist and media magnate Jimmy Lai, who has been detained for five years. He’s accused of sedition and collusion with foreign forces, but his supporters call the trial a sham and say the only thing he’s guilty of committing is journalism. Nick...

  • Trump says he didn't know an offensive term he used in a speech is considered antisemitic

    Trump says he didn't know an offensive term he used in a speech is considered antisemitic

    Jul 04, 2025 02:10 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he didn't know the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders. Trump told reporters early Friday after returning from an event in Iowa that he had “never heard it that way” and “never heard ...

  • WATCH: House Minority Leader Jeffries gives marathon speech criticizing GOP tax cut bill

    WATCH: House Minority Leader Jeffries gives marathon speech criticizing GOP tax cut bill

    Jul 03, 2025 02:49 PM EST

    ... for any interaction with other members.Republicans who were sitting on the floor when Jeffries started trickled out, leaving half the chamber empty. When the speech was over, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., called it “a bunch of hogwash." The speech “will not change the ...

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