• From Jennifer Garner to Tim Cook, highlights from 2019 graduation speeches

    From Jennifer Garner to Tim Cook, highlights from 2019 graduation speeches

    May 31, 2019 10:25 PM EST

    ... place my faith in the highest possible intentions in all things these days, in raising my kid, in choosing my projects, recording music, in making speeches that I suspect will be forgotten. I hope you will do the same. We have so much work to do, class of 2019. Thank ...

  • Biden focuses on Trump in Philadelphia speech

    Biden focuses on Trump in Philadelphia speech

    May 18, 2019 10:02 PM EST

    With 23 Democrats in the race for their party’s presidential nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden is the most recognizable name. But Biden used a campaign kick-off speech in Philadelphia to focus on President Trump and not on his Democratic rivals. NewsHour’s digital politics editor and senior ...

  • WATCH: Trump immigration speech outlines changes to green card and visa systems

    WATCH: Trump immigration speech outlines changes to green card and visa systems

    May 15, 2019 10:31 PM EST

    The latest effort, spearheaded by President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, focuses on beefing up border security and rethinking the nation's green card system so that it would favor people with high-level skills, degrees and job offers instead of relatives of those already in the country.

  • Facebook moderators battle hate speech and violence

    Facebook moderators battle hate speech and violence

    May 04, 2019 07:05 PM EST

    ... debates. And I think in a world where much of our discussion around politics has moved online, it's important to protect a lot of speech, including speech from people that we totally disagree with. Or maybe we think are even acting in bad faith. But at the same time ...

  • Facebook bans Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan for hate speech

    Facebook bans Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan for hate speech

    May 02, 2019 07:26 PM EST

    The company said Thursday that it has also banned right-wing leaders Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, along with Jones' site, Infowars.

  • Scientists get one step closer to decoding thoughts into speech

    Scientists get one step closer to decoding thoughts into speech

    Apr 25, 2019 10:07 PM EST

    ... who was not involved in the new study. He says the remaining challenges include determining whether using finer-grained analysis of brain activity will improve speech decoding; developing a device that can be implanted in the brain and can decode speech in real time; and extending the benefits to people ...

  • Seychelles president’s underwater speech: Protect our oceans

    Seychelles president’s underwater speech: Protect our oceans

    Apr 14, 2019 02:43 PM EST

    ... see the incredible wildlife that needs our protection, and the consequences of damaging this huge ecosystem that has existed for millennia,” Faure said in his speech. “Over the years, we have created these problems. We can solve them.” Currently, only about 5% of the world’s oceans are protected. Countries ...

  • Facebook extends ban on hate speech to 'white nationalists'

    Facebook extends ban on hate speech to 'white nationalists'

    Mar 27, 2019 05:25 PM EST

    SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism. The company previously allowed such material even though it has long banned "white supremacists." The social network says it hadn't applied its ban to expressions of white ...

  • How Trump's executive order on campus free speech could affect colleges

    How Trump's executive order on campus free speech could affect colleges

    Mar 21, 2019 10:30 PM EST

    ... that the -- well, of course not. I mean, I teach at Harvard, and students are not categorizable like that. Certainly, in my seminars on free speech at Harvard, I would say there's no way to predict the political -- these are students. (CROSSTALK) Jerry Falwell Jr.: Students, a lot of ...

  • WATCH: Trump orders colleges to support free speech or lose funding

    WATCH: Trump orders colleges to support free speech or lose funding

    Mar 21, 2019 02:03 PM EST

    ... speech codes to define what you can say on campus." Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in the past has been critical of government answers. In a speech in Philadelphia last September, DeVos said the remedy "is not accomplished with government muscle. A solution won't come from defunding an institution of ...