The act of one human speaking to a group has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. Chris Anderson, owner of TED and TED Talks, gives his Brief but Spectacular take on the power of ideas and how we communicate meaning to other people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent watchdog has cleared Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of wrongdoing when he gave a speech to a National Hockey League team owned by a campaign contributor. The Office of Special Counsel said Zinke's June 2017 speech to the Vegas Golden Knights did not violate the Hatch ...
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump violates the First Amendment when he blocks critics on Twitter for political speech, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan stopped short in her written decision of ordering Trump or a subordinate to stop the practice of blocking critics ...
Vice President Mike Pence delivered the keynote address today. Watch his remarks here.
While railing against California for its so-called sanctuary immigration policies, President Donald Trump referred to some people who cross the border illegally as "animals" — drawing a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders for the harsh rhetoric.
... of Arizona’s U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, which compelled the moderator to cede Goldwater the microphone during a televised roll call. He gave a speech that catapulted his national profile. “That brought out hardcore people across the country,” said then-organizer David Franke, who would later peel away from ...
... Hari Sreenivasan: But first, abortion and free speech collide at the Supreme Court today. William Brangham takes a look at arguments made before the nine justices this morning. William Brangham: The case before the court involves so-called crisis pregnancy centers -- these are clinics run by anti-abortion groups ...
... steal the momentum behind the effort to resolve the Dreamers' plight. "You see, these people are being deported," Pelosi said around hour six of her speech. "We can do something today to at least make whole the children." While she spoke, immigration activists joined liberals threatening political retribution against the ...
... the bench at a time when judges were white and male, she said. "No president ever returned to the not-so-good-old days," Ginsburg said. Ginsburg was one of five Supreme Court justices who skipped Trump's speech. The others were Justices Alito, Sotomayor, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Donald Trump once again touched on the growing tensions between his White House and North Korea, calling Kim Jong Un's regime “depraved” and saying its “reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland.” In a speech heavy ...
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