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  • WATCH: Vance discusses free speech, Ukraine war at Munich Leaders Meeting

    WATCH: Vance discusses free speech, Ukraine war at Munich Leaders Meeting

    May 07, 2025 03:53 PM EDT

    ... talk at the conference event followed his appearance at the organization's February summit in Germany, where he ruffled feathers for his comments that free speech is “in retreat” across Europe. Vance addressed that Wednesday and said his comments applied to the U.S. under Democratic President Joe Biden’s ...

  • How Trump's college crackdown is raising concerns about free speech and academic freedom

    How Trump's college crackdown is raising concerns about free speech and academic freedom

    May 06, 2025 10:20 PM EDT

    ... if that's what needs to be done, that's what needs to be done.Daniel Wolf-Shneider, Columbia University Student: The suppression of political speech and the sort of dismantlement of campus free speech and activism isn't making Jewish students any safer. Jeffrey Brown: But other Jewish students ...

  • Pence says Constitution is 'what makes us one people' in acceptance speech for Profile in Courage Award

    Pence says Constitution is 'what makes us one people' in acceptance speech for Profile in Courage Award

    May 05, 2025 09:37 PM EDT

    ... America.” “Jan. 6 was a tragic day but it became a triumph of freedom. History will record that our institutions held,” he said in his speech. “Leaders in both chambers, in both political parties reconvened the very same day and finished democracy's work under the Constitution.” JFK’s daughter ...

  • WATCH: Harris accuses Trump of 'wholesale abandonment' of American ideals in post-election speech

    WATCH: Harris accuses Trump of 'wholesale abandonment' of American ideals in post-election speech

    May 01, 2025 03:31 PM EDT

    ... sorts. Harris lives in Los Angeles but she is from the San Francisco Bay Area, where her political career is rooted. For her first major speech since the election, she chose familiar terrain and a friendly, in some ways familial, crowd. Lisa Gotbhi, a health care executive in San Francisco ...

  • WATCH: Biden says Trump has 'taken a hatchet' to Social Security in first post-presidency speech

    WATCH: Biden says Trump has 'taken a hatchet' to Social Security in first post-presidency speech

    Apr 15, 2025 02:36 PM EDT

    The 82-year-old Democrat, who has largely avoided speaking publicly since leaving the White House in January, delivered his pointed message during a speech Tuesday at the national conference of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in Chicago.

  • WATCH: Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech protesting Trump

    WATCH: Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech protesting Trump

    Apr 01, 2025 02:02 PM EDT

    ... the light,’” Booker said. "No, we got civil rights because people marched for it, sweat for it and John Lewis bled for it." Booker's speech was not a filibuster, which is a speech meant to halt the advance of a specific piece of legislation. Instead, Booker's performance was ...

  • 'Murder the Truth' examines growing effort to silence journalists and curtail free speech

    'Murder the Truth' examines growing effort to silence journalists and curtail free speech

    Mar 17, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    ... much safer, easier, simpler route is what a lot of people do, which is they just back down. And for people who believe in free speech and being able to speak up and say what you believe, especially about people or groups that have power in our society, that's ...

  • Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech but critics say his actions threaten it

    Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech but critics say his actions threaten it

    Mar 12, 2025 06:20 PM EDT

    ... controversial clients, sometimes against our government,” Jaffer said. “The Trump administration has made it clear it will retaliate against lawyers.” Jaffer said attacks on free speech and association are intended to chill dissent by convincing people in the opposition that they could become targets. “All of us are able to ...

  • News Wrap: House censures Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's speech

    News Wrap: House censures Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's speech

    Mar 06, 2025 11:45 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Thursday, the House voted to censure Democrat Rep. Al Green for disrupting President Trump's address to Congress with 10 Democrats joining Republican members in passing the resolution, a pair of fighter jets in South Korea accidentally dropped eight bombs on a civilian area, a hospitalized Pope Francis released an audio broadcast...

  • WATCH: House censures Rep. Al Green for disruption during Trump speech

    WATCH: House censures Rep. Al Green for disruption during Trump speech

    Mar 06, 2025 03:04 PM EDT

    ... speech up after he handed it to her following his address. "Everybody has to make their expression of how they see things. I think we should keep our focus on the president's speech," Pelosi said. Associated Press writers Matt Brown, Lisa Mascaro and Leah Askarinam contributed to this report.

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