• 'Hamilton' creator says 'immigrants get the job done' in UPenn graduation speech

    'Hamilton' creator says 'immigrants get the job done' in UPenn graduation speech

    May 16, 2016 07:06 PM EST

    Lin-Manuel Miranda says even as politics traffics in "anti-immigrant rhetoric," there is a musical "reminding us that a broke orphan immigrant from the West Indies built our financial system."

  • Watch: Obama's full speech to graduates at Howard University

    Watch: Obama's full speech to graduates at Howard University

    May 07, 2016 05:04 PM EST

    ... and applause from the audience at the historically black college in the nation's capital. Obama then said "that's a different discussion for another speech." The 54-year-old president tells graduates that most of them were just starting high school when he was first elected to the White ...

  • Protesters get rowdy at California hotel before Trump speech

    Protesters get rowdy at California hotel before Trump speech

    Apr 29, 2016 12:57 PM EST

    COSTA MESA, Calif. — Raucous protesters and supporters of Donald Trump violently confronted each other in California leading to some 20 arrests as the Republican presidential contender brought his campaign to conservative Orange County after sweeping the Northeast GOP primaries.

  • Analyzing Trump’s tough-talking foreign policy speech

    Analyzing Trump’s tough-talking foreign policy speech

    Apr 27, 2016 11:40 PM EST

    about that. There was very little in the speech about Chinese assertiveness in East Asia. And I think, Judy, the thing that bothered me the most about this speech, the lack of humility. Donald Trump castigated 35 years of American foreign policy. That includes George H.W. Bush. It includes ...

  • Supreme Court sides with police officer in free speech case

    Supreme Court sides with police officer in free speech case

    Apr 26, 2016 04:06 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a New Jersey police officer who was demoted after his boss mistakenly believed he was involved in a political campaign can still bring a lawsuit alleging a violation of free speech rights. The 6-2 ruling said Jeffrey Heffernan could file a First ...

  • How the transgender community finds a voice through speech therapy

    How the transgender community finds a voice through speech therapy

    Mar 30, 2016 08:27 PM EST

    For Caroline Temmermand, who spent 2.5 years doing speech therapy at George Washington University’s transgender voice clinic, changing her voice was a question of personal comfort. “After [my family] found out I was transgender, and I started presenting as the person I am, I wanted them to feel ...

  • With all Cuba watching, Obama offers hopeful possibilities in speech

    With all Cuba watching, Obama offers hopeful possibilities in speech

    Mar 22, 2016 11:47 PM EST

    ... including a major address to the Cuban people. John Yang reports. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I believe in the Cuban people. JOHN YANG: In the final speech of his historic visit, President Obama laid out a future of possibilities, but no guarantees. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I have come here to bury ...

  • Meet El Sexto, the performance artist pushing for free speech in Cuba

    Meet El Sexto, the performance artist pushing for free speech in Cuba

    Mar 22, 2016 08:25 PM EST

    ... for his strong belief in freedom of expression for all Cubans. Here are a few times Maldonado has challenged Cuba on the issue of free speech: 1. Painted graffiti on public walls in Havana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7zOxH1-iYw Some of Maldonado's earliest projects began with ...

  • Trump calls Iran 'biggest sponsor of terrorism' in AIPAC speech

    Trump calls Iran 'biggest sponsor of terrorism' in AIPAC speech

    Mar 21, 2016 11:31 PM EST

    Video by PBS NewsHour WASHINGTON — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is focusing on Iran as he delivers a highly-anticipated foreign policy speech in Washington. Trump tells a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: "Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism around the world." Trump has been ...

  • Pro-Israel policy conference nervously awaits Trump speech

    Pro-Israel policy conference nervously awaits Trump speech

    Mar 21, 2016 12:32 PM EST

    ... other communities, comparisons of Trump to Hitler and Mussolini have clouded their impressions. Some have announced they will protest Trump, if not by disrupting his speech, by walking out. Others have said the speech will be an important opportunity to hear Trump explain his views. The debate has played out ...