• Pro-Israel policy conference nervously awaits Trump speech

    Pro-Israel policy conference nervously awaits Trump speech

    Mar 21, 2016 12:32 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Watch full speech: Romney calls Trump a 'phony'

    Watch full speech: Romney calls Trump a 'phony'

    Mar 03, 2016 01:09 PM EDT

    Watch Mitt Romney's full speech at the University of Utah on Thursday. SALT LAKE CITY — Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Thursday that the prospects for a safe future are "greatly diminished" if Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee for president. Speaking at the University of Utah, Romney ...

  • The secret to Trump's stump speech success

    The secret to Trump's stump speech success

    Mar 01, 2016 05:49 PM EDT

    ... trade deficit. “We’re gonna start winning. We’re not gonna lose. We’re going to win. ” he said. At this point in his stump speech, which was indistinguishable from dozens of speeches this reporter has covered over the past several months, Trump turned his focus to his wealth. He ...

  • Speeches earning Clinton millions remain allusive to voters

    Speeches earning Clinton millions remain allusive to voters

    Feb 07, 2016 02:52 AM EDT

    ... again Friday after her promise to review the issue. Last month, she laughed and turned away when a reporter specifically asked for transcripts of her speeches to Goldman Sachs. "I don't think voters are interested in the transcripts of her speeches," Joel Benenson, Clinton's pollster, told reporters Friday ...

  • Speeches that earned Clinton millions remain a mystery

    Speeches that earned Clinton millions remain a mystery

    Feb 05, 2016 11:36 PM EDT

    ... on Friday after her promise to review the issue. Last month, she laughed and turned away when a blogger specifically asked for transcripts of her speeches to Goldman Sachs. "I don't think voters are interested in the transcripts of her speeches," Joel Benenson, Clinton's pollster, told reporters Friday ...

  • President Reagan's speech to a nation reeling after Challenger disaster

    President Reagan's speech to a nation reeling after Challenger disaster

    Jan 28, 2016 05:51 PM EDT

    ... focusing on the disaster. It would be months before NASA scientists would learn the below-freezing temperatures compromised the rockets' rubber O-rings. Discussing her speech last year, Noonan said Reagan needed "to do a speech that is aimed at those who are 8 years old, and those who are ...

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    FULL SPEECH: Gov. Nikki Haley's Republican response to 2016 State of the Union

    Jan 13, 2016 03:29 AM EDT

    Giving the Republican response to the 2016 State of the Union, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley looked past President Obama's record to offer her vision of "a brighter American future" if a Republican were to hold the White House. Haley acknowledged Americans' frustration with government, and urged against the "siren call" of angry rhetoric.

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    FULL SPEECH: President Obama's 2016 State of the Union Address

    Jan 13, 2016 02:25 AM EDT

    President Obama delivered his final State of the Union Address to the nation, offering some proposals for his last year in office and an assessment of his tenure, as well as looking ahead to America's future

  • How federal law draws a line between free speech and hate crimes

    How federal law draws a line between free speech and hate crimes

    Dec 31, 2015 07:15 PM EDT

    ... speech protections and permits membership in organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, that espouse hateful ideologies. But while the Constitution gives latitude to hate speech and offensive rhetoric, court decisions in the last century have carved out notable — though narrow — exceptions to free speech guarantees and authorized prosecution for ...

  • Protesters disrupt Donald Trump speech at NYC luncheon

    Protesters disrupt Donald Trump speech at NYC luncheon

    Dec 11, 2015 08:19 PM EDT

    ... said Martha Acklesberg, 69, a member of the group Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, who along with Judith Plaskow, 68, paid to hear Trump speech and then disrupted it in protest. Trump, said Acklesberg, briefly stopped his speech during their protests and quipped, "when you're the front runner ...