... GWEN IFILL: Two Supreme Court decisions today, one on purchasing firearms and the other involving political speech. Jeffrey Brown has that. JEFFREY BROWN: As it happens, both cases involve when the truth must be told. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that the federal government can enforce ...
... are saying that is important. Ambassador Pickering, did you hear an explanation? THOMAS PICKERING: I didn't hear an explanation, but this wasn't the speech for the deep explanation of Syrian policy. It was the speech to provide the United States and the rest of the world with a ...
... Democratic National Committee is not speech, Stevens argued in a rare appearance of a former justice in the Senate. "While money is used to finance speech, money is not speech. Speech is only one of the activities that are financed by campaign contributions and expenditures. Those financial activities should not ...
A new study concludes that dogs' brains contain a vocal region that functions similarly to the region located in the temporal lobe of human brains. In addition, the researchers found that vocal emotional cues activated a similarly located non-primary auditory region of the brain in both humans and canines.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon addressed the International Olympic Committee in Sochi Thursday, emphasizing the importance of supporting the gay community in the face of discrimination. “Many professional athletes, gay and straight, are speaking out against prejudice,” said Ban. “We must all raise our voices against attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex...
Seeking to energize his sluggish second term, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday night in his State of the Union address to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" necessary to narrow economic disparities between rich and poor. He unveiled an array of modest executive actions to increase the minimum wage for federal contract workers and make it...
... GWEN IFILL: Martin Luther King Jr. was 39 years old when he died, and during his years on earth, he gave famous and memorable speeches around the world that have been replayed hundreds of times. There is one, however, that, until recently, had not been heard in more than ...
... rights movement. He and his allies had launched an unsuccessful campaign to integrate the city of Albany, Georgia -- and in the three weeks before the speech, three black churches in Georgia had been burned to the ground. Having an audio recording of King's speech offers new perspective on his ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: Free speech and abortion rights clashed today at the Supreme Court. NewsHour correspondent Kwame Holman starts with some background. KWAME HOLMAN: The case grew out of complaints by anti-abortion demonstrators at this Planned Parenthood clinic in downtown Boston. MAN: If you look at that yellow line ...
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