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Video: Newspaper Theft at UMass Amherst While Police Officer Watches
Thieves at UMass Amherst grab scores of copies of conservative student newspaper The Minuteman out of a man's hands while a police officer watches and does nothing. .
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FIREamicus brief: First Amendment bars using schoolkid standards to silence parents' speech
School officials ousted parents for protesting a trans athlete by wearing pink XX wristbands at a soccer game. FIREexplains how the court's decision got things wrong.
Trump's $16M win over '60 Minutes' edit sends chilling message to journalists everywhere
Trump's $16M win over a "60 Minutes" edit sends a chilling message to journalists everywhere. ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s Bob Corn-Revere calls it what it is: the FCC playing politics.
To speak or not to speak: Universities face the Kalven question
As political pressure mounts, Dinah Megibow-Taylor explores whether recent institutional statements defend academic freedom — or quietly erode it.
FIREstatement on Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton upholding age verification for adult content
Today, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold Texas's age-verification law for sites featuring adult content, effectively reversing decades of Supreme Court precedent that protects the free speech rights of adults to access information without jumping over government age-verification hurdles.