A drone view shows the scene where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University event, in Orem

Charlie Kirk’s Open-Air Debates Made Him a Draw on College Campuses. They Also Made Him Vulnerable

Kirk’s open and engaging approach veered from the well-worn tracks of provocateurs who rile audiences in campus lecture halls.

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Florida holds special elections to fill US House seats emptied by Trump Cabinet pick

Appeals Court Upholds Florida Law Barring Noncitizens From Gathering Voter Petitions

The law sets new limits on how many petitions Florida voters can collect in their effort to get a constitutional amendment on the state’s ballot.

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Signage is seen outside of FDA headquarters in White Oak, Maryland

Trump’s Plan for a Drug Advertising Crackdown Faces Many Hurdles

Banning all pharmaceutical ads from TV would have almost certainly been struck down by federal judges, who have long accepted advertising as a First Amendment-protected form of speech.

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Far-right radio host Alex Jones speaks at an event held by the national conservative political movement, 'Turning Point' in Detroit

Alex Jones Asks Supreme Court To Hear Appeal of $1.4 Billion Sandy Hook Judgment

Jones' lawyers say that public figures such as the Sandy Hook families have to prove their defamation claims against journalists such as Jones.

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Rainbow flags fly across the street from the Stonewall Inn in New York

Detroit-Area City Can Ban LGBTQ+ Pride Flags on Public Property, Judge Says

Critics of the new policy said Hamtramck was violating free speech. But the judge said the city’s policy was OK because it bans all private flags not just some.

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James Madison
[The] right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
-James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, 1800
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