House passes antisemitism bill over complaints from First Amendment advocates Critics call the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which has some Democratic support, an effort to silence criticism of Israel and an affront to the First Amendment. 05/1/2024 - 9:07 am | View Link
What the First Amendment Means for Campus Protests Encampments? Occupying buildings? Demonstrators cite their right to free expression, but the issues are thorny. 05/1/2024 - 5:22 am | View Link
Americans' privacy rights find an origin in the U.S. Constitution's Third Amendment Opinion: The Third Amendment emerged out of American colonists' grievances against the British Crown for forcing them to quarter soldiers. 05/1/2024 - 12:07 am | View Link
Driver can’t make Hawaii issue a license plate expressing ‘profane’ opposition to Black Lives Matter: Judge A federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed by a vocal critic of Black Lives Matter challenging the city of Honolulu's refusal to allow him to register a car with a vanity plate reading "FCKBLM." The ... 04/30/2024 - 10:31 am | View Link
Supreme Court to debate 'sleeper' case that could affect Trump federal prosecution Once inside, petitioner ran toward a line of police officers with another rioter while yelling" a profanity ... political speech that the First Amendment protects." But the government says ... 04/15/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.