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Apr 18 2024
Opinion
Free Speech Isn’t a Barrier to Regulating Social Media. Profits Are.
You can’t use a mega-sound system to hold a political rally in front of a hospital in the middle of the night. You can’t pack a theater so full of people that no one can reach the fire exits without being trampled. In the physical world, these kinds of noise control and fire safety regulations uneventfully coexist with our First Amendment free speech and free assembly rights. They’re accepted
PoliticoAug 16 2023
News
An affront to free press: Kansas newspaper raid is ‘egregious’ violation
For nearly 50 years, the National Press Foundation has worked to make good journalists better. We are hard-pressed to recall any violation of freedom of the press during our existence as egregious as that which occurred last Friday, August 11, when the offices of the Marion County Record in Kansas were raided by local law enforcement. In a dramatic reversal Wednesday, the Marion County
National Press FoundationApr 05 2024
News
Finnish Interior Minister Rantanen holds press conference in Helsinki
Colorado Springs GazetteAug 14 2023
News
Raid on Kansas Paper Shows Perilous State of Free Press
As the police raided Marion County Record editor and publisher Eric Meyer’s home August 11 (Committee to Protect Journalists, 8/12/23; AP, 8/13/23; New York Times, 8/13/23), his 98-year-old mother was aghast, watching the cops rummage through her things. “She was very upset, yelling about ‘Gestapo tactics’ and ‘where are all the good people?’” Meyer told FAIR. He said that after the raid she “
FAIRApr 17 2024
News
Coffee grinder, old tires spur creation of sulfur-free oil
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Using a coffee grinder, a freezer and a furnace, researchers have discovered a chemical synergy between scrap tires and polystyrene can be harnessed to create sulfur-free, light oil. Believed to be the first study
Phys.orgApr 17 2024
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Smoking Bans and ‘Smoke-Free’ Vapes: The Debate Over Tobacco’s Future
As rates of smoking decline worldwide, and some countries even try to ban it, tobacco companies have found other ways to make money by satisfying people’s hankering for nicotine, the addictive stimulant found in tobacco. Sales of “smoke-free” nicotine products are eating into those of cigarettes and other combustibles. Yet health officials are divided as to whether they should condone these
BloombergApr 11 2024
News
Omaha teacher accused of embezzling $76K from student press association fund
The next time you sit on a ski lift on the way to the top of a mountain, think of bananas and the Union Pacific Railroad. Credit them with the modern-day chairlift system used by ski resorts around the globe. Seventy-five years ago, Jim Curran, a structural engineer with U.P., came up with the idea of adapting a system used to load bunches of bananas onto boats into one to move people up steep
Lincoln Journal StarApr 17 2024
News
Free brats, mocktails headline Memorial Terrace reopening celebration Wednesday
With summer around the corner and temperatures in Madison rising, students and community members are heading back to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace. Memorial Union employees the chairs in early November for the winter season. But as of Wednesday morning, the famous green, orange and yellow Sunburst chairs are back on the lakeside. The Wisconsin Union will the
Daily CardinalApr 18 2024
News
A second creepy exchange emerges from Caitlin Clark press conference — and it involves her new coach
New video has surfaced of Indianapolis Star columnist Gregg Doyel being awkward in a second exchange during Caitlin Clark’s introductory Indiana Fever press conference on Wednesday after he was called out for cringeworthy comments. “You were just given the keys to that,” Doyel said to Indiana Fever coach Christie Sides, referring to Clark as “that.” “What are you going to do with it?” This
New York Post (News)