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Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Fair Use Still Protects Histories and Documentaries—Even Tiger King
- The Cybertiger Strikes Again! EFF's 8th Annual Tech Trivia Night
- Coalition to Calexico: Think Twice About Reapproving Border Surveillance Tower Next to a Public Park
- One (Busy) Day in the Life of EFF’s Activism Team
- Speaking Freely: Mohamed El Gohary
- Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
- Victory! FCC Closes Loopholes and Restores Net Neutrality
- The FBI is Playing Politics with Your Privacy
- No Country Should be Making Speech Rules for the World
- Free Speech Around the World | EFFector 36.6
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
- Massachusetts town stifles ‘disparaging’ comments at town hall meeting concerning phony overtime billing
- As free speech controversies mount, Indiana University faculty pitch vote of no confidence in university leadership
- FIRE urges Arizona governor to veto unconstitutional age verification legislation
- Want to hand out pamphlets on the town green? You’ll need a permit.
- FIRE urges Reps to vote NO on House resolution targeting university presidents
- Hey Nikki Haley: Hands off our anonymous online speech
- Myth-busting reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis
- Longtime biology professor says public college fired him for teaching X and Y chromosomes determine biological sex
- FIRE launches expanded 2023 Free Inquiry Grant program, offering $200,000 to support research on free speech
- VICTORY: UNC Chapel Hill rejects task force recommendation, shows why it’s a ‘green light’ school
- Learn with FIRE - Interactive Civil Liberties Learning Platform
Freedom Forum
- National Security and the First Amendment: When Can Rights Be Limited?
- Does the First Amendment Protect Anonymous Speech?
- Is Opinion Writing Protected by the First Amendment?
- Protesting on College Campuses: FAQs Answered
- Are License Plates Free Speech?
- Is the TikTok Law a Violation of the First Amendment?
- Can a Person’s Name Be Illegal? The How (and Why) Behind Banned Names
- Reporter’s Privilege: Protecting the Right to Know
- 15 of the Most Famous Banned Books in US History
- Horse Race Journalism: Finding Election Coverage Beyond the Polling Numbers
Good News Network
- Experimental Cancer Treatment Gives New Jersey Mom a Chance for A Second Baby: ‘I decided to go for it’
- 11 Acres of Plant-infused Green Roofs Go ‘Blue’–Capturing Rainwater in Flood-Prone Amsterdam
- Diligent Planning Sees Teen Accepted into 231 Schools, Winning $14.7 Million in Scholarships
- ‘Old age’ Starts Later Than Ever in the Eye of the Beholder and Beholden, Study Reveals
- Light Show in the Night Sky May Not be Over as Jaw-Dropping Aurora Borealis Gets New Blast
- Mom Designs Stunning Dress Made of 210 Fresh Flowers Combining Her Love of Art and Gardening
- Grad Student Trades Piano Performances for Housing at Senior Facility–Melting the Age Divide and Making Friends
- NASA Visualizes What it Would Be Like to Plunge into a Black Hole – WATCH
- Town Saves the Threatened Bum-Breathing Punk Turtle–a 9lb Wonder Found Only in the Mary River
- Teen Boy Translating Ancient Texts Turned a 4,000-Year-old Scribe From Egypt into Advice for Modern Age
PoliceOne Daily News
- BWC: Man drives tractor to college, rams Fla. police cruiser with officer still inside
- BWC: Kidnapping suspect fires on SWAT team during 2-day standoff
- FBI reports assaults on LEOs in the US reached a 10-year high in 2023
- BWC: Man throws rock at Calif. officers, runs at officer with knife before OIS
- Wyo. sheriff unveils recruitment billboard in Denver following Colo. PD's budget cuts
- Dash cam video: Man fleeing Ohio police gets out of car, fires at officers before fatal OIS
- Dash cam: Ohio officers pursue 14 and 16-year-old suspects recklessly driving stolen car
- BWC: Man fires at officers with 2 handguns, wounding 1 before OIS
- Suspect in fatal shooting of Ohio officer found dead after standoff
- Video: Calif. sheriff's office helicopter team saves 2 people clinging to boat after it capsizes
Statter911 – Dave Statter
- Video: 2-alarm house fire with collapse in Pennsylvania
- Caught on camera: Neighbors make rescue at N.J. house fire
- Early video as firehouse turned into a wine bar burns in Pennsylvania
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- NEW: Family wants answers a year after DC911 sent help to the wrong location
- Early video: Helmet-cam from Pennsylvania 2nd alarm
- Pre-arrival video shows house fire progression
- Video: House fire in Los Angeles
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- Video: Florida house fire with four firefighters hurt
EMS 1 Daily News
- Off-duty N.Y. paramedic saves girl at waterpark
- 4 burned in flash fire at N.H. hibachi restaurant
- Tenn. forensic transport service helps AMR improve response times
- Advocates, lawmakers rally at N.Y. state Capitol for EMS legislation
- Watch: Kan. worker rescued from trench collapse
- 8 dead, at least 40 injured in Fla. bus crash
- Wis. official presents plan to split fire, EMS into separate organizations
- Ohio woman fatally struck by ambulance
- 'I thought I was going to die': NYC EMT stabbed by patient in ambulance recalls terrifying incident
- Texas paramedics save aspiring firefighter in cardiac arrest during training
HeliHub EMS News
- Sikorsky awarded $32M HH-60W component contract
- Queensland AW139 fleet sets 30,000 hour record
- Milestone to lease two AW169s to Northern Rescue Helicopters
- ARCH 3 celebrates 20 years of service to South Central Illinois
- CareFlight bids with Helicopter Resources transform Tasmanian EMS
- LifeNet 3 Relocates to New Base in Orangeburg, SC
- HELP Appeal supports Midlands Air Ambulance Strensham Airbase
- Police Aviation News – May 2024 Edition
- Babcock extends contract with Midlands Air Ambulance
- Safran signs support contract with DRF Luftrettung
Emergency Management Magazine
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PublicSource
- Pa. House Democrats float $5.1 billion plan to lift state’s poorest schools
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- ‘Positive culture shock’ spells challenges and triumphs for Afghan teen students
- The FAFSA crisis casts cloud of uncertainty over Pittsburgh high schoolers, universities
- Shuman reopening delayed as operator countersues Allegheny County
- A Berkeley-born spirit, I found the deepest healing in a McKees Rocks circle
- Marching to a new beat: Pittsburgh’s Perry High is a rare enrollment winner
- Unhealthy housing may be subject of new Allegheny County committee
- Bill to expand Medicaid maternity care to cover doula services passes in Pa. House
- Will our weather worsen? What to do before, during and after the flood.
ProPublica
- Have You Experienced Homelessness? Do You Work With People Who Have? Tell Us About Encampment Removals.
- Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of Homeless People, Violating City Policy
- Help ProPublica and The Texas Tribune Report on School Board and Bond Elections in Your Community
- Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education
- She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
- Minnesota AG Sues Contract-for-Deed Seller Who Allegedly Targeted Muslim Community
- Even When a Cop Is Killed With an Illegally Purchased Weapon, the Gun Store’s Name Is Kept Secret
- Mississippi Lawmakers Move to Limit the Jail Detentions of People Awaiting Mental Health Treatment
- IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million
- Georgia Promised to Fix How Voter Challenges Are Handled. A New Law Could Make the Problem Worse.
State Impact – NPR
- Music is back at The Abbey Bar
- Could there be a reset of Chesapeake Bay restoration goals in 2025?
- Stay overnight on the Gettysburg Battlefield
- Pa. Supreme Court hears arguments over claim that Lancaster County is responsible for former DA’s bills
- Cell phone companies must pay $260k to Pa. in settlement over misleading advertising
- Penn State researchers help shine light on firefly populations in the eastern U.S.
- Pa. teacher shortage acute in special education, math and in underserved communities
- CNX plans $1.5B hydrogen fuels plant at Pittsburgh airport, but wants federal tax credit to build it
- UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital Earns Recognition for Advancing Black Maternal Health
- Evidence of insect activity in kitchen: Lebanon County restaurant inspections, May 13, 2024
The Intercept
- University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza
- Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin on Disrupting the U.S. War Machine
- Israel Wants Endless War Without the Politics. Biden’s Going Along for the Doomed Ride.
- This U.S. Attorney Resigned Amid an Ethics Investigation. Yet He Wound Up Overseeing Judges’ Ethics.
- Pentagon Compensated Zero Civilian Victims in 2022 — Despite Evidence That the U.S. Killed a Mom and Child in Somalia
- American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life
- The Silence Around Covid Vaccine Injuries
- Neither Candidate Has Much to Say About Israel. So Why Is AIPAC Pouring Money Into This Race?
- Israel “Likely” Used U.S.-Supplied Weapons in Violation of International Law. That’s OK, Though, State Department Says.
- October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division”
Krebs On Security
- Patch Tuesday, May 2024 Edition
- How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?
- U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group
- Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims
- Man Who Mass-Extorted Psychotherapy Patients Gets Six Years
- FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data
- Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme
- Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?
- Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak
- Why CISA is Warning CISOs About a Breach at Sisense
The Atlantic
- A Courtroom Parade of Trump’s Allies
- Photos From the 2024 Westminster Dog Show
- Google and OpenAI Are Battling for AI Supremacy
- The Eight Dynamics That Will Shape the Election
- China Has Gotten the Trade War It Deserves
- The Baby Reindeer Mess Was Inevitable
- The New Workplace Power Symbols
- A Gaza Protester Who’s Willing to Suffer
- The Art of Survival
- What Alice Munro Has Left Us
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Kathleen Parker
- If you have nothing nice to say, we can be friends
- If you have nothing nice to say, we can be friends
- Biden’s abortion push reeks of desperation
- Biden’s abortion push reeks of desperation
- Harvey Weinstein got lucky, but all roads lead to karma
- Harvey Weinstein got lucky, but all roads lead to karma
- Wyoming’s wolf-elimination policy leads to torture and darkness
- Wyoming’s wolf-elimination policy leads to torture and darkness
- Social media has become a grim fairy tale
- Social media has become a grim fairy tale
Public Discourse
- Building, Beauty, and Belonging
- Valuing the Craft of Beautiful Homemaking
- Graced Imagination: Recovering True Creativity in the Age of Authenticity
- It Takes a Swarm to Raise a Village
- What Makes America Family Unfriendly? A Q&A with Tim Carney
- A Common Good Framework in Bioethics and Policy
- Can AI Make Us Again a People of the Word?
- Student Protests and the Old Gods
- Exploring Our Ancient Faith
- Influential Women of the Church: An Interview with Bronwen McShea
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- On the Docket: Power resides in media coalitions in the fight for government transparency, accountability
- What is ‘national defense information’ anyway?
- Reporters Committee announces 2024 Freedom of the Press Award honorees
- Records provide insight into North Carolina environmental agency’s relationship with chemical company
- Expansion of Section 702 explicitly references press queries
- First Amendment lawsuit forces Allegheny County to revise jail policies
- US Supreme Court won’t review decision that ratchets up legal risk at protests
- House passes 2-year extension of Section 702
- UK High Court delays Assange appeal
- In crowded week for free speech, justices hear 3 First Amendment cases
Reason / The Volokh Conspiracy
- Brickbat: Never Low Prices
- Thursday Open Thread
- Louisiana SG Seeks Initial En Banc in 5th Circuit On Whether Section 2 of VRA Has Implied Private Right of Action
- No, Politicians Can't 'Fix' Prices—and That's OK
- Biden Administration Strips Federal Funding From Nonprofit at Center of COVID Lab Leak Controversy
- He Was Sentenced to a Decade in Prison for Having Unlicensed Weapons
- New Survey Finds Abortions Increased Slightly in 2023, Despite Widespread Bans
- Senate's AI Roadmap Released
- Congress is Preparing to Restore Quotas in College Admissions
- Don't Give Biden a Pass on Inflation. Don't Give Trump a Pass on COVID.
George F. Will
- Now on TikTok: The government doing its latest national security dance
- How, exactly, is TikTok a threat to national security?
- Trump, Biden and why the regal presidency perpetually disappoints voters
- Trump, Biden and why the regal presidency perpetually disappoints voters
- In defense of not voting
- In defense of not voting
- The 2024 electorate is more interesting than either candidate
- The 2024 electorate is more interesting than either candidate
- Voters, please think about the menace of nuclear annihilation
- Voters, please think about the menace of nuclear annihilation
National Motorists Association
- Car Companies’ Data Invasion Exposed – Prepare to Be Surprised
- Get Ready! USA And Germany to Implement Indefinite Weekend Driving Ban
- Exposing Collusion Between Big Government, Big Labor, And Volkswagen’s Unionization Efforts
- States Sue to BLOCK US Regulations on Vehicle Emissions
- Get Ready For A Massive Surge In Car Repossessions!
- The Shocking Truth Behind Rising Gas Prices
- Will Increased Insurance Costs Derail The EV Revolution?
- The Best Road Trip Route for National Park Enthusiasts
- Cyberattacks Ramp Up on Electric Vehicles at Charging Stations
- 5 Pivotal Questions to Answer Before Purchasing an EV
AAA Newsroom
- Nearly 44 Million Travelers Leaving Town for Unofficial Start of Summer
- For Pump Prices, No News is Good News
- When It Comes to Gas Prices, May Starts Off Meh
- New AAA Five Diamonds Shine with Style and Sophistication
- With May Approaching, Pump Prices Stick to the Slow Lane
- Fast on the Freeway Can Lead to Fury on the Side Streets
- Is the Recent Climb in the Price of Gas About to Stall?
- 3 in 5 Younger Travelers Go the Extra Mile for Live Events, AAA and Bread Financial Survey Finds
- Storm Clouds Abroad Have Gas Prices on Edge
- 2024 AAA Car Guide – EVs Reign Supreme
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