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An official at the University of Maryland told conservative activists that he would call the police and report them for “trespassing” if they did not “pack up” and leave the public university grounds. The incident was preceded by a bizarre moment in which a woman thought to be a university staff member approached the activists to argue that “freedom of speech” is a “government-given” right, rather than a God-given right.

Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi, is facing a lawsuit after threatening students with arrest for exercising their First Amendment rights on campus, adding that the students should have been “smarter than that.”

A suspect was caught on video as he set fire to an American flag that flew from a neighbor’s porch last week in Orlando, Florida.

Dive boat owners say they should not be held financially responsible to the families of the victims who died during the California boat fire that occurred Monday. 

A Greyhound bus caught fire on I-95 in Baltimore County, Maryland, on Tuesday morning, according to reports.

A New Jersey woman allegedly torched a man’s house after he invited her over for late-night sex and fell asleep before she came to see him.

New School professor Laurie Sheck, who has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize in poetry, faced an investigation this year over her use of the “n-word” during a lesson on black author James Baldwin. She used the word during a discussion of Baldwin’s own use of the word. Ultimately the New School decided that she did not violate the college’s policy on discrimination.

In the Sunday night daycare fire that killed five Erie, Pennsylvania, children, Erie resident Shevona Overton lost four.

Russian Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Dmitry Bulgakov said on Tuesday that a string of spectacular explosions at the Kamenka ammunition depot in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region was probably the result of “human error,” but added that “investigative authorities and prosecutors will tell for sure.”

Tom Lindsay, the former Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President George W. Bush, hit back this week against claims by Columbia University’s president about the state of free speech on American campuses.

First Coast Technical College is defending its controversial decision to suspend a student over photos she posted to Facebook of her at a gun range.

Baltimore law enforcement has launched an investigation into the cause of 11 fires that broke out in the city’s Edmondson Village neighborhood early Morning morning.

A 35-year-old man with extensive experience in roofing and construction used his skills to scale a 19-story building to rescue his mother trapped in a building during a fire.

A team of firefighters in Buffalo, New York, put aside their suits and helmets on Sunday to throw a birthday party for a six-year-old boy whose house burnt down just days before.

A fire broke out Thursday at a gas pipeline near a thermal power plant on the outskirts of Moscow, killing one person and injuring 13 others.

An eight-month-old infant died and five other children were injured in a fire at their house early Sunday while their parents were out at a nightclub, police said.

A 20-year-old uncle is suffering from second-to-third degree burns in the hospital after he ran into his burning home in Aberdeen, Washington, to save his niece.

At least 45,000 barrels of Jim Beam bourbon were destroyed in a massive warehouse fire in Kentucky on Tuesday night.

George Washington University Law School Professor John F. Banzhaf argued last week that a recent Supreme Court decision on the First Amendment could kill campus free speech codes.

MSNBC host and Democrat presidential debate moderator Rachel Maddow pressed Washington Gov. Jay Inslee about his putting climate change as his top priority if he is elected president.

Doane University suspended a librarian earlier this year over her decision to highlight the university’s history of blackface incidents.

A new bill moving forward in the Texas legislature could possibly criminalize sex jokes on campus, according to FIRE. The organization devoted to free speech on campus also expects a flood of “unmeritorious complaints” to Title IX offices at universities in the state.

A group of French Republican politicians have sounded a “state of emergency” on 75 Paris Churches, each of which face a potential Notre Dame level catastrophic event if left without urgent remedial work, a statement after the world-famous Medieval cathedral suffered a catastrophic fire in April.

The director of Brazil’s National Museum flew to Europe on Tuesday for a two-week fundraising trip aimed at restoring the building after it was destroyed by a devastating fire last September.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling on the president of Williams College to grant club status to a student group that was denied recognition by the school’s student government last month due to having pro-Israel viewpoints.

The American Zinc Products plant forced evacuation within a half-mile as a fire poured deadly acid into the surrounding air.

The Iglesia Pentecostal Church de Bethlehem in Pennsylvania burned for the second time on Thursday — after the first was determined arson.

The morning after a fire ravaged Notre Dame cathedral at the beginning of Holy Week, Parisians have embraced the period of faith and resurrection and vow to rebuild.

Social media has seen a variety of reactions following the tragic fire at Paris’ iconic Notre-Dame cathedral Monday, but some users chose to mock and laugh at those expressing sorrow.

The faithful of Paris sung hymns as France’s Notre Dame Cathedral was engulfed in flames.