A conservative professor at the University of New Mexico is facing a one-year unpaid suspension after he attempted to end an exchange of flirty emails with a graduate student. A VP for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) calls the investigation “one of the most egregious cases of university malfeasance” she has seen in her career.
Administrators at the University of Scranton are allowing the school’s student government to ban Turning Point USA (TPUSA) from campus. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling on the university to uphold its students’ First Amendment rights.
Ohio University has decided to rescind a social media ban regarding suspended student organizations after receiving a letter from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) warning the publicly-funded school that the ban does not uphold its students’ First Amendment rights.
A mother was arrested Sunday for allegedly tying up her toddler and placing a plastic bag on his head at their home in Santa Paula, California.
Santa Claus worked with volunteer firefighters in Connecticut to put out a house chimney fire during a parade on Saturday.
An Indiana teen’s quick actions saved his next-door neighbors from a house fire that could have been worse if he did not intervene sooner.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) responded to the recent protests at Binghamton University in New York, which has resulted in the cancellation of two events put on by conservative groups. According to FIRE, “it should take more than a bullhorn to override the First Amendment at Binghamton.”
The Boston Bruins are donating the proceeds gained from their 50/50 raffle to a fallen firefighter’s family.
Two police officers are being hailed as heroes after they pulled an unconscious woman from a burning vehicle in Farmville, Virginia.
Chinese state media published a graphic video on Monday showing a man doused in liquid and set on fire in Hong Kong, claiming — citing the Hong Kong police force — that protesters set him on fire for defending the Communist Party.
A husband and wife are being called heroes after rescuing a woman from inside her burning vehicle this week in Waller, Texas.
A Texas teenager ran into a burning house Monday evening to save his 11-year-old neighbor trapped inside.
A little boy is being hailed a hero after saving his family from a fire inside their home in Raven, Virginia, this week.
At least two homes in New Jersey are on fire after a plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Colonia, fire officials said.
California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) is investigating a photo showcasing an apparent “cowboys and (illegal) aliens” costume party held by students. Campus free speech advocate FIRE says the investigation should be dropped on First Amendment grounds.
A policy buried in the Furman University handbook claims that students can be punished for wearing offensive Halloween costumes.
A truck transporting 38,000 pounds of frozen bagels went up in flames on an Indiana highway on Sunday, causing the beloved breakfast food to be charred beyond repair.
It took 215 New York City Fire Department (FDNY) firefighters to quell a blaze in a Bronx apartment building on Friday evening.
Third-grade students at a Tennessee elementary school surprised one of their classmates with toys after he lost them in a fire that destroyed his family’s home two weeks ago.When Daniel Hunt’s third-grade classmates at Philadelphia Elementary School in Philadelphia, Tennessee,
Another set of Tesla-produced residential solar panels have reportedly caught fire on a home in Louisville, Colorado.
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.
