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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.

“So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit defended Louisiana State University’s decision to fire a professor for using profane language in the classroom.

Graffiti allegedly linked to a white power movement was discovered at the site of a fire that destroyed parts of a Tennessee nonprofit that promotes social justice.

Two students at the University of Arizona have been charged with misdemeanors after harassing Border Patrol agents at a career fair last month. The students took videos of themselves heckling the agents by calling them “KKK” and chanting “murder patrol” while they followed them to their vehicles. The Border Patrol agents were on campus speak to criminal justice majors at a career fair.

UCLA was sued on Wednesday for failing to disclose information in response to a public records request involving the disruption of Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin’s speech on campus last year.

Republican Congressman Phil Roe from Tennessee is fighting to end “free speech zones,” which restricts political activism to certain areas on college campuses.

Kentucky lawmakers recently passed legislation that is designed to protect free speech on public university campuses in the state.

A fire destroyed nearly everything inside West Virginia church except for a cross and several bibles left untouched by the flames.

Northern Arizona University, a massive public university in Flagstaff, Arizona, recently adopted a broad policy that will protect expression rights for students, joining all of the public universities in the state in taking a strong stand on free expression.

Internal policies at Alabama A&M University state that insulting remarks or any “verbal comment” about a person’s age could constitute harassment.

A Missouri prison nurse fatally poisoned her husband with antifreeze and set their home ablaze to hide the evidence as part of a plan to marry a convicted killer serving a life sentence in prison, police said.

A man’s clothes caught fire shortly after he was tasered outside a Philadelphia restaurant Friday evening, according to a video posted to Twitter on Saturday.