A group of students is defending UCLA Professor Gordon Klein, who was placed on leave after he denied a request to postpone a final exam for black students. Student activists at universities and colleges around the nation have demanded lenient grading and postponed exams for black students in response to the social unrest that has followed the death of George Floyd.
Worcester State University has reversed its previous decision to deny conservative students the ability to recruit members for a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) student group after calls by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) to end the school’s viewpoint discrimination.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a First Amendment advocacy group, penned a letter this week in defense of UCLA lecturer Gordon Klein, who was suspended from the university over his refusal to postpone an exam for black students.
Lousiana State University Professor Alyssa Johnson tweeted this week that she will prevent students from registering for her courses if they engage in “hate speech.” Johnson’s tweet has received scrutiny from several First Amendment advocacy organizations.
A massive fire consumed an Amazon Distribution Center in Redlands, California, early Friday morning.
After the Barberton VFW burned down on Tuesday, businesses and members of the community joined forces to bring it back.
At least Russian five patients on ventilators in an intensive care unit (ICU) because of the Chinese coronavirus were killed during a fire at a hospital in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, as the country continues to struggle with its response to the global pandemic.
The chancellor at Scottsdale Community College has apologized for “the uneven manner” in which it handled a professor that drew criticism on social media over test questions about Islamic terrorism. The community college initially criticized the professor and even suggested he be required to meet with an Islamic religious leader to review the contents of his course.
An Ohio woman is accused of calling 911 repeatedly to ask for assistance in extinguishing a fire in her crotch.
Jeff Klinzman will receive a $25,000 settlement from Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, over the college’s decision to terminate him last fall. Klinzman was terminated from his professorship after he revealed that he was a member of the far-left militant group Antifa, threatened to attack President Trump with a baseball bat, and fantasized about murdering Christians.
A California community is coming together to help a 71-year-old veteran who recently lost his home in a fire.
A whopping 77 percent of top colleges and universities funded by taxpayer dollars use a secret social media blacklist to censor the public, which the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) says is in violation of the First Amendment. The censored terms differ between universities but aren’t limited to controversial terms. For example, one New York community college censors words related to winter weather, like “snow” and “blizzard.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling on Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts, to grant club status to Turning Point USA, which was denied recognition by the school’s student government.
Officials in Ukraine asserted on Tuesday that a sprawling fire threatening to engulf the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, had finally come under control, but not before reaching Pripyat, the ghost town once built to house power plant workers.
The Foundation for Individual Right in Education (FIRE) says that it will monitor online college classes to ensure that academic freedom and freedom of expression are protected in virtual classrooms during the Chinese virus pandemic.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) published a press release about possible censorship by administrators at the University of California. Last week, the University of California cautioned students against the use of the term “Chinese virus.”
Destiny Waite allegedly set fire to her Hartford, Connecticut, apartment building on Monday using a “molotov cocktail” fueled by hand sanitizer.
Thousands of voting machines mysteriously went up in flames near Caracas, Venezuela this week, shortly before Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime planned a fraudulent election to regain control of the National Assembly, the country’s last democratically elected institution.
A woman is grateful she was not injured after her truck suddenly caught on fire Sunday in Deer Park, Texas.
Officials at the University of Albany (SUNY-Albany) tried to shut down an off-campus coronavirus-themed party after student activists argued that it was “racist.” Now, First Amendment advocacy groups are speaking out about the university’s responsibility to uphold free speech.
A woman who delivered her own baby in the emergency room on Monday wound up saving a truck driver’s life from a fire on Thursday, just days after she gave birth.
Three people worked together to rescue a truck driver after an explosion in Indianapolis on Thursday — and one of them had just given birth.
A man in Miami, Florida, placed his own life in danger to save a fellow driver whose car had gone up in flames Wednesday.
Bruce McConville told a judge he withdrew and then burnt over $1 million to keep it from going to his ex-wife.
A fire devastated a family’s home Sunday in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, but did not destroy everything inside it.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education released its list of the “worst colleges” for free speech. The annual list ranks the colleges that are the most willing to restrict the speech rights of its students and faculty.
LOS ANGELES, California — Firefighters from the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) rescued a man clinging to the side of a burning high-rise on Wednesday morning in the heart of West Los Angeles.
A 6-year-old girl is being hailed as a hero for saving the lives of her entire family after she awoke early Sunday and told her father about a fire that started in their New Jersey home.
Three people were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday after their ship went up in flames near Dauphin Island, Alabama.
A grandmother is out of the intensive care unit (ICU) after she saved her toddler grandson from a raging house fire January 5 in northeast D.C.
A man carried his mother down ten flights of stairs at a Philadelphia senior living facility after a fire broke out in the middle of the night, forcing residents to evacuate.
Long Island University Post (LIU Post) has fallen under scrutiny by free speech advocates for a school policy that apparently requires its students to have “respect for authority.” One LIU Post student had found himself under investigation by school officials for alleged possession and distribution of flyers deemed to be disrespectful.
Two brothers decided to donate their Christmas gifts to children displaced by a fire that broke out in a Minneapolis, Minnesota, building that houses the homeless on early Wednesday morning.
A free speech expert at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) said in an interview this week that millions of American students have their speech rights restricted on campus.
Three teens from Texas are being praised for their heroic actions after they rescued a cancer patient who was trapped inside a burning vehicle.
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.
