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A staggering 40 percent of Americans could not name a single First Amendment right, according to a recent survey on the First Amendment.

More than half a million people have signed a petition calling for the right wing activist Tommy Robinson to be freed from jail, in just a few days.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte is reportedly tweaking his comprehensive immigration reform bill in a way that makes it more attractive to the several dairy-district GOP legislators who have signed the discharge petition.

A petition calling on the sports apparel brand Adidas to drop rap superstar Kanye West over comments he made about slavery has reached more than 4,500 signatures.

A petition calling for a boycott of ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has surpassed 150,000 signatures after he dedicated a segment of his show to mocking First Lady Melania Trump’s Slovenian accent.

First Lady Melania Trump rocked gold embroidered pumps for a Saturday night date with President Trump at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., ignoring the fallout from late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s personal attacks.

Jimmy Kimmel issued a sarcasm-laden statement on Sunday saying that while his war of words with Fox News host Sean Hannity was “fun,” he’s sorry for offending LGBT people, not for mocking Melania Trump accent.

A petition to boycott ABC’s late-night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel has reached more than 50,000 signatures after the Live host dedicated a segment of his show on Monday to mock First Lady Melania Trump and her accent. 

A petition is urging Disney-owned Marvel Studios to invest 25 percent of the profits from its upcoming superhero epic ‘Black Panther’ to the black community.

A UC San Diego student’s petition demanding the school kill a class that studies Woody Allen’s films has gained 9,600 signatures so far.

Michael Moore has called on his social media followers to sign a petition begun by billionaire Democratic Party mega-donor Tom Steyer to urge the U.S. Congress to impeach President Donald Trump.

A Utah man launched a petition Friday to change the mascot of a newly-constructed high school because he thinks the name would invite dirty jokes.

Sexual misconduct allegations against A-list Hollywood director Bryan Singer have resurfaced in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein fallout. On Monday, a petition was launched calling for calling for the removal of Singer’s name from the school’s Division of Cinema and Media Studies.

More than 70,000 people have signed a petition calling for a statue of Ray Lewis that sits outside M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, to be removed after the player knelt during the national anthem.

A billboard in California displaying the word “impeach” next to President Trump’s face is still standing despite claims that the billboard had been removed.

Hundreds of ‘Wonder Woman’ fans have signed a petition urging the filmmakers behind this summer’s blockbuster hit to write what they say is superhero Diana Prince’s obvious bisexuality into the script for the upcoming sequel.

Fans of pop star Britney Spears have launched a petition to replace Confederate monuments in New Orleans with statues in the likeness of the Louisiana-born singer.

A White House petition requesting that President Trump’s administration label Antifa as a terrorist organization reached more than 180,000 signatures, surpassing the 100,000 needed for a response from the White House.

A White House petition created Thursday is calling on President Trump to officially recognize the radical left-wing Antifa movement as a terrorist organization.

Supporters of a campaign to persuade Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg to run for leader of the Conservative Party are preparing to deliver a petition to the MP next week.

Cable network CMT is reportedly exploring a revival of Tim Allen-starring sitcom Last Man Standing one month after the highly-rated show was cancelled by ABC.

An elite New York City high school has denied requests by Muslim students to change the date of prom so it would not conflict with the Muslim observance of Ramadan.

More than a quarter-million people have put their names to a petition demanding ABC bring back the highly-rated conservative sitcom Last Man Standing.

Friday will mark a Cinco de Mayo celebration for many Americans, but for fans of Michael Savage, the fifth of May is the anniversary of a darker event — the banning of Savage from the United Kingdom.

MPs are set to debate whether to abolish the TV licence fee, used to subsidise the BBC, after a petition calling for it to be axed passed the 100,000 signatures mark.

A petition demanding U.S. President Donald J. Trump is invited to the UK for an official state visit has passed 100,000 signatures, the number at which it will be considered for debate in Parliament.

a Downing Street source telling the BBC that the Prime Minister would not “undo everything” she achieved during her visit to the U.S. for the sake of making a “gesture”.

A member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has quit the esteemed singing company over its scheduled performance at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington DC in January.

Three Bay Area residents say they have collected over 1,000 signatures from local artists and have penned a letter calling on Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf to stop landlords from evicting residents of warehouses similar to the “Ghost Ship” where 36 people perished in a deadly blaze earlier this month.

Some of Hillary Clinton’s top celebrity supporters are pulling out all the stops in one final attempt to change the results of Tuesday night’s presidential election, adding their names to and promoting a petition calling for electors in the Electoral College to go against state voters’ wishes to make the Democratic candidate president.

An online petition has been created to challenge the Electoral College and declare Hillary Clinton president of the United States on December 19th.

A collective of environmental conservation groups are pushing Washington to list the lesser prairie chicken as an endangered species, which could negatively impact local energy production and farmers.

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) has launched an online petition to force the Republican Party to submit presidential nominee Donald Trump to a psychiatric examination.

Fans of DC Comics films have flocked to a petition to shut down ratings aggregator Rotten Tomatoes over the site’s allegedly poor treatment of films like Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and this weekend’s Suicide Squad.

More than 1000 people have signed a petition calling for UKIP MP Douglas Carswell to “resign from UKIP”, accusing him of “destroying the party by divide and rule” and “fighting against almost everything UKIP stands for”.