Based on oral arguments last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems likely to hold that the First Amendment protects so-called conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors when it ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rode its biggest intraday comeback since April to close higher on Tuesday, but the S&P 500 stumbled late after trade tensions with China flared up again. The Dow rose ...

The Trump administration’s latest higher education initiative was pitched to America’s elite colleges and universities as a defense of free speech and intellectual rigor. In practice, it reads like a ...

A former Arkansas Department of Health official fired last month over reported social media comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has filed a lawsuit claiming the ...

This is my fifth year serving as a university president. Two aspects of the role are constant: the calls for free speech and expression, and the cries to sanction those who freely express their views.

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist ...

After a Hays County district judge ordered Texas State University to provide due process to a tenured professor fired for his speech at a socialism conference, the university doubled down on its ...

Whitestone: Venezuela’s “Iron Lady,” María Corina Machado, in hiding from the authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her heroic efforts to advance democracy in Venezuela ...

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“If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” Trump said in a campaign video from 2022 that included a list of specific steps his administration would take to restore and ...

In the traditional cascade modeling approach, automatic speech recognition (ASR) first produces a single text string, which is then passed to retrieval. Small transcription errors can change query ...