Tuckered out. Just days after settling a defamation lawsuit, the Fox News network has parted ways with popular and controversial host Tucker Carlson.
■ CNN has parted ways with morning-show anchor Don Lemon a few weeks after he made sexist comments on-air about GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley.
■ The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed the First Amendment protections for a conservative talk-radio host sued by a GOP candidate who lost a 2020 election.
■ Grammy-winning singer Lizzo brought a glittery protest of Tennessee’s anti-drag legislation to her Knoxville concert.
Half-baked. A mural atop a New Hampshire bakery is now a battle marker in a fight pitting free speech against a local zoning ordinance.
■ An Oklahoma county commissioner resigned after his remarks about lynching black people and killing journalists were caught on tape.
■ Elon Musk has promised free speech on Twitter, but he has failed on that promise regularly, declared journalist Brad Polumbo in a Newsweek opinion piece.
■ Greenpeace has prevailed in a lengthy defamation case brought by a Canadian logging company, a federal judge has ruled.
■ Cornell University’s president took aim at a student campaign to have ‘trigger warnings’ implemented on campus and shot the effort down.
■ States, not students, are on the wrong side of history when it comes to campus speech, declared Brown University president Christina Paxson in a New York Times guest editorial.
Unprotected blare. Drivers can and do use their car horns regularly, but all that honking is not free speech, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
■ Next term, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if the First Amendment stops government officials from blocking social media critics.
■ Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments in a religious discrimination case involving a devout mail carrier and the U.S. Postal Service, which asked him to work Sundays.
■ Minneapolis city officials unanimously agreed to drop noise restrictions and allow for Muslim calls to prayer at regular intervals, the first U.S. city to do so.
■ Minneapolis city officials unanimously agreed to drop noise restrictions and allow for Muslim calls to prayer at regular intervals, the first U.S. city to do so.
■ The Iowa Supreme Court rejected Gov. Kim Reynolds’ attempt to ignore or delay public-records requests from media organizations.
■ An investigative reporter has been hit with a restraining order after trying to interview Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers at her home.
■ Two North Carolina journalists have been convicted of trespassing after they reported on the clearing of a homelessness camp in a public park in 2021.
■ A study by PEN America has detailed the dramatic rise of book bans across the country, the majority being driven by the organized efforts of activists and legislators.
■ Virginia’s General Assembly rejected a Gov.
Glenn Youngkin proposal to make peaceful protests outside judges’ homes
illegal.
■ A Cookeville, Tenn., newspaper’s public-records lawsuit persuaded a regional medical authority to disclose the salaries of senior administrators.
■ Well-known Fox News employees were spared having to testify in court but there were key takeaways from the settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.
■ Well-known Fox News employees were spared having to testify in court but there were key takeaways from the settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.
