■ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has implemented new press restrictions at the Pentagon, NPR reported.
■ Press-freedom organizations have launched a network to give legal assistance, resources, and training to U.S. journalists and newsrooms.
Unprotected bots. In a trial over the cause of a teen’s death, a judge ruled against an argument that AI chatbots have free-speech rights.
■ Two major daily newspapers published summer reading lists that were filled with AI-generated imaginary book titles.
■ In an era of banned books, a wave of new shop owners has embraced independent bookselling, the Associated Press reported.
■ A patron-led challenge over the removal of books from a Texas library was struck down by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.■ A Colorado couple was found guilty in a cross-burning hoax that was meant to generate voter sympathy for a mayoral candidate.
Prez vs. prez. Tensions with President Trump, clashes over editorial principles with Paramount, led to the resignation of CBS News president Wendy McMahon.
■ In case you missed it, the publisher of The New York Times penned an opinion piece declaring that a free people need a free press.
■ School newspapers from opposite ends of the country teamed up to heal from wildfires by getting individual stories out.
■ Archives from punk rock fanzine Maximum Rocknroll have been donated to the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University.
■ An ad campaign against an airline that operates flights for deportees has set off a free-speech legal fight.
Unprotected bots. In a trial over the cause of a teen’s death, a judge ruled against an argument that AI chatbots have free-speech rights.
■ Two major daily newspapers published summer reading lists that were filled with AI-generated imaginary book titles.
■ In an era of banned books, a wave of new shop owners has embraced independent bookselling, the Associated Press reported.
■ A patron-led challenge over the removal of books from a Texas library was struck down by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Art speech. After three years of legal wrangling, a U.S. District judge ruled that a New Hampshire bakery’s rooftop mural is a constitutional display.
■ A rare tie vote in the U.S. Supreme Court has ended Oklahoma’s efforts to create the nation’s first religious charter school.
■ A rare tie vote in the U.S. Supreme Court has ended Oklahoma’s efforts to create the nation’s first religious charter school.
■ Texas is one step closer to having the Ten Commandments displayed in all public-school classrooms.
■ Court justices ordered the Maine Legislature to restore the votes of a representative who was censured for identifying a transgender teen athlete online.
■ A new Tennessee law is a deliberate threat to the First Amendment, a senior legal fellow at Vanderbilt University contended in a Tennessee Lookout commentary.
Breaking news… literally. Nine months pregnant, a local TV news anchor did the morning newscast after labor contractions began and her water broke.
■ President Trump again blasted Harvard University over international students just days after a federal judge declared his administration’s ban on enrolling foreign students was unconstitutional.
■ The Trump administration cannot fight censorship with censorship, declared the executive vice president of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression).
■ President Trump again blasted Harvard University over international students just days after a federal judge declared his administration’s ban on enrolling foreign students was unconstitutional.
■ The Trump administration cannot fight censorship with censorship, declared the executive vice president of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression).
■ Columbia University’s acting president heard boos and shouts of “Free Mahmoud” during her commencement speech.
■ A Nevada school district has been sued by the ACLU for failing to adhere to a law allowing students to wear certain regalia at graduation ceremonies.
■ In case you missed it, the publisher of The New York Times penned an opinion piece declaring that a free people need a free press.
■ School newspapers from opposite ends of the country teamed up to heal from wildfires by getting individual stories out.
■ Archives from punk rock fanzine Maximum Rocknroll have been donated to the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University.
