■ An Army veteran was arrested for burning an American flag near the White House, calling his actions a “direct challenge” to Trump’s executive order criminalizing flag burning.
■ Republicans attack symbolic speech because they know it is an effective protest tool, a British-American author asserted in a recent commentary.
■ A California baker in a long-running religious freedom case has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify at what point are her wedding cakes deserving of First Amendment protections.
Plate rattle. A Tennessee woman who had a personalized license plate revoked wants to drive home a point about free speech with the U.S. Supreme Court.
■ U.S. internet forums 4chan and Kiwi Farms have filed a lawsuit against a British media regulator arguing that its new online safety law violates Americans’ right to free speech.
■ Salt Lake City has changed its application process for special-event permits following a fatal shooting at a June “No Kings” protest.
■ Legislators in Michigan want to criminalize the obstruction of traffic as an act of protest.
On account of teens. OpenAI and Meta reportedly are adjusting how their chatbots respond to questions from teenagers who are exhibiting signs of distress.
■ The Walt Disney Co. will pay a $10 million fine to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that contends Disney allowed data collection on children.
■ Public schools in Conway, Ark., had to remove any display of the Ten Commandments, after a federal judge’s ruling.
■ A Kansas nurse is fighting accusations of practicing without a license after she gave speeches on the subject of dementia while on leave to care for her ailing husband.
Foxfire. Right-wing media network Newsmax has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News over “an exclusionary scheme” that suppresses competition.
■ A right-wing podcaster promoted falsehoods about Washington, D.C., crime and the Trump administration embraced him.
■ The Trump administration’s decision to block $2 billion in federal funding from Harvard University was unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.
■ A Boise State professor has examined the landmark Supreme Court ruling Times v Sullivan that makes it hard for public officials to sue the press. President Trump wants it gone.
■ A Texas curfew law that bans certain “expressive activities” on college campuses after dark is being challenged in court by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
Healthy topic. The news media has once again been forced to revisit protocols for reporting on the health of a sitting president.
■ Journalism groups have teamed up to launch a network designed to protect the rights of reporters.
■ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will cease its print edition at the end of the year, leaving the city as the largest in the country without a printed daily newspaper.
■ Emmy-winning correspondent and host of CNN’s “Newsmaker Saturday,” Charles Bierbauer, has died.
■ Mark Knoller, a veteran White House correspondent for CBS News, is remembered as hard-working and “prolific” following his death at age 73.
