■ The editorial board of The Washington Post argued that the social media-addiction ruling is a blow against free speech.
■ Professor John R. Vile explains why the government cannot coerce social media companies to remove content it disagrees with.
■ The Pentagon’s efforts to “punish” AI company Anthropic have been blocked by a federal judge in California.
■ Rapper Afroman has won a lawsuit brought by Ohio deputies who claimed they were defamed in the artist’s music videos.
Speak up. Notable speakers, including Jane Fonda, Billy Porter, and Joan Baez, led a rally outside the Kennedy Center vowing to fight back against President Trump’s crackdown on arts and media.
■ Thousands of “No Kings” protest rallies that drew an estimated 8 million people could affect the results of upcoming midterm elections, The New York Times’ Tim Balk reported.
Speak up. Notable speakers, including Jane Fonda, Billy Porter, and Joan Baez, led a rally outside the Kennedy Center vowing to fight back against President Trump’s crackdown on arts and media.
■ Thousands of “No Kings” protest rallies that drew an estimated 8 million people could affect the results of upcoming midterm elections, The New York Times’ Tim Balk reported.
■ Longtime political talk-show host Bill Maher is this year’s recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
■ A “content-neutral” sign policy at Boston University has led to the removal of pride flags on campus.
No promotion. A group of veteran Voice of America journalists have sued Trump administration official Kari Lake over pro-Trump propaganda on the air.
■ The U.S. Defense Department announced new restrictions on journalists just days after a court blocked a previous policy. The policy now would require journalists to have department-assigned escorts to access the Pentagon.
■ An appeal from an online journalist who said she was wrongfully arrested for seeking nonpublic information from police has been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
■ Supreme Court justices have unanimously ruled to revive a lawsuit from an evangelical Christian who was barred from demonstrating after shouting insults over a loudspeaker.
Taking a shot. Allies of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have petitioned the government to broaden a federal list of vaccine injury conditions they say are linked to immunizations.
■ President Trump’s on-again, off-again campus antisemitism fight is accelerating, driving debates that the government is using the campaign against discrimination as a cover to force universities to adopt more conservative ideas, The New York Times reported.
■ A “content-neutral” sign policy at Boston University has led to the removal of pride flags on campus.
No promotion. A group of veteran Voice of America journalists have sued Trump administration official Kari Lake over pro-Trump propaganda on the air.
■ The U.S. Defense Department announced new restrictions on journalists just days after a court blocked a previous policy. The policy now would require journalists to have department-assigned escorts to access the Pentagon.
■ An appeal from an online journalist who said she was wrongfully arrested for seeking nonpublic information from police has been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
■ Supreme Court justices have unanimously ruled to revive a lawsuit from an evangelical Christian who was barred from demonstrating after shouting insults over a loudspeaker.
Taking a shot. Allies of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have petitioned the government to broaden a federal list of vaccine injury conditions they say are linked to immunizations.
■ President Trump’s on-again, off-again campus antisemitism fight is accelerating, driving debates that the government is using the campaign against discrimination as a cover to force universities to adopt more conservative ideas, The New York Times reported.
■ Students at the University of Alabama, citing viewpoint-discrimination and censorship, have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the decision of school officials to suspend two student-run magazines.
■ An Arkansas law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools was struck down by a federal judge.
Low marks. A research group’s democracy index report has found that freedom of expression in the United States is at its lowest level since the end of World War II, with authors citing the “suppression and intimidation of media and dissenting voices” as the key reason.
■ A $6.2 billion television-station merger will deprive communities of vital local journalism, declared the editorial board of The Seattle Times.
■ An Arkansas law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools was struck down by a federal judge.
Low marks. A research group’s democracy index report has found that freedom of expression in the United States is at its lowest level since the end of World War II, with authors citing the “suppression and intimidation of media and dissenting voices” as the key reason.
■ A $6.2 billion television-station merger will deprive communities of vital local journalism, declared the editorial board of The Seattle Times.
■ Immigration reporter Estefany Rodríguez publicly shared her two-week federal detention ordeal with the Nashville Banner.
■ Nashville’s “Jackie Robinson of journalism,” Robert Churchwell, is honored by the city where he worked as the first full-time Black reporter for a Southern newspaper.
■ George Kennedy, a “journalist’s journalist” who inspired thousands of student reporters at the University of Missouri, has died at 84.
■ Nashville’s “Jackie Robinson of journalism,” Robert Churchwell, is honored by the city where he worked as the first full-time Black reporter for a Southern newspaper.
■ George Kennedy, a “journalist’s journalist” who inspired thousands of student reporters at the University of Missouri, has died at 84.