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A Grammy Award-winning rock star left White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stunned with his question about free speech and political asylum during Monday’s briefing. Winston Marshall, the former banjoist with British folk group Mumford & Sons, called on President Trump to grant asylum to his fellow countrymen and -women who faced prosecutions over “hate speech” in the UK. Marshall, who left the band in 2021, claimed that people in his country faced “extensive prison sentences for tweets, social media posts and general free speech issues,” before ramping up to his question.

Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) claimed on Friday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that the Trump administration was attacking the freedoms of speech, religion and the press. Co-host Pamala Brown said, “You talk about due process, that brings me to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen was able to finally get a face to face meeting with him. The administration admitted that he was wrongly deported to El Salvador. Where do you think this goes from here?” Dingell said, “You know, I don’t know where it goes. I’m glad that the senator was able to see...

WEST LA FAYETTE, Ind. — A crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 people turned out to hear Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk speak on Thursday at Purdue University, with many eager to ask the conservative commentator a question. Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of the conservative student group, visited West La Fayette as part of his “American Comeback Tour.” The tour included stops this week at Illinois State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A campus police officer provided The College Fix with an estimate on attendance near the end of the event. Hundreds of students lined...

The woman who socked a pro-life reporter in the face during a filmed interview offered an apology Saturday — but claimed her “antagonistic” victim goaded her into violence. Rivers apologized for her actions, saying that she was wrong for attacking Craven Anato. “To Savannah, I sincerely apologize but cannot sit around and allow you to continue pushing this one sided narrative. I understand hands being put on someone is never the answer, but throwing rocks and hiding hands is worse,” Rivers wrote in a Facebook post. “She knows the truth and she needs to release the footage in its entirety....

‘They know our voice is so powerful and influential that they can’t accomplish their goals unless they shut us down. They will not succeed.’.. Americans’ constitutionally protected right to free speech “has been under worse attack in the last decade than at any other point in our nation’s history,” Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway told lawmakers during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. “The tentacles of the censorship-industrial complex are choking out freedom of expression, debate, and the right to criticize powerful institutions such as corporate media and the government,” Hemingway said. Throughout her opening statement, The Federalist’s editor-in-chief highlighted...

Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu is taking heat from local leaders for doubling down on liberal sanctuary city laws, and insisting “we stand with immigrants.” Wu has previously stated that Boston will not cooperate with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations — which she reiterated during her State of the City address Wednesday night. “No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies,” she said in her speech. “You belong here,” she told immigrants. Wu’s speech outraged conservative local leaders who oppose...

DJ Daniels is a young fan of the police who gained national attention when he was made an honorary Secret Service agent by former President Donald Trump. DJ’s admiration for law enforcement and his dream of becoming a police officer caught the attention of the White House. During an address to a joint session of Congress, Trump surprised DJ by announcing that he was being made an honorary Secret Service agent. CBN's Tara Mergener spoke with DJ and his father about what the gesture meant to the two of them.

WASHINGTON — While many Democrats shouted, booed, walked out or afterward harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s highly adversarial address to Congress on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman a day later took issue with something else: his own party. Fetterman, D-Pa. has long bucked a progressive label, become one of Capitol Hill’s staunchest supporters of Israel and a strong U.S. border, and touted bipartisanship and open-minded politics so much that he’s felt compelled to deny plans to switch parties. But he yet again chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday — this time over their protests of Trump’s nearly 100-minute speech. Many Democrats...

The father of DJ Daniel, the teenage cancer survivor whom President Trump honored on Tuesday, had harsh words for MSNBC host Rachel Maddow after she deemed the president “disgusting” for spotlighting the boy’s fight with cancer. During an interview with the New York Post, Theodis Daniel said, “She needs to shut her mouth if she has nothing nice to say,” the outlet reported on Wednesday. “This lady didn’t even serve time in the military. I was on the USS Kitty Hawk. She does not need to put her bad energy on us,” he added. Watch the clip of Maddow’s comments...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump reached an estimated 36.6 million television viewers for his address to Congress on Tuesday night, the Nielsen company said. That beat the 32.2 million people who watched former President Joe Biden's final State of the Union address last year, but was smaller than any of Trump's audiences for the annual address during his first term, Nielsen said. Trump's first speech to Congress as president, in 2017, was seen by 47.7 million people. Television viewing in general has decreased since then. Nielsen measured viewing on 15 different television networks, including those whose feed was carried...

Donald Trump‘s speech to a joint session of Congress drew an estimated 36.6 million viewers, down from the president’s first term but beating Joe Biden’s initial address in 2021. The audience was almost 10 million viewers compared to the 26.9 million who watched Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress. Trump’s first address in 2017 drew 47.7 million. The latest figures are from Nielsen and measured 15 networks. The speech’s peak audience was from 9:45 p.m. ET to 10 p.m. ET, with almost 38 million viewers, according to Nielsen

Viewers overwhelmingly approved of what President Donald Trump said in his speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, according to a CBS News survey. Trump boasted about the many accomplishments since being inaugurated Jan. 20 and exclaimed "we are just getting started." A whopping 76% of those watching said they approved of Trump's first second-term speech to Congress, CBS News survey results showed Wednesday.

We are witnessing a president at the top of his game. Clear-eyed and confident about himself and his agenda, he put on a master class in presidential leadership in what was a speech for the ages. Most times, a political address of 90 minutes would feel like an eternity. In the hands of Trump, it felt like a well-paced adventure through the dreams, hopes and tragedies of the people inhabiting the most important nation on Earth. The Trump on that stage is not just the dominant figure in American life. In six short weeks, he has put our nation at...

Deuteronomy 6: 6-7 (King James Version) And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. You wondered why they came to his speech at all, they would obviously rather go to a Hamas rally than a celebration of America. This was a giant speech with the optimism of Kennedy or Reagan who realized his primary job is Cheerleader...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said that President Donald Trump “misused” some of the guests at his speech Tuesday night — including the angel families who lost their loved ones to illegal immigrant crime and the young boy battling brain cancer. “Pretty awful, and I really did not like the way he used the tragic incidents and the families that were there, who, of course, appreciated, you know, what they think is their president caring about what happened,” Waters said, implying that Trump does not actually care about these individuals. “You know, to the 12-year-old, and to others who were victims,...

Most people watching President Trump’s first joint address to Congress approved of his speech according to snap polls. Seventy-six percent of people approved of the president’s remarks, while 23 percent disapproved as reported Wednesday in CBS News and YouGov survey results. A majority of respondents, 63 percent, said Trump spent a lot of time on issues they cared about compared to 28 percent who said the opposite. Another 9 percent said he spent no time at all on their topics of interest. Respondents also noted that his speech left them with a positive feeling overall, 68 percent said the speech...

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who infamously tore up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in 2020, had to watch in frustrated silence from the House benches as he addressed Congress on Tuesday. Pelosi, gripping her cane, resigned her leadership post after the 2022 congressional elections, in which Republicans retook the House. She had held a firm grip on power in her party — even after leading it to historic defeat in 2010. In 2020, she was in the midst of an effort to impeach and remove President Trump from power. When he delivered a...

Tuesday, following President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, Fox News Channel analyst Brit Hume offered his feedback on the President’s remarks. Hume acknowledged the partisan aspects of the address but called it “the most effective” of his 50 years of covering speeches in that setting. “This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan speech I’ve ever heard a president give in this kind of setting,” Hume declared. “And I go back about maybe 50 years on this. I also think it may have been the most effective. I mean, if you ever doubted that...

If you watched Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening, you know that Democrats behaved like children, and Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was so disruptive that House Speaker Mike Johnson had him forcibly removed from the chamber. Speaking to reporters after the incident, Green doubled down on his disruptive behavior and, of course, defended his childish actions. “The president said he had a mandate, and I was making it clear to the president that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid,” Green said. “I have people who are very fearful. These are poor people, and they have...

CBS News/YouGov survey interviewed a nationally representative sample of speech watchers immediately following Trump’s joint address to Congress, and the numbers will please the poll-mindful president. The poll shows an astounding 76 percent of Americans viewing the speech approved of Trump’s remarks, with only 23 percent — less than a quarter — disapproving.