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Ann Coulter said Wednesday that she was forced to cancel her speaking event Thursday at the University of California, Berkeley amid concerns of violence but might still "swing by to say hello" to all her supporters. Police and university officials said they were bracing for possible trouble whether Coulter comes to campus or not, citing intelligence and online chatter by groups threatening to instigate violence.
After years of escalated pressure from students, faculty and alumni, Harvard University is taking a significant step toward fossil fuel divestment. Earlier this week, at a Climate Week event entitled, "How Harvard's Endowment is Thinking About Climate," Colin Butterfield, Harvard Management Company's Managing Director of the Committee of Natural Resources said that HMC is "pausing" direct investments in oil, gas, and coal in the natural resources portfolio.
Howard Dean thinks "hate speech" is not protected by the First Amendment. A New York University professor was given space in the New York Times to deride the idea of "a blanket permission to say anything anybody thinks" and to defend protestors who, using violence, shut down a speech that was to be delivered recently by Charles Murray, the social scientist.
A Georgia congressional election in a historically conservative district is headed to a runoff that raises the stakes in an early measure for President Donald Trump and both major parties ahead of the 2018 midterm... A Georgia congressional election in a historically conservative district is headed to a runoff that raises the stakes in an early measure for President Donald Trump and both major parties ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. A planned appearance by provocative author Ann Coulter at the University of California, Berkeley next week has been called off because of safety and security concerns.
Ann Coulter fired off an angry stream of tweets Wednesday vowing to speak as planned next week at the University of California, Berkeley after campus officials called off the event for security concerns. "I WILL BE SPEAKING NEXT THURSDAY," the right-wing commentator tweeted, calling the move to cancel her planned event on April 27 a ban on free speech.
Berkeley cancels Ann Coulter lecture, but she's coming anyway - The University of California, Berkeley canceled an upcoming campus lecture by Ann Coulter on Wednesday, citing security concerns as the chief impetus for its decision.
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley surveyed 5,600 nearby stars looking for signs of alien life for more than a decade, but didn't detect anything. Drs. Nathaniel Tellis and Geoff Marcy suspected advanced alien civilizations would develop lasers and eventually point them in our direction.
He wasn't kidding. Now, as leader of the free world, he gets up in the morning and, long before receiving his intelligence briefing , he flips on cable news and starts tweeting.
While conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos insulted comics Lena Dunham, Leslie Jones, Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, his appearance on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" was relatively tame -- at least until the cameras were turned off. It was later, during an online-only "Overtime" segment of Maher's Friday night show, that two of Maher's three panelists hurled expletives at the Breitbart News senior editor.
Controversial Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference just south of Washington, D.C., next week. Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, tweeted Saturday: "We think free speech includes hearing Milo's important perspective."
There is a quote that is often attributed to former U.S. Representative Barney Frank: "'Government' is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together." When Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick quoted Rep. Frank at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, I just rolled my eyes.
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto is the recipient of a $3.1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative founded by Priscilla Chan and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, the philanthropic initiative is giving $3.1 million to Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto to help with programs to counter the eviction and displacement of families upended by runaway housing costs.
Violent tactics drove voters into the arms of the more right-wing, law-and-order candidate in the 1960s and 1970s. Hasn't the left learned from that mistake? In March 1969, a memo warned President Nixon to expect increased violence on college campuses that spring.
A vandalized Bank of America office is seen after a student protest turned violent at UC Berkeley during a demonstration over right-wing speaker Milo Yiannopoulos, who was forced to cancel his talk, in Berkeley, California. A worker surveys the damage to a vandalized Starbucks after a student protest turned violent at UC Berkeley during a demonstration over right-wing speaker Milo Yiannopoulos, who was forced to cancel his talk, in Berkeley, California.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY'S HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS-The three magic musts for a stock market rally? It must be a major macroeconomic news day, a pre-election day, and there must be a Democrat president in the White House, according to new research. When the country experiences these three conditions simultaneously, the U.S. stock market surges an average of 17 basis points.
Dear John: A thought occurred to me and I am writing to you as the one who can tell me if my idea has any merit. Since both of our presidential candidates have committed many egregious and, probably, illegal acts, might it be possible for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings immediately after their swearing-in as president, whoever wins? C.M. Dear C.M.: I love this question because it would be a perfect ending to a very strange campaign and because I actually asked Donald Trump about something along these lines.
President Barack Obama's 2013 tax increases for wealthy Americans neither slowed their income growth nor hurt the economy, according to a study that taps into a key debate in the current presidential race. The top 1 percent of earners managed to increase their share of the nation's income at about the same pace after their taxes were raised as they had before, according to the study , released Thursday by Emmanuel Saez, an economics professor at University of California, Berkeley.