At least 13,000 asylum seekers are without housing after a massive fire gutted the notorious Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, with some accusing migrants of setting the blaze.
A police officer in Delafield, Wisconsin, offered a teenager a helping hand when he found himself in an unfortunate situation last week.
Two citizens and ten police officers in Davenport, Iowa, were recognized Wednesday for their heroic actions when a neighbor’s house caught fire on July 3rd.
“[Protest] will ultimately burn itself out,” Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler told the local public radio station.
Stockton University has dropped all charges against a graduate student facing disciplinary action for making his Zoom background a photo of President Donald Trump and for a subsequent political Facebook post defending his freedom of expression.
Stockton University has dropped 5 of the 6 charges against a graduate student that was facing disciplinary action for making his Zoom background a photo of President Donald Trump and for a subsequent political Facebook post defending his freedom of expression.
A student at Stockton University is facing a possible suspension and other disciplinary charges for making his Zoom background a photo of President Donald Trump and for a subsequent political Facebook post defending his freedom of expression, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). According to the university, the image of President Trump caused students “to feel offended, disrespected, and taunted.”
A major fire erupted at an Iranian market in Ajman, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), on Wednesday, multiple local news outlets reported.
Student Austin Tong of Fordham University has been placed on probation by the school for an Instagram post to honor the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In the post, Tong posed with a legally-obtained rifle to symbolize the resistance of pro-democracy activists in China.
A dog in Pace, Florida, is being praised for alerting his family to a dangerous situation that occurred on Saturday.
The San Diego community is helping sailors get back on their feet after they lost everything during the fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard.
A Socorro, Texas, police officer ran inside a burning mobile home to save an eight-year-old boy and his family trapped inside, according to a shocking video.
A family from Toronto, Canada, is lucky to be alive after their neighbor’s dog named Georgia alerted them to a fire inside their home, according to a video.
An Oregon police officer has been commended for his “heroic” deeds after he ran inside a burning building to rescue a baby on Friday.
A group of students is defending UCLA Professor Gordon Klein, who was placed on leave after he denied a request to postpone a final exam for black students. Student activists at universities and colleges around the nation have demanded lenient grading and postponed exams for black students in response to the social unrest that has followed the death of George Floyd.
Worcester State University has reversed its previous decision to deny conservative students the ability to recruit members for a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) student group after calls by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) to end the school’s viewpoint discrimination.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a First Amendment advocacy group, penned a letter this week in defense of UCLA lecturer Gordon Klein, who was suspended from the university over his refusal to postpone an exam for black students.
Lousiana State University Professor Alyssa Johnson tweeted this week that she will prevent students from registering for her courses if they engage in “hate speech.” Johnson’s tweet has received scrutiny from several First Amendment advocacy organizations.
A massive fire consumed an Amazon Distribution Center in Redlands, California, early Friday morning.
After the Barberton VFW burned down on Tuesday, businesses and members of the community joined forces to bring it back.
At least Russian five patients on ventilators in an intensive care unit (ICU) because of the Chinese coronavirus were killed during a fire at a hospital in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, as the country continues to struggle with its response to the global pandemic.
The chancellor at Scottsdale Community College has apologized for “the uneven manner” in which it handled a professor that drew criticism on social media over test questions about Islamic terrorism. The community college initially criticized the professor and even suggested he be required to meet with an Islamic religious leader to review the contents of his course.
An Ohio woman is accused of calling 911 repeatedly to ask for assistance in extinguishing a fire in her crotch.
Jeff Klinzman will receive a $25,000 settlement from Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, over the college’s decision to terminate him last fall. Klinzman was terminated from his professorship after he revealed that he was a member of the far-left militant group Antifa, threatened to attack President Trump with a baseball bat, and fantasized about murdering Christians.
A California community is coming together to help a 71-year-old veteran who recently lost his home in a fire.
A whopping 77 percent of top colleges and universities funded by taxpayer dollars use a secret social media blacklist to censor the public, which the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) says is in violation of the First Amendment. The censored terms differ between universities but aren’t limited to controversial terms. For example, one New York community college censors words related to winter weather, like “snow” and “blizzard.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling on Worcester State University in Worcester, Massachusetts, to grant club status to Turning Point USA, which was denied recognition by the school’s student government.
Officials in Ukraine asserted on Tuesday that a sprawling fire threatening to engulf the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, had finally come under control, but not before reaching Pripyat, the ghost town once built to house power plant workers.
The Foundation for Individual Right in Education (FIRE) says that it will monitor online college classes to ensure that academic freedom and freedom of expression are protected in virtual classrooms during the Chinese virus pandemic.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) published a press release about possible censorship by administrators at the University of California. Last week, the University of California cautioned students against the use of the term “Chinese virus.”
Destiny Waite allegedly set fire to her Hartford, Connecticut, apartment building on Monday using a “molotov cocktail” fueled by hand sanitizer.
Thousands of voting machines mysteriously went up in flames near Caracas, Venezuela this week, shortly before Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime planned a fraudulent election to regain control of the National Assembly, the country’s last democratically elected institution.
A woman is grateful she was not injured after her truck suddenly caught on fire Sunday in Deer Park, Texas.
Officials at the University of Albany (SUNY-Albany) tried to shut down an off-campus coronavirus-themed party after student activists argued that it was “racist.” Now, First Amendment advocacy groups are speaking out about the university’s responsibility to uphold free speech.
A woman who delivered her own baby in the emergency room on Monday wound up saving a truck driver’s life from a fire on Thursday, just days after she gave birth.
Three people worked together to rescue a truck driver after an explosion in Indianapolis on Thursday — and one of them had just given birth.
A man in Miami, Florida, placed his own life in danger to save a fellow driver whose car had gone up in flames Wednesday.
Bruce McConville told a judge he withdrew and then burnt over $1 million to keep it from going to his ex-wife.
A fire devastated a family’s home Sunday in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, but did not destroy everything inside it.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education released its list of the “worst colleges” for free speech. The annual list ranks the colleges that are the most willing to restrict the speech rights of its students and faculty.