LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joshua Gill A case of alleged police harassment set new legal precedent for holding government officials accountable for violating the First Amendment. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s ruling Tuesday, protecting police officers Lee Stevens and Jason Lindsey under qualified immunity, but acknowledging that their alleged actions against Mary Sause…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By David Sivak As part of a segment last week on political violence, NPR interviewed a senior fellow at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) who claimed right-wing extremists have committed 74 percent of murders carried out by domestic extremists in the last 10 years. He used this statistic as evidence that…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jack Crowe The founder of the anti-Islamist think tank Quilliam received a public gesture of support from Bill Maher while appearing on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” Friday night. Maajid Nawaz announced his plan to sue the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for defamation over its inclusion of his…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch Researchers published a new study making the shockingly apocalyptic claim that nearly one-fifth of the world’s population will be forced from their due to man-made global warming. The study estimates there could be 2 billion “climate change refugees” by the year 2100 if nothing is done to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joshua Gill The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trinity Lutheran Church Monday, deciding that refusal to grant a public benefit to the church violates the First Amendment. Trinity Lutheran Church sued the Missouri Department of Natural Resources over the department’s refusal to award Trinity a publicly available grant to resurface its…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall The New York Daily News’ senior justice writer Shaun King blasted Christians Monday for perpetrating white supremacy for their support of President Donald Trump’s immigration halt. King put out a series of tweets accusing Christians who supported the halt of “fake faith” after the Supreme Court allowed…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrea Vacchiano Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who gained notoriety for raising the cost of the AIDS drug Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 a pill, begins a long-awaited securities fraud trial on June 26 in Brooklyn. Shkreli is being accused of running a Ponzi-like scheme between…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell South Korea is using the Winter Olympics to connect with the North, but the rapprochement Seoul is seeking with Pyongyang is advancing poorly. South Korea, which will host the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang has proposed co-hosting the sporting event and even forming a unified team. The goal is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Andrew Follett The UK’s electric grid will become more vulnerable to cyber attacks as more green energy comes online, the ex-chairman of the country’s national grid said Monday. Steve Holliday, the the former chairman of the U.K.’s national grid, said decentralized power from wind turbines and solar panels are…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese human rights activist recently diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer, has been released on medical parole and moved from his prison cell to a hospital. Liu was a prominent leader during the Tiananmen Square protests almost three decades ago, and he spent two years…