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Since a fatwa was issued in 1989 by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s leader, calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie, Rushdie has spoken out against restricting the free exchange of ideas, noting in 2021 that increasingly “being offended is a valid critique….” Kohmeini and other Muslims objected to Rushdie’s novel, “The Satanic Verses” for its portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad. Rushdie’ stabbing last week at a literary event in western New York has reopened

An abortion foe is asking the Ninth Circuit appeals court to allow the publication of footage illegally obtained in 2014 and 2015 of the proceedings of the pro-choice National Abortion Federation. In arguments to the court, an attorney compared the case to New York Times Co. v United States or the Pentagon Papers case in which the Supreme Court ruled for releasing the papers, citing public interest in the papers and the importance of protecting

Former President Donald Trump has refused to release the search warrant for his Mar-a-Lago residence as he blasted the search as politically motivated. In the meantime, Judge Bruce Reinhart, who issued the warrant, imposed a deadline of August 15 for the Justice Department to respond to a request from the conservative Judicial Watch for the unsealing of the search records. (New York Post, August 10, 2022, by Callie Patteson and Steven Nelson) David French of