A day after Trump said the U.S. is fighting a "war from within," Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries react to the president's comments.

Follow live news and President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders are blaming one another for the federal shutdown.

All active duty military and 400,000 civilian workers are currently serving without pay due to the government shutdown. This comes a day after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed military leaders and issued new directives and standards.

Trump and Hegseth were addressing an auditorium packed with several hundred of the nation’s most seasoned military commanders summoned last-minute from around the world.

Recent events, including an executive order on flag burning and comments and actions from elected and appointed officials with respect to comic material on broadcast television, have raised the specter of First Amendment violations.

Lawmakers and commentators say that the FCC’s pressure on Jimmy Kimmel could backfire.

Rogan argued people look for illusion of power with Kimmel suspension as the UK installs and Orwellian ‘nightmare.’

For the latest on the shutdown on Wednesday, click here. The government officially shut down at 12:01 a.m. after the Senate failed to pass a government funding bill. The chamber voted down a

Today, in AAUP v. Rubio, federal district Judge William G. Young (appointed by Ronald Reagan) ruled that speech-based deportations of foreign students and academics violate the First Amendment. Here is his summary of his long and detailed ruling (which runs to 161 pages in all):

A recent poll showed that while Americans are overwhelmingly against government restrictions on free speech, their views on the temporary suspension of late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was more varied,

Jane Fonda is picking up where her father left off nearly 80 years ago. The Oscar-winning actress announced Thursday she's relaunching the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative her father, Hollywood legend Henry Fonda, created in 1947 to fight McCarthyism.

One free speech organization has said the judge's ruling allows "blatant viewpoint discrimination in publicly-funded libraries."