Recognizing those who have promoted Free Expression in areas of speech, the press, religious liberty, and arts and entertainment. Recipients included apple ceo tim cook, u. S. Representative and civil rights leader john lewis, abc for the spares dash before the first reporter Martha Raddatz and Playboy Enterprises founder hugh hefner. This is just over one hour. Good evening, fellow champions of the First Amendment, and welcome to the newseum Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. We are honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work has been the embodiment of Free Expression. Now, standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together, and let me move on to more serious subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter whos here tonight is a genius at this. The problem is, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment, less aye all George Carlin on you. [laughing] and where to keep this di
Out to more people has to be doubled, has to be made more real. And that brings us to the issue of education where we know there is a huge deficit in the region. The regions Higher Education institutions remain not up to the challenge of the 21st century, and many leaders recognize this. So we will continue to push where we can with 100,000 strong in the americas program, which was now awarded 38 innovation grants to 100 Higher Education institutions in 12 countries. I am proud we are continuing to work on this and really moving ahead with a lot of private sector partnerships in a lot of countries, but we need to do even more at partnering. We know that wholesale connection, what we are doing is connecting institutions to institution. We are not funding individual scholarships. We know that connecting universities and colleges to universities and colleges will raise the number of students who go on these exchanges faster than funding individual scholarships. We have seen the numbers of
Here is the front page of the wall street journal this morning. Iran agrees to outline of deal inside the wall street journal. What each side agreed to. The accord calls for ran to reduce the number of installed centrifuges to 6,104 from about 19,000. Of those just 5,060 will be used for the next ten years. Iran must also refrain from enriching uranium over 3. 67 purity, the level suitable for power plants but not weapons for 15 years. And allow International Inspectors regular access to all Nuclear Facilities as well as their supply chains. Those are some of the conditions that iran must agree to. And the u. S. And its partners will begin to lift many sanctions against iran within four to 12 months of a final accord depending on how quickly iran implements procedures. And snap back sanctions if iran is found a range of sanctions penalizing domestic and Foreign Countries for establishing economic and financial ties with iran. Those are some of the conditions in the agreement. Another a
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"I would like to go back, but I have nightmares about it," says Pastor Andrew Brunson. He is speaking about his experience in Turkey, where he had resided for decades until he was detained and kept in harsh prison conditions for two years, from October