A banned books display is seen at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, Calif., last year. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Oct. 3 (UPI) --Efforts to ban books in public schools and public libraries reached an ...

The alarums are especially loud this year because the court in recent terms has overturned a number of high-profile ...

Matthew Battles, coordinating editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin, offers a brief history of book burning. “The kind of violence seen most recently in the immolation of Baghdad’s libraries stalks ...

WAYNE COUNTY, N.Y. – The school board in Clyde-Savannah will decide Wednesday whether to uphold a ban of five books from its junior and senior high school libraries. The board recently voted to ban ...

Justices will hear back-to-back arguments in cases that could upend the precedent that helps federal agencies defend environmental rules and rollbacks. In mid-January, the nation’s highest bench will ...

As U.S. senators take the measure of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, currently a federal appellate court judge in Washington, D.C., progressives (as liberals are wont to call themselves ...

Pennsylvania's one of only four states that still hasn't passed a budget for the fiscal year that ended in June. However, many states struggled with budgets this year. And according to budget experts, ...

Oct. 3 (UPI) --Efforts to ban books in public schools and public libraries reached an all-time high in 2022 and show few signs of abating for 2023, according to the American Library Association. The ...