USS Freedom (LCS-1) is the lead ship of the Freedom-class littoral combat ship for the United States Navy.She is the third vessel to be so named after the concept of freedom.She is the design competitor produced by the Lockheed Martin consortium, in competition with the General Dynamics–designed USS Independence.She was officially accepted by the Supervisor of …

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.At the march, final speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the …

Economic freedom has been shown to correlate strongly with higher average income per person, higher income of the poorest 10%, higher life expectancy, higher literacy, lower infant mortality, higher access to water sources and less corruption.The share of income in percent going to the poorest 10% is the same for both more and less economically free countries.

Freedom of movement, mobility rights, or the right to travel is a human rights concept encompassing the right of individuals to travel from place to place within the territory of a country, and to leave the country and return to it. The right includes not only visiting places, but changing the place where the individual resides or works. Such a right is provided in the constitutions of ...

In Freedom House's 2013 press freedom survey, Iran was ranked "Not Free", and among "The world’s eight worst-rated countries" (coming in 5th out of 196). According to the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index for 2020, Iran ranked 173th out of 179 nations. "Iran has been one of the world’s most repressive countries for ...

Libel involves publication in some permanent form such as writing in a book or newspaper.: 91 Defamation is a tort that gives a person the right to recover damages for injury due to publication of words that were intended to lower a person's character.: 51 The law encourages the media to publish with caution, to avoid any forms of libel and to respect a person's freedom of expression.

The American Freedom Party (formerly the American Third Position Party or A3P) is a political party in the United States that promotes white nationalism. In November 2009, it filed papers to be on a ballot in California, and was launched in January 2010. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, it was created to channel the right-wing populist resentment engendered by the …

In statistics, the number of degrees of freedom is the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.. Estimates of statistical parameters can be based upon different amounts of information or data. The number of independent pieces of information that go into the estimate of a parameter is called the degrees of freedom. In general, the degrees of freedom …

Worldwide Press Freedom Index, is published each year since 2002 (except that 2011 was combined with 2012) by France-based Reporters Without Borders. Countries are assessed as having a good situation, ... Freedom of the Press is a report published each year since 1980 by Freedom House.

The Freedom Caucus, also known as the House Freedom Caucus, is a congressional caucus consisting of conservative Republican members of the United States House of Representatives. It is generally considered to be the most conservative and farthest- right bloc within the House Republican Conference .

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.. The power of the presidency has grown substantially since the first president, George Washington, took office in 1789.

The sexual revolution, also known as a time of sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behavior related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the United States and the developed world from the 1960s to the 1970s. Sexual liberation included increased acceptance of sex outside of traditional heterosexual, …

国境なき記者団が2020年に発表した世界報道自由度ランキング（Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2020）では、対象となる180カ国中、報道の自由が保障されている国として、ノルウェー、フィンランド、デンマークなどがあげられている。

Before 2004, in the "Freedom of the Press" report, published by the American organization Freedom House, Italy had always been classified as "Free" (regarding the freedom of press). In 2004, it was demoted to "Partly Free", due to "20 years of failed political administration", ...