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Corporate America's week of political retreats

By Maria Aspan

Published September 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM CDT

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Companies have been firing employees and cracking down on reactions to Charlie Kirk's assassination, in what business and legal experts call a "pretty bad" time for free speech.