Senior White House adviser Kari Lake, the election-denying MAGA devotee dismantling Voice of America, is leading a push to ...

Judge Royce Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction against Kari Lake and the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) sought by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Voice of America (VOA) employees, and ...

During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on July 15, 2025, Senator Chris Murphy got into an exchange with Trump's U.N. ambassador nominee Mike Waltz over the administration's gutting of ...

Six months into US President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has become increasingly hostile towards the press, both mimicking and inspiring authoritarian and quasi-authoritarian ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published a report on Monday assessing the state of public media across 27 EU member states, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. The report warns of future threat ...

The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) was also dismantled, leaving only Chinese state media broadcasts in many Asian countries such as Indonesia, the biggest economy in Southeast Asia.

The USAGM is an independent government agency that oversees several US-funded broadcasters, which together distribute news and information in almost 50 languages to some 361 million people each week.

The US Agency for Global Media must disburse funds appropriated to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for the rest of the fiscal year, a federal judge ruled Friday. USAGM has “stonewalled” Radio Free ...

Kari Lake, the Trump administration's special advisor to the USAGM, said on X, "A Voice of America Employee has been Indicted for Threatening Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene using phones at the VOA ...

Murphy raised concerns about the Trump administration's impact on U.S. counter-propaganda efforts, citing the dismantling of USAGM and related agencies, which he argued weakened U.S. national ...

While Trump’s cuts to USAGM, whose outlets deliver uncensored information to parts of the world under authoritarian rule and often without a free press of their own, has resulted in the loss of ...