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The errors in the layoff notices could have derailed President Trump’s effort to dismantle the news organization. The ...
After Lamberth’s initial order to return Voice of America to the air and staff it back up, a small group of 30 employees – from a staff of 1300 workers on leave – was brought back by Lake ...
Oh, I’m sure the Voice of America will go on under Lake’s visionary leadership. It just won’t sound anything like the voice created during World War II to counter Nazi propaganda.
Voice of America is, by law, editorially independent, meaning the Trump administration cannot control the network’s content. That means it sometimes publishes news that reflects poorly on the ...
Staffers at the government-funded Voice of America news service can go back to work, a federal judge in Washington ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued a preliminary ...
The Trump administration fired around 600 employees at Voice of America, approximately one-third of its staff. The layoffs targeted contracted journalists and some administrative employees.
Voice of America will carry programming from the right-wing TV network One America News, according to a post on X from Kari Lake on Tuesday night. Lake, a senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for ...
In a heated hearing, Kari Lake, the Trump ally in charge of the federally funded international broadcasting network, called the media agency “a rotten piece of fish” that should be defunded.
Majority of staff axed at Voice of America. Some affected employees worked for the Persian- language service and were called back to work just last week in light of the Middle East conflict.
A federal appeals court said it would not intervene — at least for now — to thwart the Trump administration's plans for the near-total dismantlement of Voice of America.
Presidential adviser Kari Lake attacked the Voice of America in Congressional testimony Wednesday. A former network official called her actions "profoundly harmful to our national interests." ...
Ms. Lake, who is leading the effort to gut Voice of America, called the news group “a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy” and attributed her termination of 639 employees at her agency to her ...