A US federal judge has ruled that the appointment of Kari Lake, the head of Voice of America’s (VOA) oversight agency, was invalid, voiding mass layoffs that she had carried out at the federally funded news organisation in 2025. The decision by Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of […]

A federal judge in New York has thwarted the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the US international broadcaster Voice of America (VoA), calling the move a “classic case of arbitrary and capricious decision making.” Judge James Paul Oetken blocked the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which runs Voice of America, from axing some 1,300 […]