A federal judge ordered the parent agency of the Voice of America to return the network's 1,042 full-time employees who had been put on leave back to work by Monday, ruling that Trump administration official Kari Lake's efforts to dismantle the news outlet were "arbitrary and capricious." U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth last month ruled that Lake had unlawfully taken on almost all powers of the chief executive of the network's federal parent, called the U.S. Agency for Global Media, and therefore that her actions since joining as senior adviser to the agency were invalid. As the Cold War emerged from the ashes of war, the U.S. expanded the Voice of America as a form of soft power, to provide news to countries where a free press was blocked, intimidated or not financially viable.
Author: David Folkenflik
Published at: 2026-03-17 23:46:08
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