Kari Lake, recently appointed a special adviser to USAGM, sent letters on March 15 to RFE/RL and OTF, among others, terminating their federal grant agreements. A statement on the USAGM website ...

The U.S. Agency for Global Media has rescinded its letter terminating RFE/RL’s grant agreement for fiscal 2025. “The agreement is therefore back in effect,” RFE/RL said in a press release. According ...

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In a court filing, Judge Royce C. Lamberth granted RFE/RL’s request for a temporary restraining order against Lake, who oversees the U.S. Agency for Global Media, asserting that terminating the ...

Amid an attempt by US President Donald Trump’s administration to halt congressionally allocated funding from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), the broadcaster’s audiences in the ...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Kari Lake and the Trump administration from moving to defund Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth found that ...

Founded by the United States during the Cold War to counter Soviet propaganda, RFE/RL was banned across the communist bloc including former Czechoslovakia, where regimes regularly jammed its signal.

Congress appropriated $77 million to fund RFE/RL’s operations for the rest of the fiscal year. A total of $142.2 million was allocated for RFE/RL for 2025 as a whole. Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S.

Leaders of the broadcasters – including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks – have instructed their organizations to continue broadcasting because ...