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Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs committee, Kari Lake, the two-time Arizona political candidate tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the country's international media agency, had a ...
While Kari Lake's campaign called her GOP primary victory versus Mark Lamb's 39% as "decisive,'' two well-known Arizona political operatives say that's not the case.
Kari Lake confirms VOA Persian news service is ramping up as Iran-Israel conflict escalates, bringing back journalists who were placed on leave during recent agency cost-cutting.
Senior White House adviser Kari Lake issued mass layoff notices Friday to 639 employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the federal outlet which owns the Voice of America and through which ...
Senior White House adviser Kari Lake issued mass layoff notices Friday to 639 employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the federal outlet which owns the Voice of America and through which ...
President Trump’s pick to run Voice of America, Kari Lake, pictured here at a conservative conference in 2024, announced the axing of almost all of the US-funded outlet’s staff on Friday.
Lake told Fox News that VOA’s “Persian news service is rising to the occasion” to cover the conflict. However, some of those staffers received layoff notices on Friday, journalists there said.
Journalists who have risked their freedom to report for Voice of America and its sister news outlets wonder what happens to them now that the Trump administration has gutted their parent agency.