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President Donald Trump called for PBS and NPR to be defunded Wednesday, resuming attacks against public media as Republicans echoed the president’s wishes and accused the nonprofit media outlets ...
President Trump on Thursday renewed a call to defund NPR and PBS a day after top executives from the public broadcasters faced an intense grilling from GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
NPR and PBS have long faced Republican claims of political bias, and Trump has repeatedly called for them to be defunded. In fact, every Republican administration except Gerald Ford’s has tried ...
The heads of NPR and PBS sat for a high-intensity grilling on Capitol Hill Wednesday as they tried to defend their taxpayer-funded liberal news outlets from the wrath of Republicans. NPR CEO ...
Sudanese citizens celebrate in Port Sudan after the Sudanese army deepened its control over the capital, Khartoum, on March 27, 2025 [Ibrahim Mohammed Ishak/Reuters] Sudan’s civil war could ...
Republicans have frequently claimed that PBS and NPR news programming leans left, but efforts to cut or eliminate funding usually fade because legislators want to protect their local stations ...
In the last few days we’ve heard what sound like the opening salvos of a Democratic Party civil war. After losing two of the last three presidential elections to Donald Trump, self-reflection is ...
unqualified secretary of Defense who’s texting war plans to journalists,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). The Republicans’ other argument against taxpayer funding of PBS and NPR is ...
19:27 (IST) Mar 26 Palestinians protest Hamas in a rare public show of dissent in Gaza Palestinians in Gaza have staged rare protests against Hamas amid ongoing war with Israel, expressing ...
The House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing came as Republicans and allies of President Trump have assailed public media organizations NPR and PBS as too liberal in news ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday used a DOGE subcommittee hearing to call for the defunding and dismantling of the company that provides NPR and PBS with federal funds. For Taylor Greene ...
The CEOs of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service denied accusations of liberal bias at a congressional hearing Wednesday, as Republican lawmakers sought to portray public ...