Voice of America Ordered to Be Restored After Judge Blocks Trump's Cuts

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump Administration's push to cut Voice of America and other government-funded news services. Judge Royce Lamberth said the Trump Administration had "no method or approach" to shut down the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the VOA's parent agency; he ordered the USAGM to restore employment to staffers who had been placed on leave and to continue operating as before. "It is hard to fathom a more straightforward display of arbitrary and capricious actions than the Defendants' actions here," the judge said on Tuesday. Judge Lamberth granted a . . .