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Update

Plaintiffs give an update on their lawsuit to restore VOA

With the government shutdown over, the clock has started ticking again for USAGM and its effective head, Kari Lake, to respond to Judge Royce Lamberth’s September 29 order demanding they comply with his April preliminary injunction to restore VOA programming and fulfill its statutory mandate.

That order halted Lake’s mass layoffs of journalists and staff, which had been scheduled to take effect on September 30.

Watch the update.

Featured stories

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Press Freedom

In authoritarian countries, the silencing of VOA is deafening

President Trump’s executive order succeeded in doing what authoritarian leaders had tried to do for decades: silence VOA.

Measuring the loss of VOA around the world

A look at how VOA’s output has declined since the Trump administration shut down most of the organization.

Fact Check

Lake’s attack on Voice of America

Read an annotated fact check of Kari Lake’s prepared remarks to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Voices

The Plaintiffs

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Ambassadors and experts

Headlines

Trump blocked from gutting Voice of America collective bargaining rights

A federal judge rejected the president’s assertion the U.S. Agency for Global Media had a “primary national security function” necessary to exempt employees from union representation. (Courthouse News Service | November 14, 2025)

Under Trump, Voice of America is down but not out (The New York Times - October 26, 2025)
Voice of America stops all broadcasting after government shuts down (The New York Times - October 1, 2025)
Judge blocks Kari Lake from laying off over 500 Voice of America staffers (The Washington Post - September 29, 2025)
Kari Lake said she learned of Trump dismantling VOA the day of his order (The Washington Post - September 23, 2025)
Trump officials move to fire most Voice of America journalists (The New York Times - August 30, 2025)
Judge blocks Trump’s firing of the head of Voice of America (The New York Times - August 28, 2025)

Editorials

Why the U.S. is losing the battle for hearts and minds (The Washington Post)America surrenders in the global information wars (The Atlantic)

“To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.”

Edward R. Murrow, Director of the U.S. Information Agency