President Trump signed an executive order on Friday seeking to dismantle seven additional federal agencies, including the one that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded media outlets around the world. Mr. Trump directed the heads of the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, to eliminate all functions…
Thanks to Elon Musk, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been effectively shut down. As a result, its global funding of ostensibly independent non-profits has been exposed. While many did valuable humanitarian work, some openly carried out influence operations and subversion against foreign governments. Such groups – not the least are those targeting…
Belarus, Russia’s closest ally, has released an American prisoner and two others from jail, an exiled opposition group said on Wednesday, in the latest sign that the autocratic Belarusian president, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, was looking for ways to improve frozen relations with the West. The releases, announced by an opposition group led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya…