FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 8 - Caught on Camera

PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy

Champions of the almost entirely party-line vote in the U.S. Senate to erase US$1.1 billion in already approved funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting called their action a refusal to subsidize liberal media.

The Conversation · Jul 21, 2025

Trade stand-off continues as US drug tariffs loom

The deadline on US pharmaceutical tariffs has been dramatically brought forward, in the latest escalation of Donald Trump's trade war with the world.

AAP · Jul 19, 2025

Trump’s $9B clawback against PBS and NPR may have bought him a post-summer government shutdown

President has circumvented the government appropriations process and that may heap pain on him come fall

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2025

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism

The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives approved by narrow margins on July 17 and 18, 2025, a law that claws back federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Once President Donald Trump signs it into law, the US$9 billion rescissions package will withdraw $1.1 billion Congress had…

The Conversation · Jul 17, 2025

The Senate Was Right To Defund NPR and PBS

This was not an attack on the free press.

Reason · Jul 17, 2025

How To Keep Your Radio Station Going When the Government's Checks Don't Come

The Senate just voted to cut off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What comes next?

Reason · Jul 17, 2025

Death to Big Bird

Plus: Jerome Powell on Trump's kill list, conservatives embrace speech restrictions, homeschooling heat, and more...

Reason · Jul 17, 2025

US Senators Approve $9 Billion Of Elon Musk's Federal Cuts

The US Senate approved early Thursday a package of spending cuts proposed by President Donald Trump that would cancel more than $9 billion in funding for foreign aid programs and public broadcasting.

International Business Times · Jul 17, 2025

Three Republican senators break with Trump to vote against codifying DOGE spending cuts

Senators Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitch McConnell criticized the White House for a lack of transparency surrounding the proposed cuts

The Independent UK · Jul 16, 2025

How to watch Bookish online or on TV from around the world

Here's how you can watch Bookish, which premieres on Wednesday, July 16.

WhatToWatch · Jul 16, 2025