Radio Free Asia is laying off most of its staff and shutting down broadcasts amid a funding battle with the Trump administration, CNN reported Friday.
Radio Free Asia had suspended most of its Washington-based staff after the suspension of funding — that also included Voice of America and Middle East Broadcasting Networks — was first announced by the Trump administration on March 15.
A federal judge ordered the parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), to restore funding and rehire staff that had been laid off at VOA as well as at Radio Free Asia and the Middle Broadcasting Networks on April 22.
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