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Nearly All Remaining Voice of America Employees Could Be Fired Under Plan

A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

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The Voice of America building in Washington. President Trump has accused the outlet, which delivers news in countries with authoritarian governments such as Russia, China and Iran, of spreading “anti-American” and partisan “propaganda.”
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How Trump Talks About Antisemitism

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump repeatedly promised voters that he’d be the “best friend Jewish Americans have ever had in the White House.” But after a string of violent antisemitic attacks, the president has been criticized for his slow or muted responses. Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, explains.
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‘Sinners’ Goes Beyond Horror and the Blues for Clarksdale, Miss.

The community effort and attention around “Sinners,” a blockbuster horror movie, became an opportunity to talk about investing in the Delta town that built the blues.

Tyler Yarbrough with Dr. Mary Williams. He led an open letter urging the director Ryan Coogler to screen “Sinners” in Clarksdale, Miss., “to experience firsthand the living, breathing legacy that inspired your work and the people who are sustaining and reimagining its future.”
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