The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations

The Knight Foundation and other top organizations are aiming to provide $50 million to stabilize the stations most at risk from the recent federal government funding cuts.

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Trump Administration Minimizes Summit Papers Left in Hotel

The papers, laying out the sequence of events and including the phone numbers of several officials, were found around 9 a.m. on Friday and sent to NPR by a guest of the hotel.

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Trump’s Selective Stance on Justice: Redemption for Some, Scorn for Others

President Trump, himself a felon, has shown particular leniency to criminals he seems to identify with — people who are white or wealthy, or who rioted in his name on Jan. 6, 2021.

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PBS Slashes Budget by 21% After Federal Funding Cuts

The nonprofit will receive less revenue from its members, which are under pressure to make up for shortfalls of their own.

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down

The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.

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Donations to NPR and PBS Stations Surge After Funding Cuts

Donors are turning out to support local stations, but those contributions so far fall well short of the annual $550 million that Congress cut.

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Edith Chapin, NPR’s Top Editor, Is Stepping Down

Edith Chapin, who is also acting chief content officer, has been editor in chief of the public radio network since 2023.

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NPR and PBS Funding Cuts Were Decades in the Making

The cuts speak to President Trump’s grip on his party but also to the sweeping changes in media.

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Republicans Fretted Over Ceding Spending Power to Trump. Then They Voted to Do It.

In voting for President Trump’s cancellation of $9 billion in spending they had already approved, Republicans in Congress showed they were willing to cede their power of the purse.

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Senate Approves Trump’s Bid to Cancel Foreign Aid and Funds for NPR and PBS Stations

The bill to claw back $9 billion in congressionally approved spending passed over the objections of Republicans who said it abdicated the legislative branch’s power of the purse.

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