President Donald Trump called for PBS and NPR to be defunded Wednesday, resuming attacks against public media as Republicans echoed the president’s wishes and accused the nonprofit media outlets ...

I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. There’s a whiff of 1998 in the Jakarta air as investors flee Indonesia’s currency and the stock market. The outflows are ...

President Trump on Thursday renewed a call to defund NPR and PBS a day after top executives from the public broadcasters faced an intense grilling from GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

NPR and PBS have long faced Republican claims of political bias, and Trump has repeatedly called for them to be defunded. In fact, every Republican administration except Gerald Ford’s has tried ...

Republicans have frequently claimed that PBS and NPR news programming leans left, but efforts to cut or eliminate funding usually fade because legislators want to protect their local stations ...

At the start of Wednesday’s congressional hearing on the funding of public media, a large photo of drag queen Lil Miss Hot Mess appearing on a PBS kids show was displayed behind committee chair Rep.

The House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing came as Republicans and allies of President Trump have assailed public media organizations NPR and PBS as too liberal in news ...

This needs to end, and it needs to end now,” Taylor Greene said in her opening remarks. Paula Kerger, the chief executive of PBS, and Katherine Maher, the chief executive of NPR both appeared before ...

Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum Congressional Republicans laced into PBS and NPR on Wednesday, accusing the country’s biggest public media networks of institutional bias in a fiery ...

Democrats had some bizarre defenses for NPR and PBS in Wednesday’s House DOGE Subcommittee, with some representatives invoking characters from Sesame Street and The Muppets to attack Republican ...

President Trump said he “would love to” remove federal funding for mainstream news outlets NPR and PBS during a meeting at the White House on Tuesday. “Well, I would love to do that ...

NPR's Katherine Maher and PBS' Paula Kerger at House hearing on public broadcasting funding. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images UPDATED: NPR and PBS were in the spotlight at a House hearing this ...