Bennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University whose area of expertise is the Civil War period. He is a native of Royston, Georgia, and completed his PhD in history ...

Photo: Collected Leaders of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and Gono Forum staged a brief walkout from the ongoing National Consensus Commission dialogue today (18 June), protesting what they ...

The House passed the Recissions Act of 2025 on Friday to claw back more than $9.4 billion in foreign aid and direct funding for the CPB in a narrow 214-212 vote, sending the bill to the Senate for ...

CPB, PBS and NPR put out separate statements decrying the vote. Executives from the two networks urged the Senate to put a stop to the legislation.

Thursday afternoon, the U.S. House voted to pass the Rescissions Act of 2025, moving one step closer to rescinding $1.1 billion in funds previously approved by Congress for the Corporation for Public ...

The House voted in favor of President Trump's "rescission" bill Thursday, a measure that would claw back nearly $1.1 billion in funding already approved for PBS and NPR.

The House approved Thursday the Trump administration’s $9.4 billion rescission package that includes CPB funding, advancing the measure to the Senate. The package passed 214-212, with four Republicans ...

The House narrowly voted Thursday to cut about $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress, targeting foreign aid programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the law making CPB the entity to oversee federal grants to more than 300 public television stations and more than 1,000 public radio stations.

But for decades, Republicans in Congress have vowed to defund public media outlets. In 1994, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich argued for zeroing out CPB’s budget. That didn’t advance, but in more ...

Bashar al-Assad’s regime detained more than a million people during the Syrian war. Saydnaya was the regime’s most notorious prison. In a video drawn from the documentary ‘Syria’s Detainee ...