US judge blocks Trump’s effort to shutter international news service | Freedom of the Press News

District judge orders administration to restore the capacity of broadcaster shuttered over claims of ‘leftist bias’.

A federal judge has stated that US President Donald Trump illegally halted the operation of the Voice of America (VOA), a federally funded international news service created by Congress.

In a ruling on Tuesday, US District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the Trump administration to restore the 83-year-old broadcaster’s capacity to the levels before Trump slashed funding and…