NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Voice of America, the eight-decade-old U.S. government-funded international news service. The judge calls the move a “classic case of arbitrary and capricious decision making.” Judge James Paul Oetken blocked the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which runs Voice of America, from firing more than 1,200 journalists, engineers and other staff. It sidelined them two weeks ago after President Donald Trump ordered its funding slashed.
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