US EditionForeign journalists at US-backed media fear being sent to repressive homelands after Trump’s cuts
- Cambodian journalists Vuthy Tha and Hour Hum came to the U.S. Last year on work visas.
- These journalists fled repression and sought to provide uncensored news via Radio Free Asia.
- Vuthy and Hour, along with others, now fear deportation due to Trump's cuts to USAGM funding.
- Director General Thibaut Bruttin stated that abandoning journalists who risk their lives is outrageous.
- Though a court halted terminations, RFA and RFE/RL sued, fearing danger upon deportation.
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Chicago Fulbright scholar ‘embarrassed to be American’ after Trump cut funding for her work in Africa
Chicago gynecologist Nicole Williams landed in Uganda Jan. 20, the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. She was heading to the East African nation on a Fulbright scholarship — a longstanding international exchange program that connects Americans to the world and promotes cross-cultural engagement.Williams got set up at the Kabale University School of Medicine, where she planned to investigate maternal health outcomes, help teach medical…
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Foreign journalists at US-backed media fear being sent to repressive homelands after Trump’s cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — After hiding in Thailand for seven years, two Cambodian journalists arrived in the United States last year on work visas, aiming to keep providing people in their Southeast Asian homeland with objective, factual news through Radio Free Asia. But Vuthy Tha and Hour Hum now say their jobs and legal status in the U.S. are at risk after President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order gutting the government-run U.S. Agency…
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