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Kari Lake, the director of Voice of America, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 25, 2025. The federal media agency that oversees Voice of America, and whose Trump-appointed leadership has been deemed illegal by a judge, failed to cooperate with a required annual audit of its finances, according to a newly released report. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times)

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As Kari Lake Sought to Shutter Voice of America, Parent Agency Rebuffed Auditors

A crowd gathers to celebrate the announcement of Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the recently killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as his father’s successor at Enghelab Square in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, March 9, 2026. Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei could prove to be even more radical than his father and predecessor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by the U.S. and Israel at the start of the war. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times)

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Iran’s Choice of New Leader Signals Defiance to Foes

The Ohio State University campus in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 25, 2020. (Reuters/Megan Jelinger)

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Ohio State President Resigns Following ‘Inappropriate Relationship’

President Donald Trump attends a roundtable on the Ratepayer Protection Pledge in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) on the White House campus in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 4, 2026. (Reuters/Nathan Howard)

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Trump Says War Against Iran Is ‘Very Complete,’ CBS News Reports

Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a working lunch at the Shield of the Americas Summit at Trump National Doral Miami, in Doral, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2026. (Rebecca Blackwell/Pool via Reuters)

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US Weighs Censuring Afghanistan Over Detained Americans, Could Ban US Travel to the Country

An airport official directs passengers at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, in Kenner, Louisiana, U.S., March 8, 2026. (Reuters/David Gaffen)

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TSA Absences Stretch Airport Security Lines as Spring Break Travel Begins

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