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Embattled NPR president and CEO Katherine Maher sidestepped a question about whether she should prioritize “viewpoint diversity” in the newsroom in the wake of the resignation of a veteran editor who sounded the alarm about the organization’s liberal groupthink. During a conversation Wednesday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Maher was asked about “viewpoint diversity,” a topic NPR’s senior …

The Senate trial to consider impeachment articles against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas began shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday with the swearing-in of senators. Republicans warn that Democrats quickly will try to end the impeachment trial against Mayorkas — the first cabinet secretary to be impeached in nearly 150 years — before the House can formally begin presenting …

NPR is under fire again, this time for punishing the veteran editor who took his concerns public about the liberal takeover of its newsroom. The organization’s in-house media correspondent David Folkenflik reported Tuesday that Uri Berliner, NPR’s senior business editor who wrote the bombshell essay about his employer’s bias, was placed on a five-day suspension without pay that began Friday. …

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is planning to propose new legislative action that would threaten to cut National Public Radio’s (NPR) federal funding if passed, prompted by the news that it suspended an editor who went viral for exposing the outlet’s partisan uniformity in its newsroom. The Tennessee Republican is weighing a variety of legislative options to take …

Former President Donald Trump holds a two-point edge over President Biden in Wisconsin, according to a new poll on their 2024 presidential election rematch. Trump stands at 51% support among registered voters in the crucial Midwestern battleground, with Biden at 49%, according to a Marquette Law School Poll released on Wednesday. According to the survey, which was conducted April 3-10, …

The U.S. provided assurances requested by the British High Court in London that could allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. to face espionage charges. The High Court ruled last month that if the U.S. failed to provide assurances, Assange would be allowed to make an appeal challenging his extradition over WikiLeaks’ publication …

Gov. Gavin Newsom is staying silent on a Democrat-led bill moving through the legislature that would create a “link tax” requiring big tech companies, like Google, to pay media companies for linking to their pages. Last week, Google began removing news links to news pages while the legislation, dubbed the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), is under consideration. The bill, …

Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday planned to ignore the latest call from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to spend $125 million to combat so-called forever chemicals. Evers invoked a rarely used power and called a meeting of the Republican-led Legislature’s budget committee, urging it to release the funding that was previously approved in the state budget. But Republican co-chairs of the Joint …

The second day of jury selection in former President Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial is expected to begin Tuesday after half of prospective jurors were excused Monday for saying they could not be impartial toward the presumptive Republican nominee. Court is expected to begin again for the second day of Trump’s trial at 9:30 a.m. and will resume with jury selection. …

CHICAGO (AP) — Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal kicked off a United States visit Tuesday with multiple stops in Chicago aimed at drumming up investment and business in the war-torn country. He spoke to Chicago-area business leaders before a joint news conference with Penny Pritzker, the U.S. special representative for Ukraine’s economic recovery, and her brother, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. …