Page 39 - Patsy Widakuswara News Today

The U.S. slapped additional sanctions on Myanmar following a military coup on February 1. The crisis has emerged as an early test of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy as his administration pledges to defend democracy and seeks to counter China’s rising influence in the region. White House correspondent Patsy Widakuswara reports. VOA Khmer's Leakhena Sreng narrates.

As Donald Trump’s impeachment came to an end, there is renewed focus on threats from white supremacist and other groups who stormed the U.S. Capitol last month. White House correspondent Patsy Widakuswara looks at striking the right balance between security concerns and civil liberties

The Biden administration announced in January that the U.S. would join COVAX, the global effort by the World Health Organization and other groups to ensure that lower-income countries have access to the coronavirus vaccine. But as White House correspondent Patsy Widakuswara reports, the U.S.

Global Womens Health width No media source currently available 0:00 0:02:18 0:00

English January 29, 2021 12:45 AM Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can download this video to view it offline. Download File This program has ended and is being processed for playback. President Joe Biden reversed several Trump administration health care policies Thursday, including one that restricted access to abortion both inside and outside the United States. White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has this story on what Biden...

U.S. media outlets get editors back post-Trump but worry about damage Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If youre not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ A Voice of America crew reports in front of the resort where Chinese President Xi Jinping was set to stay before meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at his nearby Mar-a-Lago estate in 2017. | REUTERS AFP-Jiji Jan 28, 2021 Washington – Voice of Amer...

President Joe Biden signed a series of sweeping executive orders aiming to cut oil, gas and coal emissions to tackle climate change. Biden said he wants the U.S. to once again lead the global response to the climate crisis, a sharp departure from his predecessor. White House correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has the story.

at 7:00 am NPR One way to understand the capricious nature of life at Voice of America and its federal parent agency over the last seven months would have been to witness two men standing across a foosball table from each other, twisting knobs and shouting in the empty cubicles of the Spanish-language service. Every day last summer, a senior agency adviser, Dan Hanlon, and an aide spent hours playing in offices abandoned for the pandemic. Their new CEO, Michael Pack, had side...

Liz DyeJanuary 26, 2021 02:34 PM Michael Pack - Wikimedia Commons Just moments after being sworn in, President Joe Biden demanded the resignation of Michael Pack, the Bannon ally Trump dispatched to the United States Agency for Global Media, the parent agency of Voice of America and our other international radio networks, with the mission of murdering them dead. And not a moment too soon! During Packs disastrous tenure, he systematically gutted the senior leadership, tore down the firewall pro...

Housing and Development Newsletter The agency oversees “public service media networks that provide unbiased news and information in countries where the press is restricted,” according to its website. That’s a noble mission, but while the First Amendment’s ironclad press freedom guarantees are the envy of journalists around the globe, laws meant to safeguard the stations’ editorial independence have proven more pliable. Reilly sought to root out what he called pervasive anti-Trump bias...