More than two dozen retired senior US military officers and 22 former US ambassadors are among those telling a federal court that dismantling VOA is "unlawful and unwise," as it helped achieve important foreign policy goals and confirmed America's role as a beacon of democracy and freedom. #SaveVOA

History lesson

RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER have not slowed the Iranian program nearly as much as the JCPOA. We hold diplomacy to much higher standards than bombing. The same people who endlessly complained about the JCPOA "sunsetting" are now happy to delay Iran's bomb by much less. 15/17

“N.W.S. staff will have an impossible task to continue its current level of services,” the NWS leaders write in the letter. “Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.”

Across East Central Europe, Russia "found many long-standing national disputes and a patchwork of conflicting national claims in being; it did not invent them… it has manipulated them ruthlessly to enhance its own monolithic control and to strengthen its chosen instrument of local rule.” — 1951