The U.S. decision to cut off funding for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty came as a surprise for the outlet’s newsroom, a source in the RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service told the Kyiv Independent. “We understood that the U.S. president, to put it mildly, does not like us,” the source said on March 17. “But there is bipartisan […]
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DOGE slashes nearly $1M for alpaca farming in Peru, other questionable grants in latest wasteful spending cut
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Tuesday announced the cancelation of $4.5 million in grants, including one for alpaca farming in Peru, another for reducing social discrimination of recyclers in Bolivia and another for promoting cultural understanding of Venezuelan migrants in Brazil. The Inter-American Foundation, an agency given a $60 million budget to issue […]

