March 31, 2026
A D.C. federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump's executive order stripping all federal funding from the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio was unconstitutional Tuesday, writing that the order met all three elements of retaliation for protected speech.
November 18, 2025
National Public Radio and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have reached a settlement to keep nearly $36 million in public radio satellite interconnection funds with NPR, as CPB agreed not to implement an executive order requiring it to cut off NPR funding unless ordered to do so by a court.
October 28, 2025
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting threw NPR under the bus and snatched its funding back to appease the president and save its own neck, and it should be blocked from spending that money until NPR's legal challenge has played out, the news outlet told a court.
September 30, 2025
A federal judge got assurances from Corporation for Public Broadcasting lawyers Tuesday that it won't commit $30 million to a new National Public Radio alternative for managing the public radio satellite system for at least the next month as he considers a motion from NPR for an injunction blocking the move indefinitely.
June 23, 2025
A coalition of 20 states and the District of Columbia backed a pair of motions from the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio Inc. seeking pretrial wins in their challenges to President Donald Trump's executive order that purports to revoke their funding, arguing that only Congress can pull that money.
May 27, 2025
National Public Radio and three Colorado stations hit the Trump administration with a lawsuit in D.C. federal court Tuesday, claiming a recent executive order aimed at cutting federal funding is discriminatory and "blatantly unconstitutional."