Kari Lake, current adviser to President Donald Trump overseeing the U.S. Agency for Global Media, defended the administration's sweeping changes to Voice of America (VOA) during testimony Wednesday, ...

Layoff notices were sent Friday to 639 employees of Voice of America and the U.S. agency that oversees it.

The layoffs were expected after a top advisor to its parent agency, United States Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake, called for Voice of America to be gutted.