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Bill Moyers, Presidential Aide and Veteran of Public TV, Dies at 91 Before becoming known as an unusual breed of television correspondent and commentator, he had a long association with President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Real America’s Voice: How a tiny pro-Trump news network founded by a convicted criminal got so close to the president The channel covers Trump the president while doing business with a Trump company.

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Glenn, the White House correspondent, is dating Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, one of Trump’s most loyal allies and Gina Loudon, president of programming and one of its top personalities, was a former advisor to Trump’s 2020 campaign and co-chair of the political group Women for Trump…

But two former employees told us that RAV management theatened to dock the pay of a 23-year-old meteorologist because she posted a video on her personal social media accounts that went viral. Sigg argued the video should have been on the company’s platforms where it could earn revenue…

Some staff say they like working for Sigg. One described him as “the sweetest guy in the world when he was in the mood” and recalled his habit of treating the office to lunch. Other employees also said they got along well with Sigg and that he regularly praised staffers for a job well done…

Sigg pled guilty to at least four charges — for driving under the influence, using a fake ID, contempt of court, and violating probation…

Over the course of his life Sigg has been charged with assault, harassment, drug possession, driving under the influence, domestic violence, and burglary in Colorado, according to arrest records from the Colorado Bureau of Investigations…

Real America’s Voice is the brainchild of Robert Sigg, a Colorado media entrepreneur with a checkered legal past. In 2006, Sigg was convicted of federal mortgage fraud in a multi-million dollar scheme. He was sentenced to time served and ordered to pay $141,000 in restitution to Washington Mutual…

RAV airs back-to-back-to-back shows from three of the most influential rightwing commentators in the country. Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, and Jack Posobiec all stream their podcasts on the channel…

RAV declined to comment on Fortune’s “absurd accusations.”…

This poses unique ethical questions: “I think it’s unethical for a president to hold control over large media platforms,” said Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer for former President George W. Bush. “I think the press should be separated from the state.”…

As a media outlet it covers Trump the president, but it is also a content provider for Trump the businessman’s company…

RAV—once an also-ran to Fox News and Newsmax in the conservative news business—is now in the enviable position of being the key link between Trump’s company and his most prominent boosters in the media...

All of RAV’s shows are broadcast on Truth Social and its sister streaming platform Truth+. Both are part of the burgeoning tech holdings of the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), whose largest shareholder is Trump…

For this story, Fortune spoke to six former employees who worked for RAV’s parent company and its subsidiaries and we contacted eight police departments and nine courthouses to obtain police reports and court rulings…

The founder of RAV has an extensive criminal record, for instance…

Remember the reporter who asked Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office why he wasn’t wearing a suit? That was Brian Glenn of Real America’s Voice, a pro-Trump conservative news channel that, a few years ago, no one had ever heard of.

Fortune decided to investigate RAV. What we found is fascinating…

Fighting Russia with renewable energy As the Western defence alliance has all but died under the new US administration, Europe must deal with an increasing likelihood of having to face Russia in the battlefield.

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USAID canceled contracts worth $32.7m bound for HIV charity treating 350,000 patients—now the lives of 10,000 children are on the line In an exclusive interview, Trish Karlin of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation discusses the impact of $32.7m worth of contracts being terminated by USAID.

Of course, diseases don’t stay inside one far-away country …

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Instantly, treatment for 350,000 HIV patients—including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women—was thrown into disarray. “Large numbers of people are going to die” if the funding is not restored, according to Trish Karlin, EVP for business development and external affairs at EGPAF...

The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation was, however, doing HIV prevention work in the region of Gaza in Mozambique.

All that funding was cut by DOGE...

According to correspondence and charitable funding records seen by Fortune, and interviews with staff responsible, there were no condoms — zero, none — being sent to the war-torn Middle East territory controlled by terrorists...

It turns out that what actually happened was Musk’s DOGE cut $33 million in funding for HIV prevention for Africa.

350,000 people were on anti-HIV meds, funded by that program.

Many, possibly all, are now likely to die.

We all know that when Elon Musk and the White House said they found “$50 million to fund condoms for Gaza” they turned out to be wrong.

But what really happened?

Fortune decided to investigate…

I cannot wait to see the King's face back on the US dollar.

AI search engines have an accuracy issue AI search engines are confidently wrong over 60% of the time when citing news, a recent study says.

AI search engines are confidently wrong more than half the time when they cite sources, study finds fortune.com/2025/03/18/a...

Good news: Public investment is remarkably effective Government investment is frequently derided as wasteful and ineffective.

Good news: Public investment is remarkably effective
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After repeated claims of taking over Greenland, the Trump administration is now asking Denmark for extra eggs amid shortage The U.S. Department of Agriculture has formally requested Denmark ramp up egg exports as American poultry farms battle the bird flu.

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Can confirm that Death of Stalin is a must-watch.

Growing Trump-Putin detente could spell trouble for the Arctic There are growing concerns that Russia and the US could be aiming to carve up Arctic mineral resources.

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