Author, educator and humanitarian Elie Wiesel was born in Romania and was deported to Auschwitz with his family as a teenager. Upon his liberation, he migrated to France before moving to New York, and ...

Learn about Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning author of Night. After his internment at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and liberation from Buchenwald, Wiesel became a ...

The board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1968 to oversee the federal government’s investment in public TV and radio, formally voted ...

The nonprofit institution that provided significant funding for PBS and NPR is disbanding after nearly 60 years in operation. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — created by Congress in 1967 — ...

Executives debated whether to allow the corporation to lie dormant after federal funding ended last year, but decided against it. By Benjamin Mullin The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which ...

Congress clawed back more than $1 billion in funding for the corporation in July after President Donald Trump said neither NPR nor PBS "presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal" of news. The ...

WASHINGTON — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which helped fund NPR, PBS and many local radio and TV stations — is officially shutting down, months after Congress passed spending cuts that ...

PBS will premiere separate programs on science and foreign affairs next weekend after shutting the doors on its Saturday and Sunday breaking newscasts because of the federal government's cut of $1.1 ...