Back during the height of the First Cold War, international shortwave station Radio Moscow broadcast news, views, and programming to the West; all reflecting the views of the Soviet government that ...

A Kansas City area radio station can broadcast Russian state-owned media programming, the type that U.S. intelligence called a “propaganda machine,” for six hours a day through a lease agreement ...

MONTCLAIR, VA. — One female host could be heard crying. Others said their goodbyes, in between conversations that ranged from “Palestinian genocide” and anti-Israeli political discussions to ...

Free speech is worth sacrificing for, said KCXL’s owner Peter Schartel. What about the truth? 1997 Star file photo “You’re listening to Radio Sputnik,’‘ the polished, made-for-radio voice says, ...

A man who runs a little-known, low-budget radio station in suburban Kansas City says he is standing up for free speech and alternative viewpoints when he airs Russian state-sponsored programming in ...

Kansas City, Missouri — As the FBI and other federal agencies look high and low for signs of Russian interference in the 2020 election, Russian propaganda is being transmitted on America's airwaves in ...

Pete Schartel says he fulfilled a childhood dream when he bought his first radio station in 1994. The man responsible for broadcasting Russian state programming in the Kansas City area says he always ...

Radio Sputnik, a propaganda arm of the Russian government, began broadcasting on three Kansas City-area radio stations during prime drive time. KCXL, in Liberty, Mo., carries programming produced by ...

Russian state-funded Sputnik Radio has started its first broadcasts in the Washington, D.C., area, in an effort to reach more Americans with what it calls "alternative news." Sputnik, which says it ...

A U.S. broadcasting company based in Florida is suing the Department of Justice for requiring that the media company register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

When a Washington, D.C.-area radio station owner switched from playing bluegrass music to Russian-sponsored news and opinion last summer, he didn’t expect the U.S. Department of Justice to treat him ...