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The United States announced a $1.2 million aid package Friday to help support Ukrainian news outlets ahead of presidential elections later this month. "Members of the media in Ukraine have faced serious challenges and dangers over the past several months," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said. SNIP--------------- Announced on the eve of World Press Freedom Day, the funding from the US Agency for International Development "will help to protect vulnerable journalists while also advancing press freedoms and domestic governance in Ukraine," Harf said.

(CNSNews.com) - On the first day of the “shutdown” of the federal government, when members of the U.S. Senate were going to the well of their house to point out that the shutdown would prevent the National Institutes of Health from starting clinical trials for cancer patients and others facing possibly terminal illnesses, the administration was giving $445,000,000 to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to the Daily Treasury Statement. That means PBS NewsHour, National Public Radio and Sesame Street got a taxpayer subsidy during the shutdown, but not would-be cancer patients at the NIH. The $445 million the Treasury...