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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says the U.S. launched a decisive and powerful attack on Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen.

The Pentagon says U.S. warships and airstrikes targeted radars and air defense sites, along with drone launch points.

And Houthi rebels say a series of airstrikes hit the capital, Sana'a, today.

It's an escalation against the group that has four months attacked commercial maritime

traffic in the Red Sea.

Trump says the last time an American warship went through the Red Sea was four months ago

and that it was attacked by the Houthis more than a dozen times.

Trump also warned Iran that their support for

huthi terrorists must end immediately, and he says the U.S. will hold them fully accountable.

President Trump is ordering that seven federal agencies be dismantled within a week.

That includes the parent organization that funds Radio Free Asia and Voice of America,

whose journalists showed up to work today to find their studios locked.

And peers Emily Fang has more.

Trump said in an executive order that the seven agencies should be, quote,

eliminated to the maximum extent the law allows.

Among them are agencies which deal with homelessness and labor

mediation, and the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which funds Voice of America, Radio Free Europe,

Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Asia. The agency said it reached a global audience of more than

420 million people a week.

And for decades, these outlets have been some of the only uncensored media easily accessible in authoritarian countries.

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