President Donald Trump said he would pick Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III — who wrote a letter on behalf of his son, a convicted Jan. 6 rioter — to run the U.S.

Following Trump's executive action, two people who pleaded guilty for their actions at the Capitol that day have spoken out against their pardons.

US President Donald Trump defended his decision to grant full pardons to perpetrators of the 6 January Capitol Hill riots in his first full day in office. View on euronews

L. Brent Bozell III, founder of the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center, is Donald Trump’s choice to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the agency that oversees U.S. broadcast entities like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

President Donald Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization, raising concerns about the U.N. agency's ability to fight diseases and respond to emergencies around the globe without its biggest funder.