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As someone with on-the-ground experience with USAID programs in Africa and Eastern Europe, I am appalled by the administration’s slash-and-burn approach to this critical piece our nation’s security ...

The US used to spend more on international development than an y other nation, but with Donald Trump and Elon Musk freezing ...

US President Donald Trump's decision to freeze foreign aid programmes and effectively shut down USAID – the US government ...

"The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America," reads the very first sentence of ...

Human Rights Watch called on Washington to reinstate funding for humanitarian, pro-democracy and independent media projects.

A Burmese refugee with lung problems died after she was discharged from a U.S.-funded hospital on the Myanmar-Thai border ...

Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt said Thursday on Fox News that “permanent Washington [D.C.’s] worst nightmare” has arrived due to the Trump administration’s cuts to government bloating, […] ...

Thursday's lawsuit is the latest legal action seeking to block billionaire Elon Musk's increasing control over wide swaths of ...

They called on Japan and other countries to provide more support, especially for vulnerable people such as women and children.

The White House has canceled government subscriptions to Politico amid state funding accusations Billions of dollars have ...

The Trump Administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn much criticism.