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President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. “ownership” of the ...

ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have ...

In Washington, many conservatives are cheering the Musk-led DOGE’s gutting of USAID as an example of how it is possible to ...

Other diplomats across the continent are sending similar cables to the secretary of state to try to maintain lifesaving aid ...

5:30 p.m. EST, Feb. 7 Judge Carl Nichols prevented Trump from placing 2,200 USAID staff on leave while a lawsuit from labor ...

USAID announced that all "direct-hire personnel" will be placed on leave with some exceptions for those on "mission-critical ...

Young staffers from Musk’s government-efficiency initiative gained access to sensitive information to cap a weeklong effort that puts the aid agency’s fate in question. With the headquarters of the US ...

Marocco held several national security positions during the first Trump administration, including at USAID, where he tried to ...

The move is the latest action in a jarring broadside against America’s foreign aid architecture that has followed President ...

In its first two weeks, President Donald Trump’s administration has made significant changes to the U.S. Agency for ...