Trump overstepped his constitutional authority in freezing Congress’ funding for USAID, judge says
A federal judge says President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in freezing almost all spending on U.S. humanitarian ...
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Pete Hegseth Moves to Replace Military’s Lawyers for Chilling Reason
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is taking aim at the military’s legal system, specifically the judge advocate general’s ...
Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency’s programs gone
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the U.S. Agency ...
U.S. aid cuts could be ‘death sentence’ for Afghan women studying abroad
A group of more than 80 Afghan women who fled the Taliban regime to study in Oman say they are at risk of imminent ...
How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks
Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are ...
Secretary of State Rubio says purge at USAID complete, with 82% of agency’s programs gone
Rubio's announcement in a post on X marked one of his relatively few public comments on what has been a historic shift away ...
Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83 percent of agency’s programs gone
Rubio said he would move the 18 percent of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department.
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How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond the United States
According to a USAID factsheet now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.