Panicked USAID Workers Grapple with Defunding of Humanitarian Efforts: 'People Will Starve, Babies Will Die' (Exclusive)
Abandoned, without a job and with an uncertain return home — that’s the scenario for a multitude of overseas staff doing the ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF: The world's richest men take on the world's poorest children
The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the U.S. Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of ...
A government shutdown could be coming on March 14— and DOGE is a key factor
Democrats say the Trump administration's moves to reshape the federal government without congressional input make reaching a ...
Where the fight over USAID’s future stands
The future of the government’s foreign assistance agency hangs in the balance after a federal judge temporarily paused the Trump administration’s plan to place thousands of employees on leave Friday ...
Inside USAID’s undoing
As Marocco and his DOGE entourage dug through USAID’s books, the foreign aid freeze’s effect was reverberating across the ...
Opinion
This week, Trump shut down USAID. Here’s why China is cheering.
The U.S. decision to shut down USAID has been widely criticized as a strategic victory for China, allowing it to expand its economic and political dominance unchecked.
How USAID freeze could be the most catastrophic for women and girls
In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, where USAID oversees services including HIV prevention and treatment, girls and women ...
In Trump’s actions, opponents see more than cuts — they see a constitutional crisis
As the White House ignores congressional mandates, the conflict raises questions at the heart of the nation’s founding ...
USDA freezes farmer funding for some programs, conservation contracts
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen some funding for farmers as it goes through a sweeping review, despite assurances from the Trump administration that programs helping farmers would not be ...
Trump is gutting an agency that his daughter once championed
President Donald Trump is eagerly dismantling an agency that was once championed by his daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka ...
Donald Trump shunned Project 2025 as a candidate, but is adopting its ideas in office
On the presidential campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump consistently distanced himself from Project 2025, a conservative ...
Judge blocks Trump administration from placing 2,200 USAID employees on leave at midnight
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from orchestrating its plan to place more than 2,000 USAID employees on ...