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Rubio orders firings of all USAID staffers overseas to move forward
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered U.S. embassies around the world to move ahead with a directive to fire all ...
Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous people around the world
The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial ...
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USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it
This year, USAID itself sat in ruins ... The State Department said it would find a permanent home for the memorial. Associated Press journalist Ellen Knickmeyer has reported from more than 20 ...
US aid kept many hungry Somali children alive. Now that money is disappearing
The U.S. Agency for International Development once provided 65% of Somalia’s foreign aid. Now that funding is disappearing.
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USAID is going away. Here’s what it’s been doing in South America
“Despite its problems and external limitations (the economic and political crisis), the withdrawal of USAID has provided Bolivia with a high degree of autonomy to develop social control policies, ...
In his own words: Trump said during 2024 campaign he would use military for immigration enforcement
President Donald Trump in recent days has sent thousands of National Guard troops and 700 active duty Marines to quell Los ...
What’s targeted in Trump’s request for $9.4 billion in budget cuts from Congress
President Donald Trump is looking to cancel $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress. That’s just a sliver of ...
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Memorial wall to fallen USAID staffers is removed from the agency’s former building
Individual tiles on the wall honor 99 USAID staffers killed in the line ... did respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press, saying in an email that the memorial was moved to ...