The criteria for exemptions will be whether a programme furthers or is aligned with US national interests. Read more at ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his heart: immigration, counternarcotics and curbing Chinese influence in the W ...

The Trump administration is working to identify and exempt specific USAID programmes from a sweeping freeze on foreign aid, ...

A 90-day suspension and stop-work order on most U.S. foreign aid has snagged some anti-hunger and agricultural development ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said USAID, which oversees food, emergency relief and health programs in over 100 countries, ...

Marco Rubio’s foreign aid freeze and review asks if it makes America safer, stronger, and more prosperous. The evidence shows ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn ... military aid to Israel and Egypt and emergency food programmes but also said programme administrators and implementors could apply ...

His focus is reporting live news, U.S. and U.K. politics, and world news with attention on ... Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in the Vice ...

Participants in what organizers called the largest ever religious freedom gathering voiced hope that the new U S ...

Donald Trump’s administration started work to shrink USAid’s workforce and align its spending with the government’s priorities.

USAID has an annual budget of more than $40 billion, used to support development, health and humanitarian programmes around ...

In Uganda, millions of schoolchildren have benefitted from a universal education programme backed by the United States. In South Sudan, US assistance has h..