US Senate Passes Aid, Public Broadcasting Cuts
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Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in the cases against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been fired. Although a reason for the dismissal was not immediately clear, she is also the daughter of James Comey, who is the former director of the FBI and a critic of President Donald Trump.
The process of remote wiping government phones has been slow, employees who used to do work for the agency said.
Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.
The Trump administration is planning to destroy 550 tons of emergency food relief intended for children in impoverished and war-torn regions. The food assistance that was part of the now-defunct USAID program is set to be incinerated on Thursday, The Atlantic reported, citing sources with knowledge of the government’s plans.
As the Trump administration ends USAID's mission, a project to bring water to drought-ridden lands is now in peril. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, William Brangham and producer Molly Knight Raskin traveled to a community in central Kenya to look at the legacy of American foreign aid.
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USAID was a form of soft power that helped to spread democracy to low- and middle-income nations. Now, those same countries could fall under the sway of Russia and China, creating a more volatile world where the number of U.S. allies steadily dwindles.
The United States has reinstated the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding to Pakistan. Sources told ProPakistani that
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Gates called the now-shuttered USAID “the best” of the world's development agencies as Musk called it “beyond repair.”
The U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place,
The U.S. Senate has until July 18 to vote on Trump administration spending cuts, including to USAID. What projects did USAID fund in Indiana?