Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other administration officials had pledged to spare emergency food programs and other life-and-death aid even as the Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department ...

Why lawmakers are backing away from a bill to stop bid-rigging; and fans hope to spot Gordon Ramsay at a Narragansett ...

Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee and his wife argued that the world doesn't need the US to be the sole source of aid funding.

I just yelled at my aging, cancer-surviving mother,” she said. “I am so mad. I don’t understand how she voted for Trump.

The rationale was to address "mismanagement, fraud, and misaligned priorities." Former USAID official Jeremy Konyndyk said ...

There are cuts to pandemic preparedness, even though we are barely emerging from the Covid pandemic, and it was less than 10 years ago that we experienced the largest epidemic of Ebola.

For the latest episode of our podcast series, Adva Saldinger sits down with Elissa Miolene and David Ainsworth to discuss the top global development stories from the past week.

Foreign assistance offers collective benefit — to security interests, humanitarian values, and public health. But it is also ...

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has faced significant funding cuts under the current administration. In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 83% of USAID ...

WASHINGTON — A billionaire Palestinian-American developer accused by Oct. 7 victims’ families of “aiding and abetting” Hamas ...

Lawmakers and food manufacturers are pushing USAID to unfreeze funding for ready-to-use therapeutic food to fight ...

Last month, the government told Congress it plans to “abolish” the agency entirely, moving some of its humanitarian, global health, and “limited national security” programs to the State Department.