On May 20, the U.S. Peace Corps posted a brief statement on its website announcing that the volunteer cohorts scheduled to depart in June for Cameroon and the Kyrgyz Republic were cancelled.

More than 1,000 students volunteered. Stirred by this enthusiastic reaction, two weeks later Kennedy proposed a “Peace Corps of Americans who would work for progress and peace in developing ...

Re: “The Peace Corps is needed more than ever” (May 24, Opinion): I am thankful for the My Take essay by Kathleen M. Corey. Because of all I learned in Peace Corps in Africa, many American ...

We were inspired. Less than two months into his presidency, Kennedy again urged civilians to serve their country as he launched the U.S. Peace Corps proposed in his presidential campaign.

When I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Bucaramanga, Colombia, in 1962, we volunteers lived in a squatter barrio on the city’s edge.

Virginia Pasley and Sandra Jacobs have been friends since they served in the Peace Corps together in Ukraine in 2007. Sandy and her husband Eric lived in Vinnytsia, the capital of the region ...

Into a world cleaved by the Cold War, the Peace Corps was born. Thirty-eight years later, more than 6,500 Peace Corps volunteers are at work. The Cold War is history; the Peace Corps is not ...

The University of Richmond came in at No. 5 on the Peace Corps’ 2025 Volunteer Producing Colleges and Universities list in the top small schools category, according to a UR press release. The ...

On Wednesday, the Corps issued a news release indicating more than 20 parks will be closed at least in part, with some being closed completely. The same day, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff released a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Institute of Peace retook control of its headquarters Wednesday, two days after a federal judge said the firing of its board and employees by Elon Musk’s ...

Washington — A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration's efforts to take over the U.S. Institute of Peace, finding that the moves led by the White House's Department of ...