The official federal USAID website was taken down on Tuesday and replaced with a notice placing all direct staff on administrative leave. “On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST ...

Other options had included closures of smaller USAID missions and partial closures of larger ones.Thousands of USAID employees already had been laid off and programs worldwide shut down after ...

Meanwhile, turmoil at USAID has escalated as Trump moves to shut it down, laying off staff and cutting programs. Rubio, now acting USAID administrator, signaled plans to integrate parts of the ...

Then-President John F. Kennedy established the US Agency for International Development, known as USAID, during the Cold War. In the decades since, Republicans and Democrats have fought over the ...

The Trump administration says it's now in control of USAID and has shut down global programs from the previously independent humanitarian aid agency. The Trump administration says it's now in ...

US President Donald Trump and his team are in talks about merging the US Agency for International Development (USAID) with the State Department, aiming to downsize the agency’s workforce for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and billionaire ally Elon Musk moved to eradicate the agency that provides crucial aid that funds education and fights starvation, epidemic and poverty ...