An UN spokesperson announced Tuesday that USAID funding cancellations have resulted in the closure of a UN human rights program intended on helping torture victims and the families of missing ...

USAID money only funded the Ahlan Simsim Iraq early childhood development program. This program did include localized content which leveraged the existing "Ahlan Simsim" TV show. However ...

Gary Sargent and his wife Raquel Salinas weren't surprised when they were fired Friday from their USAID jobs, but they are ...

Speaking to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2024, U.S. President Donald Trump made various claims about what he ...

I joined the military and later USAID because I believed in the American spirit and knew we need both hard and soft power to ...

During a news conference on Feb. 5, 2025, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had set aside $20 million in funding ...

Turning our backs on the world never makes us stronger, and the decimation of USAID threatens to prove that, former ...

That filing suggested that Rubio, who was named acting head of USAID last month ... a version of “Sesame Street” to be broadcast in Iraq. The Trump administration has been given a Monday ...

But is there a baby in the bathwater? My own experience with USAID was in Iraq some 15 years ago when I led two Provincial Reconstruction Teams there for the State Department. My so-called team of ...

At Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, congressional Democrats made a concerted effort to bring ...

Most of Sargent's time in USAID was related to efforts in Iraq and northern Syria, during and after the ISIS threat forced people from their homes. He did eight rotations in and out of Iraq ...