Gaza, Hamas and USAID
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Thousands of federal employees have lost their jobs since the start of Trump’s term. Fired USAID employee Kathleen Borgueta joins The Weekend to discuss her organization “Pivoting Parents” and why terminated federal workers are bringing their kids to Congress.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. dismissed two lawsuits on Friday aimed at blocking the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), delivering a major legal win for the White House in its broader effort to consolidate foreign aid operations under the State Department.
A Towson-based government contracting company has been sued by three people who said they weren’t paid for their work on USAID programs abroad.
Key concerns were raised by USAID in vetting process days before $30 million grant was awarded to US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund, documents show.
Nearly $10 million in birth control intended for economically disadvantaged women will be burned, as ordered by the Trump Administration.
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The Trump administration dismantled USAID, causing distribution disruptions. Now some has expired, and it is set to be destroyed due to protocol.
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.
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.
Substantial resources directed to development assistance for health1 together with other forms of investments in health have contributed to improvements of some key global health outcomes. From 2000 to 2019,
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Trump administration to destroy abortion-inducing materials bought through Biden USAID contracts
The Trump administration has made a preliminary decision to destroy abortion-inducing materials that were purchased through now-terminated contracts under the Biden administration. A spokesperson at the State Department confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the abortifacient birth control commodities,