including agriculture work that wound up supporting poppy farming in Afghanistan. The Trump administration, Musk and the State Department, which now oversees USAID, did not respond to requests for ...

Thousands of USAID employees learned they would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday through a message posted on USAID.gov this week. USAID personnel overseas were ...

Washington — A federal judge on Friday prevented the Trump administration from placing 2,200 employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, on administrative leave ...

As the former commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, has noted, “USAID’s efforts can do as much — over the long term — to prevent conflict as the deterrent effects of ...

A 2015 ProPublica story revealed how USAID wasted $17 billion in Afghanistan, including: $335 million on a diesel-fueled power plant that was so expensive it was underused, $486 million on planes ...

The government’s foremost foreign aid agency is being gutted. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) workforce is being slashed from more than 10,000 employees to fewer than 300 ...

In another example Ernst highlighted, USAID was found to have provided millions of dollars to farmers in Afghanistan in an effort to get them to grow food instead of poppy fields and opium.

Washington — All overseas missions for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, have been ordered to shut down and all staff will be recalled by Friday, multiple sources ...

As of Friday, the second Trump administration is putting almost all employees of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, on leave. Opponents of the move held a rally on ...

The judge also ordered the reinstatement of some 500 USAID workers who had already been put on administrative leave and ordered that no USAID employees should be evacuated from their host ...

The abrupt firing of most staff at the US Agency for International Development — a process the White House put into motion this week — is likely to benefit China on the world stage. "The ...

Scores of career USAID workers are also seeing their lives ... that we usually use to help refugees from places like Syria and Afghanistan," the official added. "We are using these resources ...