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 ...

Dien Luong is a visiting fellow with the media, technology and society program of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and a doctoral student in communications and media at the University ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development announced Tuesday night that almost all direct hires around the world will be placed on administrative leave this week. The move was announced on the ...

Gilbride pointed out that the freeze of funds also put USAID contracting officers on the hook, as they bore legal liability for the payment of funds that the government had frozen. Gilbride argued ...

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 ...

Senate Democrats are plotting to retaliate against the Trump administration after attempts to restructure or possibly close the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides ...

This is a really hellish landscape to be inhabiting. And maybe paradigmatic among all of it is the shutdown of USAID. I cannot overstate the extent of the damage that has been done by shutting ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

“These are lies coming from Russian media,” wrote Ben Stiller about a video posted on X alleging USAID spent $4 million to send the actor on a highly-publicized visit to Ukraine after the ...

As of early February, it remains too soon to know how this shake-up will end up. It may be paused or ultimately undone such that USAID will continue to function. But eliminating or even shrinking ...