On a brutally hot day in 2007, I was in a helicopter flying across Pakistan. Only two years earlier, a devastating earthquake had caused mass destruction in Kashmir and considerable damage in ...

If USAID is America's 'soft power', shuttering USAID is 'soft weakness'. There's bipartisan support for real reform and innovation, but a chaotic dismantling of a $40 billion agency will cause ...

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 ...

Trump knew what he was doing when he said his goal was to "Make America Great Again." He didn't say he'd make Afghanistan or Africa great again. USAID seems to be trying to do that. And it's doing ...

Even if some foreign aid resumes after the 90-day suspension ordered by President Donald Trump, many USAID-backed projects focus on areas he has derided as ideological: climate change ...

Experts interviewed by NBC this week warned that the elimination of USAID would weaken U.S. in South America and Africa, and allow Russia and China to exert more influence on other nations.

BRASILANDIA, Brazil (AP) — The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development will deliver a major blow to efforts including humanitarian assistance in Colombia, conservation ...

The move follows Trump’s push to merge USAID with the U.S. Department of State as part of his “America First” agenda, which critics argue would significantly impact global humanitarian ...

However, USAID provides essential services to the international community — and this benefits all Americans. USAID feeds starving people, tracks epidemic diseases, teaches sanitation practices ...

Records now reveal that both Melania and Ivanka used thousands of dollars from USAID to fund their pet projects during the first term. USAID helped Melania Trump's Be Best program and Ivanka Trump ...

Colombia has long been the largest recipient of U.S. foreign assistance in South America. Recent USAID money has supported emergency humanitarian aid to more than 2.8 million Venezuelans who fled ...