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President Donald Trump's administration has moved to fire nearly all USAID staff, as billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has slashed funding and dismissed contractors ...
After stranding former US Agency for International Development (USAID) workers with devices holding sensitive information, the Trump administration says it will no longer physically collect their ...
Over recent weeks, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been assimilated into the US State Department, most of its funding programmes terminated and most of its staff ...
A warning tape can be seen where a sign for USAID used to be on the now-shuttered office at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 2025. (Photo by ...
More consultants, lower morale, and poor pay — career coaches and consultants predict how the dismantling of USAID will impact the development talent landscape. In the wake of the over 9,500 ...
Salem hasn’t heard an update from USAID or the State Department since then. And she doesn’t know when she will hear an update. Salem and her nonprofit have been on a rough roller-coaster ride ...
Lindsay Brown was working from home in Little Rock, Arkansas, when, during a company meeting in February, her employer said that due to the United States Agency for International Development not ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
This display of what it looks like for America to retreat from a strategically important country was the latest chapter in two months of tumult and recrimination surrounding USAID and foreign aid.
USAID, now shut down, was instrumental in various global initiatives, including forest preservation around the Panama Canal. The agency pioneered the Famine Early Warning System, a crucial tool ...