A career employee at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has reportedly been placed on administrative leave after he refused to carry out firings ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Newsweek has reached out to USAID via email outside of normal working hours.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is not, in the scheme of things, a big part of the federal government. It dispersed $43.8 billion in the last fiscal year. That adds up to just 0.7 percent of the $6.

People who are experiencing urgent humanitarian crises, and who rely on aid for food, water and healthcare, could feel U.S. cuts immediately, experts warn.

The United States Agency for International Development has lifted its pause on all communications with the public, except for those that relate to four executive orders that U.S. President ...

Consistent with President Trump’s Executive Order on Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, Secretary Rubio has paused all U.S. foreign assistance funded by or through the State Department and U.

Donald Trump pledged to create “the greatest sovereign wealth fund of them all.” His advisers think one way to do it is a government agency they bet can help mobilize hundreds of billions from Wall Street.

Dozens of career senior civil servants and foreign service officers have been placed on administrative leave and hundreds of contractors were fired or furloughed, sources said.

Trump’s order to halt all international aid programs has left thousands of workers in limbo and millions of beneficiaries in danger

With their confirmation hearings behind them, the fates of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for health secretary, and Tulsi Gabbard, his pick for director of national intelligence,

The United States has told Zimbabwe to take responsibility for its people's health and urgently take over health programs it immensely contributed towards over the past years.The U.S. government has since the country's independence provided over US$5 billion in humanitarian and development assistance to the Zimbabwean people,

The three-month pause in foreign aid imposed by the new US administration has left the future of numerous civil society, human rights and independent media projects in the Western Balkans in limbo.