Under Trump, foreign aid is no longer an ideal. It’s just a deal. Last summer, the Dalai Lama was having a party in Dharamshala for his 90th birthday, and Bethany Morrison, a newly appointed State ...

Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations and health and humanitarian programs around the world.

According to recent analysis, that aid, referred to often as official development assistance, has fallen by between 15 and 22 percent relative to 2023. Simultaneously, global military expenditures ...

A member of the pharmacology department takes inventory of the last boxes of drugs delivered by the now-dismantled United States Agency for International Development (USAID) amid medical supply ...

Earlier this year, after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest bilateral aid program, many observers raised fears that ...

The Trump administration seeks a claw back billions in foreign aid following an "exhaustive review". But officials at USAID say it did not conduct a review of foreign aid programs it has terminated.

International scholarships make up most of the foreign aid to higher education in conflict-affected countries.

The administration has gutted agencies like U.S.A.I.D., and President Trump has denigrated their work as wasteful and rife with fraud. His views on humanitarian assistance have seesawed since he ...

The dismantling of USAID is the culmination of a decade-long realignment of Western approaches to development, inspired by China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The GSEZ Mineral Port in Gabon, one of the ...

Congress allocated $50 billion for initiatives aimed at supporting democracy, scholarship programs, U.S. embassy operations ...