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The flag of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, flies in front of the USAID office in Washington, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

USAID workers scramble for answers after President Donald Trump pulls almost all of them off the job worldwide

February 5, 2025 at 2:30 p.m.

U.S. aid workers around the world scrambled Wednesday to pack up households or take children out of school under a sudden Trump administration order that pulled almost all of them...

FILE – Solar panels system funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are seen in the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Majdal Anjar, eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Nov. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

USAID direct hires put on leave worldwide, except those deemed essential

February 4, 2025 at 9:30 p.m.

The Trump administration is placing U.S. Agency for International Development direct-hire staffers around the world on leave, except those deemed essential.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, shakes hands with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves during a joint news conference at the presidential palace in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

President Donald Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries

February 4, 2025 at 5:52 p.m.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is exploring whether he can send American criminals jailed in the “most severe cases” to be incarcerated in other countries, a day after...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, Frank Alexis Abrego, Panama’s Minister of Public Security, center, and Panama’s Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha, watch as people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Marco Rubio says El Salvador has offered to accept deportees from US of any nationality

February 3, 2025 at 9:58 p.m.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting El Salvador on Monday to press a friendly government to do more to meet Trump administration demands for a major crackdown on...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio deplanes at the international airport in Panama Pacifico, Panama, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Panama must reduce Chinese influence around the canal or face possible US action

February 2, 2025 at 2:47 p.m.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Sunday that the Central American ally must immediately reduce Chinese influence over the Panama Canal area or...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in the Vice Presidential Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US aid agency is in upheaval during foreign assistance freeze and staff departures

January 31, 2025 at 9:14 a.m.

Trump administration changes have upended the U.S. agency charged with providing humanitarian aid to countries overseas, with dozens of senior officials put on leave, thousands of contractors laid off, and...

FILE – USAID humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela is displayed for the media at a warehouse next to the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

US places dozens of senior aid officials on leave, citing possible resistance to Trump orders

January 27, 2025 at 9:16 p.m.

At least 56 senior officials in the top U.S. aid and development agency were placed on leave Monday amid an investigation into an alleged effort to thwart President Donald Trump’s...

Loyalty tests and MAGA checks: Inside the Trump White House’s intense screening of job-seekers

January 25, 2025 at 1:27 p.m.

Job-seekers hoping to join the new Trump administration are facing a series of intense loyalty tests, with White House screening teams fanning out to government agencies to check for “Make...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken bids farewell to diplomats and staff at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Antony Blinken says he’s worried Trump administration may abandon key Biden foreign policy initiatives

January 17, 2025 at 6:59 p.m.

Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken told The Associated Press that he hopes the incoming Trump administration will press forward with key points in President Joe Biden’s foreign policy, including...

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be Secretary of State, appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Marco Rubio warns China is America’s ‘biggest threat,’ affirms value of NATO alliance

January 15, 2025 at 3:32 p.m.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday painted a dark vision of the consequences of America’s “unbalanced relationship” with China, echoing President-elect Donald Trump’s anti-globalist rhetoric as he vies to be...

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