FIRST ON FOX: The State Department is absorbing the remaining operations and programs U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) runs, upending its function as an independent agency ...

The Trump administration is moving to formally end the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), notifying the remaining employees they will be terminated and the agency will be merged ...

WASHINGTON — The State Department formally announced Friday it is closing the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after the Trump administration prevailed in a federal court case ...

USAID plays a major role in coordinating earthquake assistance. Sign up here. Thousands of USAID staff and Foreign Service officers assigned to the agency learned in an internal memo that all ...

The agency notified Congress of its plan to discontinue any USAID functions that do not align with Trump administration priorities and told USAID staff that it would eliminate all positions not ...

A team was dispatched days later, on Monday. The gutting of USAID has critically weakened the response teams typically deployed within hours by the US to provide support after major natural disasters.

Virtually no one will be spared, not even political appointees, according to two senior USAID officials, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the agency.

“Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago. … Thanks to President Trump, this misguided and fiscally irresponsible era is now over,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said ...

US President Donald Trump's administration announced plans Friday to effectively close the US international development agency USAID, formalising widely-criticised plans to dramatically cut ...

The reorganization will be done by July 1, the State Department said, sounding a death knell for USAID, a multibillion-dollar agency that fought poverty and hunger around the world. The shuttering ...

Last week, a federal judge in Maryland ruled efforts to halt USAID functions were likely unconstitutional, ordering its reinstatement. A federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday ...