Secretary of State Marco Rubio is adding a new role to his portfolio: acting head of the embattled U.S. Agency for International Development. In recent days, Elon Musk, the ultrawealthy ally of ...

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The State Department has declared several Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, with Department of Government ...

The firings added to doubts about whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the agency’s acting head, supports lifesaving ...

Protesters gathered outside the USAID building in Washington, D.C., after Donald Trump and Elon Musk vowed to shut the agency down.

At the same time Rubio claimed to be in charge of the agency, upwards of 1,000 USAID employees overseas were abruptly cut off from their government-provided equipment, according to independent ...

Senior officials have been blindsided by DOGE’s actions at Treasury and USAID. But the president’s support of the group means ...

What is USAID? Why are President Donald Trump and Elon Musk trying to shut it down. Here's what we know so far.

Elon Musk's "dual roles pose conflicts of interest so obvious that they hardly require explanation," Sen. Richard Blumenthal ...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to explain the department’s plan to purchase $400 ...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling for a response from the U.S. State Department after reports surfaced about $400 million ...

As Elon Musk's DOGE continues to target federal agencies like the Social Security Administration and Internal Revenue Service ...