M aurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in the cases against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been fired. Although a reason for the dismissal was not immediately clear, she is also the daughter of James Comey, who is the former director of the FBI and a critic of President Donald Trump.

Even before funding cuts in 2025, USAID and IAF were struggling to support Latin America. Now, the region’s nonprofit sector reckons with a crisis of existence. In 2023 and 2024, USAID allocated around $1.

Amid President Trump's aid freeze, nearly half of the 1,100 metric tons of emergency food rations in Dubai will expire and be destroyed. A portion was saved after a deal was struck with the U.N. World Food Programme.

The end of USAID will also likely result in around 200,000 children becoming paralyzed in some manner, as the program distributed polio vaccines. Around 160,000 could also die from malaria because of the program ending.

Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.

As the Trump administration ends USAID's mission, a project to bring water to drought-ridden lands is now in peril. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, William Brangham and producer Molly Knight Raskin traveled to a community in central Kenya to look at the legacy of American foreign aid.

The process of remote wiping government phones has been slow, employees who used to do work for the agency said.

Bill Gates said the effects of President Donald Trump's USAID cuts are "devastating" but can be prevented. The Gates Foundation, where Gates is board chair, has worked extensively with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Gates' comments come a week after he said the aid rollbacks have already led to deaths.

Nearly a million pounds of food meant for children is sitting unused in a warehouse. Here's what the Trump Administration plans to do with it.