By Simon Lewis, Leah Douglas and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) was ...

The Trump administration is working to identify and exempt specific USAID programmes from a sweeping freeze on foreign aid, ...

The criteria for exemptions will be whether a programme furthers or is aligned with US national interests. Read more at ...

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has ordered an immediate halt to work on virtually all existing foreign aid programmes ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have hoped to spend his first trip abroad focused exclusively on issues close to his ...

Marco Rubio’s foreign aid freeze and review asks if it makes America safer, stronger, and more prosperous. The evidence shows ...

The United States froze virtually all foreign aid on Friday. Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, sent an internal memo days ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development is the world's largest foreign aid agency, spending more than $40 billion in ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... aid groups around the world. In a statement late Tuesday, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said Rubio had provided waivers for food assistance as well ...

Exemptions include humanitarian assistance such as core life-saving medicine, medical services, food, shelter and subsistence ...

His focus is reporting live news, U.S. and U.K. politics, and world news with attention on ... Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after being sworn in by Vice President JD Vance in the Vice ...