The vast majority of foreign aid administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development goes through middlemen, international aid agencies or U.S.-based private companies that then distribute ...

President-elect Donald Trump made numerous false claims during a wide-ranging Tuesday news conference in Florida, many of ...

January 25 - Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith is put to death by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution to be carried out using that method. Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his ...

Federal prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison term for former New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menéndez following his ...

The U.S. charged Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and his Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary-turned-rebel-group largely ...

The foreign secretary has used his first major speech of 2025 to go after Putin’s aggression in tearing up the world order and back Trump’s demands for significant increases in defence spending ...

We explore the effect of (big) shocks on the allocation of (bilateral) aid using natural disasters as natural experiments. We find that aid commitment statistically significantly increases following ...

The U.S. has long been one of the world’s largest donors of foreign aid. But in recent years, its effectiveness has been ...

Gillian Caldwell, who led humanitarian climate efforts during the Biden administration, argues that continued investment can ...

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will divert $95 million in military aid allocated for Egypt to Lebanon, which faces ...

FCDO receives a sudden £540 million top-up, averting the embarrassment of a 17-year low in spending on overseas programs.

Israel, evidence of Western aid dollars enriching terrorist organizations and operatives in Gaza has grown. The United Nations and donor countries have been slow to accept this evidence or make ...