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Richard Gere answers to questions during a meeting with media in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, June 4, 2026, on the sidelines of the launch of a joint initiative on migration by the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights and The Gere Foundation. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

White House pushes back on Richard Gere’s USAID comments

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

Health workers tend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara Treatment Center in Ituri, Congo, Thursday, June 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, file)

Blaming Trump for the latest outbreak of Ebola is absurd

By Max Primorac

The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington, March 9, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GAO faults State, USAID for poor oversight of $1.2 billion China counter-influence effort

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump walks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 20, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

U.S. to set up 12 regional disaster response hubs as it consolidates emergency humanitarian aid

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Agency for International Development worker Juliane Alfen gets a hug from a former USAID worker after retrieving her personal belongings from USAID's headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Tearful workers clear desks as Trump cleans house at USAID

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

United States Agency for International Development, or USAID contract worker Priya Kathpal, right, and Taylor Williamson, left, who works for a company doing contract work for USAID, carry signs outside the USAID headquarters in Washington, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Lawsuit describes Musk’s DOGE teams overseeing the killing of hundreds of USAID programs abroad

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, shakes hands with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves during a joint news conference at the presidential palace in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Rubio will face questions about a deal to deport Americans and USAID turmoil

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

The flag of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, flies in front of the USAID office in Washington, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

USAID spent funds on DEI, transgender initiatives, terrorist groups

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

USAID’s humanitarian aid, programs invite onslaught of scrutiny and overtures to action under Trump

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

A man walks past boxes of USAID humanitarian aid at a warehouse at the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 21, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

How USAID grew from war relief to a global humanitarian mission

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Elon Musk, right, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai arrive before the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Democrats dismiss Musk-led push to shut down USAID as ‘plainly illegal’

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

USAID humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela is displayed for the media at a warehouse next to the Tienditas International Bridge on the outskirts of Cucuta, Colombia, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

USAID staffers told to stay out of Washington headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to close it

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., reacts to supporters as she campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at an American Federation of Teachers Union rally in Cincinnati Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)

USAID documents cite Hillary Clinton in chaos of Afghan aid

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee overseeing the USAID spending in Afghanistan, told The Washington Times that he first learned of the fund during a heated exchange with the agency's top official in the region last week and immediately thought, "Something here doesn't smell right." (Associated Press)

Rep. Jason Chaffetz questions $175 million USAID ‘slush fund’ for Afghans

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Kremlin demand stops USAID work in Russia

By Bradley Klapper - The Washington Times

USAID’s role in covert work questioned

Associated Press