Essay: As Trump tries to slash US foreign aid, here are three common myths many Americans mistakenly believe about it
Scholar JOANNIE TREMBLAY-BOIRE separates, in an article first published on The Conversation, fact from fiction when it comes to US foreign aid…
Trump aides defend his Gaza takeover proposal in face of global condemnation
Washington DC, US/Paris, France Reuters President Donald Trump’s top aides staunchly defended his proposal for the US to take over war-ruined Gaza and create a “Riviera of the Middle East” after relocating Palestinians elsewhere. A longtime New York property developer, Trump drew rebukes on Wednesday from world powers Russia, China and Germany, which said it […]
Rubio says US will study “very generous” El Salvador offer on jails
San Jose, Costa Rica Reuters US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday called an offer by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to house dangerous criminals from the United States in his country’s jails “very generous” and said the Trump administration would have to study it. Rubio made the comment at a news conference in […]
Rubio tells Panama to end China’s influence of canal or face US action
Panama City, Panama Reuters US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday warned Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino that Washington will “take measures necessary” if Panama does not immediately take steps to end what President Donald Trump sees as China’s influence and control over the Panama Canal. Mulino, after the talks with the top US […]
Essay: How non-profits abroad can fill gaps when the US Government cuts off foreign aid
In an article first published on The Conversation, SUSAN APPE, a scholar of foreign aid, looks at the disruption to US aid and how locally based organisations can respond and adapt…
Hundreds of USAID internal contractors put on leave, terminated amid US freeze on global aid
Washington DC, US Reuters Hundreds of internal contractors working for the US Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after US President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid worldwide. The furloughs come even as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued overnight an […]
Rubio vows to put State Department at core of Trump foreign policymaking
Washington DC, US Reuters Secretary of State Marco Rubio began his tenure as the top US diplomat on Tuesday by pledging to keep his department at the heart of US foreign policymaking and execute what he said was President Donald Trump’s aim of promoting peace through strength. Ending Russia’s war in Ukraine would be official […]
Trump cabinet: Top level nominees represent an unusual slice of American religious life
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports that Trump’s cabinet selection includes everyone from pastors to Catholic converts to one nominee who credits their spiritual rebirth to a book by a Swiss psychiatrist…
Trump taps loyalists with few qualifications for top jobs
Reuters US President-elect Donald Trump chose loyalists with little experience for several key cabinet positions on Wednesday, stunning some allies and making clear that he is serious about reshaping – and in some cases testing – America’s institutions. Trump’s choice of congressman Matt Gaetz, 42, for US attorney general, America’s top law enforcement officer, was […]
American Jews say making daylight saving time permanent threatens morning prayer
RNS American Jews say they were blindsided by the US Senate’s lightning-fast passage of a bill to make daylight saving time year-round and intend to fight it. The Sunshine Protection Act, which passed the Senate on 15th March, will make it nearly impossible for Jews to pray communally in the morning, Jewish advocates say, and […]