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

As a U.S. senator, Marco Rubio supported foreign aid and praised the U.S. Agency for International Development, aka USAID. Since he became secretary of state and USAID’s acting ...

BRUSSELS — The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is facing a crisis after the United States halted dozens of aid grants despite an emergency waiver meant to keep food assistance flowing. The freeze ...

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 ...

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 ...