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In Colombia, a group with funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development helps employ Venezuelans who fled their country’s authoritarian regime and economic crisis. In Haiti, another program that gets USAID money is ready to distribute millions of tons of bean seeds to farmers and tools for fishermen that would help sustain families amid the country’s widespread hunger, violence and instability. Those programs along with others are part of the complex web of U.S. global assistance that addresses humanitarian needs and helps mitigate migration to the United States and other countries, by helping people become self-sustaining.The Trump administration has excoriated…
Anduril, the defense-tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey, has signed a term sheet to raise capital at a $28 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the matter. The company is planning to raise up to $2.5 billion in the round, said the people who asked not to be named because the details are confidential. The latest funding would double Anduril’s valuation from August. Anduril, the three-time CNBC Disruptor 50 company that ranked No. 2 in 2024, aims to disrupt traditional defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman by developing its own products and selling them to clients, in contrast to the…
Time published its latest cover Friday morning, featuring a striking image of a government leader sitting behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. But it’s not President Donald Trump. It’s Elon Musk, Trump’s supposed right-hand man and the lead of the new Department of Government Efficiency. On the cover, Musk sits smiling and holding a cup of coffee behind the massive desk, flanked by an American flag and the presidential flag. The image is positioned on a bright red background. When asked about the cover Friday at the White House, Trump seemed to take aim at the publication, which…
El primer ministro de Canadá, Justin Trudeau, hizo el viernes sus primeros comentarios en respuesta a las repetidas declaraciones del presidente Donald Trump de que busca anexionarse Canadá y convertirlo en el estado número 51 de Estados Unidos.Trudeau dejó claro que no consideraba que las declaraciones de Trump se hubieran hecho en broma y cree que la anexión es algo que Canadá debe manejar como una amenaza seria.Y cree saber por qué Trump codicia Canadá.“Sugiero que no solo el gobierno de Trump sabe cuántos minerales críticos tenemos, sino que ese puede ser incluso el motivo por el que siguen hablando…
A federal judge on Friday said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000.U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols made the announcement from the bench after a hearing at a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., hours before 2,200 USAID employees were scheduled to be placed on administrative leave beginning at 11:59 p.m. ET Friday.“There is essentially no harm to the government” to pausing its staffing plans, Nichols said when announcing his decision.Nichols, a Trump appointee, said he would be entering a…
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday placing sanctions on the International Criminal Court and pledging “tangible and significant consequences” for those responsible for investigations that threatened the national security of the United States and its allies, including Israel.Here’s an explanation of the court’s mission and why the Trump administration focused its latest executive action on the tribunal.What is the International Criminal Court?The International Criminal Court is the world’s highest criminal court, and is located in The Hague, a global center of international law.The court was set up under a 1998 treaty to prosecute individuals for war crimes, genocide,…
A worker removes the U.S. Agency for International Development sign on their headquarters on Feb. 7, 2025 in Washington, DC.Kayla Bartkowski | Getty ImagesA federal judge on Friday said he would temporarily pause the Trump administration’s plan to place thousands of workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave.About 2,200 USAID employees were set to be placed on leave Friday night at 11:59 p.m. ET, as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shut down the independent government agency.Five hundred USAID workers are already on administrative leave, a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice said in court.Judge Carl Nichols,…
(The Center Square) — Dr. Jeremiah Smith, the director of administrative services at Brentwood Hospital in Shreveport, shared his excitement for a planned Behavioral Health Crisis Center project with the Caddo Parish Commission. In Tuesday’s work session, Smith spoke before the commission to elaborate on the plans for the upcoming facility where 60 jobs will be created and crisis individuals will receive specialized help. The crisis center would give emergency centers in the area the ability to adjust how they handle those suffering from mental health crises. These residents in need of care will be able to go straight to the psychiatric…
President Donald Trump has tapped Vice President J.D. Vance to broker a potential sale of TikTok to a U.S.-based entity before the most recent ban extension elapses in April, according to two people familiar with the arrangement. In the latest chapter of the TikTok saga — which began in 2020 with Trump and culminated in the app going dark for a few hours last month — the president selected Vance, along with National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, to oversee a congressionally mandated potential deal between Chinese-based owner ByteDance and an American entity.The White House negotiators will have their work cut out…
Hims & Hers is facing scrutiny from lawmakers over an advertisement for its weight loss offerings that’s slated to run during the Super Bowl on Sunday.Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan., wrote a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday expressing concerns over an “upcoming advertisement” that “risks misleading patients by omitting any safety or side effect information when promoting a specific type of weight loss medication.”The Hims & Hers ad, which the company released online in late January, is called “Sick of the System” and sharply criticizes the $160 billion weight loss industry. It…