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By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for two weeks.
He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away.
Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away.
Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
By the time Tor Top’s mother was sick with cholera, the nearby clinic had been shuttered for two weeks.
He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away.
Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
He bundled her into a rented canoe and paddled toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away.
Less than halfway into the journey, his mother died.
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The latest obstacle slowing the urgent need to fund pediatric cancer research
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The latest obstacle slowing the urgent need to fund pediatric cancer research | CNN
Nancy Goodman, Executive Director for KidsvCancer.org joins Jake Tapper along with Sammy Ulloa, a childhood cancer survivor.
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December 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The latest obstacle slowing the urgent need to fund pediatric cancer research
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NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis.
Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
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Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
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The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis.
Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social
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A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
A story that should shock our collective conscience: After Trump Cuts to Kenya Food Aid, Children Died of Starvation
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The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid
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Child deaths under 5 believed to be rising for first time in decades
Cuts to development aid from several countries is a key factor, researchers said.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The death rate among children under 5 is expected to grow this year for the first time in the 21st century, researchers say. A key factor, they say, is cuts to U.S. and other foreign aid
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A large ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” was placed on the National Mall on Wednesday morning in direct view of the U.S. Capitol as a vanishing reminder of rapidly eroding rights and an existential threat to the freedom on which America was founded.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
A large ice sculpture of the word “Democracy” was placed on the National Mall on Wednesday morning in direct view of the U.S. Capitol as a vanishing reminder of rapidly eroding rights and an existential threat to the freedom on which America was founded.
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NEW: Trump officials have moved forward with destroying $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID. The contraceptives would've gone to nations in need. State Dept. and USAID documents obtained by @nytimes.com show groups offered to buy them. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials
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September 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
NEW: Trump officials have moved forward with destroying $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID. The contraceptives would've gone to nations in need. State Dept. and USAID documents obtained by @nytimes.com show groups offered to buy them. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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The US Agency for International Development (#USAID) funding has had a crucial role in improving global health.
A new study estimates that USAID programs have saved nearly 92 million lives over past 20 years.
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A new study estimates that USAID programs have saved nearly 92 million lives over past 20 years.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The US Agency for International Development (#USAID) funding has had a crucial role in improving global health.
A new study estimates that USAID programs have saved nearly 92 million lives over past 20 years.
Explore the research ▶️ tinyurl.com/2w2nkvv3
A new study estimates that USAID programs have saved nearly 92 million lives over past 20 years.
Explore the research ▶️ tinyurl.com/2w2nkvv3
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Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell with staffers of the US Agency for International Development.
Bush and Obama fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day | CNN Politics
Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush have delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration in an emotional video farewell with staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Devel...
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June 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush delivered rare open criticism of the Trump administration — and singer Bono held back tears as he recited a poem — in an emotional video farewell with staffers of the US Agency for International Development.
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“Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes of U.S.A.I.D. cuts in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Opinion | The Waste Musk Created
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June 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes of U.S.A.I.D. cuts in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
January 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM