Ellen Knickmeyer

The Trump administration is putting USAID staffers on leave worldwide and firing at least 1,600

February 23, 2025 at 9:19 p.m.

The Trump administration said Sunday that it is eliminating 2,000 positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and placing all but a fraction of other staffers worldwide on leave.

U.S. President Joe Biden boards Marine One at Moffett Airfield in Mountain View, Calif., Thursday, May 9, 2024. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden administration says Israel鈥檚 use of US arms likely violated international law, but evidence is incomplete

May 10, 2024 at 1:08 p.m.

Israel鈥檚 use of U.S-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law, the Biden administration found in a new report.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivers her speech at the U.S embassy to France, ahead of the Global Climate Finance conference, Thursday, June 22, 2023 in Paris. World leaders, heads of international organizations and activists are gathering in Paris for a two-day summit aimed at seeking better responses to tackle poverty and climate change issues by reshaping the global financial system. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool)

China formally protests Biden鈥檚 depiction of its leader as an out-of-touch “dictator”

June 22, 2023 at 12:37 p.m.

China said Thursday it had registered a formal protest over President Joe Biden’s reference to Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a “dictator,” while Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stressed the critical...

This image provided by Dr. Mohamed Eisa shows Dr. Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman, a Sudan-born American citizen, left, posing for a photo with Dr. Mohamed Eisa. Sulieman was the second American killed in Sudan after battles between two rival Sudanese commanders erupted in Khartoum and turned the capital city into a war zone. (Mohamed Eisa via AP)

A powerhouse US doctor slain in Sudan, “killed for nothing”

April 30, 2023 at 12:22 p.m.

American doctor Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman kept working in Sudan as long as he could after fighting engulfed the capital. He ventured outside as explosions shook homes, to treat Khartoum's wounded,...

FILE – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, July 21, 2022. U.S. officials say they have little fear that China would attack Pelosi’s plane if she flies to Taiwan. But the House Speaker would be entering one of the world’s hottest spots where a mishap, misstep or misunderstanding could endanger her safety. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

U.S. military making plans in case Nancy Pelosi travels to Taiwan

July 27, 2022 at 9:49 a.m.

SYDNEY (AP) — Nancy Pelosi hasn’t said if she’s going to Taiwan, but if she does she’d be entering one of the world’s hottest and most contentious spots. While U.S....

FILE – President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about Intel’s announcement to invest in an Ohio chip making facility, at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Jan. 21, 2022. Biden is having trouble fulfilling his promises to the rest of the world because of political challenges at home. Although he’s made pledges or reached deals on climate change, taxes and pandemic relief, legislation for all of those issues has stalled on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden鈥檚 global promises held back by politics at home

July 24, 2022 at 9:25 a.m.

Soon after taking office, President Joe Biden went to State Department headquarters to tell the rest of the world that the United States could be counted on again after four...

A Ukrainian soldier walks past debris of a burning military truck, on a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine’s capital Saturday, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

West unleashes SWIFT bans, more crushing penalties on Russia

February 27, 2022 at 3:38 p.m.

The United States and European nations agreed Saturday to impose the most potentially crippling financial penalties yet on Russia over its unrelenting invasion of Ukraine, going after the central bank...

EXPLAINER: A look at US steps taken, and not, against Russia

February 24, 2022 at 7:16 p.m.

U.S. President Joe Biden hit Russia with some of the broadest and toughest financial penalties that the world's biggest economy can muster on Thursday, hours after President Vladimir Putin launched...

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U.S.: Over 130,000 Russian troops now staged outside Ukraine

February 13, 2022 at 3:13 p.m.

Ukraine's president urged calm amid intensified warnings of a possible Russian invasion within days, saying he had yet to see convincing evidence of that, even as the U.S. reported Sunday...

Climate activist Vanessa Nakate speaks at ...

Frustrations grow as marchers demand faster climate action

November 6, 2021 at 2:31 p.m.

Tens of thousands of climate activists marched Saturday through the Scottish city hosting the U.N. climate summit, physically close to the global negotiators inside but separated by a vast gulf...

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