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The charts below explain the cuts’ effects. In 2023 America spent $80bn on foreign aid, including money for humanitarian assistance, development and healthcare. Americans think that they are more generous than they are.
After significantly cutting America’s humanitarian aid operations earlier this year, the Trump administration now has a surplus of food that it can’t use. What will become of it? The White House has a simple plan: incinerate it.
The Senate could move forward as soon as Tuesday on a request from the White House to claw back billions in funds for international aid and public broadcasting as Congress faces a Friday deadline to act.
Ninety-three Rite Aid pharmacies in Pennsylvania will close between Tuesday and July 31. The prescription files from all 93 stores will be transferred to CVS. In May, Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy for a second time to pursue “a strategic and value-maximizing sale process for substantially all of its assets.”
Rite Aid has recently filed additional documents in court, indicating that more locations are on the chopping block. Here’s what we know, and the full list of announced closures.
The aid group accused Ethiopia’s government of failing to properly investigate the slayings, which took place in the Tigray region in 2021. A New York Times investigation found that Ethiopian soldiers were responsible.