When we think of famine, we quickly think of a natural disaster, while there are often political causes as well. A famine ...

Mao Zedong's Great Sparrow Campaign aimed to eliminate pests but led to ecological imbalance and a catastrophic famine.

Chicago has always provided a place for the disenfranchised, whether from the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, or today for those fleeing violence, famine, environmental disasters or ...

The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...

Sudan's civil war is starving millions of civilians, who rely largely on foreign aid that has come from the U.S. more than ...

The spiraling consequences underline the real-world harms from Donald Trump's upending of decades-old U.S. initiatives.

USAID operated largely unnoticed by the US public. The organization is in the public eye and staffers aren't happy. The agency went woke over several years. Now, it could go broke, too.

"How does he know what's going on? He was there for two weeks and he's an expert in USAID? Give me a break," said former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios.