Mass surveillance. Pre-emptive military strikes in the Middle East. Shipping people to domestic and foreign prisons. Citing national security to hide information from the courts. Labeling people as "terrorists" as a political and legal strategy.

The videoconference marked the end of USAID's 63-year run as an independent agency before its absorption into the State Department.

Barack Obama and George W. Bush have come together to speak out against what they are calling a “colossal mistake” by President Donald Trump. That mistake? Well, through DOGE, the Trump administration cut 90 percent of the US Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts.

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.