‘A secret from the neighborhood’ Wilkinsburg mayor discovers local Rite Aid is set to close
From the outside, the Rite Aid pharmacy located on Penn Avenue in Wilkinsburg looks like business as usual, but inside shelves are empty. Channel 11 News learned that the location is set to close on ...
Black Church Already Selling Proud Boys-Style Merch After Winning Trademark
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church is already selling Proud Boys-style merchandise after winning the extremist ...
The New York Times5d
Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Has Created Chaos. Here Is What to Know.
A map showing countries that have been affected by President Trump’s decision to halt foreign aid. Patients were told to leave a U.S.-funded refugee hospital. Most of the soup kitchens that feed ...
Wall Street Journal3d
How Much the U.S. Spent on Foreign Aid—and Where It Went
The U.S. was the world’s largest funder of foreign aid for decades—propping up education, health services and human rights in developing countries and supporting the militaries of strategic ...
The Buffalo News3d
NFTA public transit director says agency needs more state funding
James Morrell said more money is needed to fund increased and improved service, cover rising costs of paratransit service for riders with disabilities and to offset the loss of federal Covid-19 relief ...
ABC News4d
Nonprofits, NGOs scramble to provide global aid amid USAID uncertainty
Organizations described being locked out of systems and unable to access funds. Despite verbal assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio about allowing lifesaving humanitarian aid to continue ...
CNN4d
The US State Department says humanitarian assistance can continue. Foreign aid workers say that’s not happening
US-funded aid work around the world has been largely brought to a standstill, multiple sources tell CNN, despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s claims that the United States continues to ...
The Hill6d
Elites, criminal networks and aid failures drive the immigration crisis
Despite decades of U.S. aid and development programs, poverty, corruption and violence remain entrenched across El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The U.S. has invested billions to promote ...
The New York Times3d
One Very Real Problem Lost in the Politics of Aid Cuts: Child Malnutrition
As President Trump suspends a large share of foreign aid, the winner of my annual win-a-trip contest is reflecting on her reporting with me in Africa. The winner, Trisha Mukherjee, has written ...
The Buffalo News3d
Former Bishop Turner high school targeted for 'essential mall'
A Buffalo businessman wants to convert a former Catholic high school on the East Side into a medical clinic, supermarket, and ...
STAT6d
Trump administration allows some global aid to restart, but concerns remain on impact of USAID shutdown
The Trump administration has permitted the resumption of a range of global health initiatives despite its ongoing foreign aid freeze, offering a boost to programs targeting scourges like malaria ...