The website for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the world’s biggest aid donor, has gone dark. Donald Trump’s new administration plans to place the autonomous agency under the control of the State Department. The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has now declared himself head of the agency to “align” it with Trump’s […]
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