Sean Duffy, the new transportation secretary, was facing his first major crisis just hours after being sworn in for the job.

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels asserted their control over east Congo's largest city Goma on Thursday by calling on residents to ...

WASHINGTON, DC, US —Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made it clear in his first US Senate confirmation hearing that his quest to reduce chronic disease would ...

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

President Donald Trump’s budget office has rescinded a memo freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it ...

Hundreds of internal contractors working for the U.S. Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and ...

The memo issued on Monday by the Management and Budget Office caused alarm among states, schools, and organisations reliant on funding from Washington.

Those who support the freeze of US aid programmes, worth around $70bn per year, say they are vastly bloated, with Washington ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday issued a waiver that allows the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and ...