A senior official at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is taking a leadership role at the U.S. Agency for ...

Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images “Thank you for your assistance in clearing our classified safes and personnel documents,” began the email, which bore a USAID logo.

Groups challenging the administration's plans to shut down USAID filed an emergency motion Tuesday afternoon seeking to stop the document destruction. "Defendants are, as this motion is being ...

When disaster strikes abroad, trucks and response workers bearing the USAID logo are often the first to show up, which has contributed to the U.S. reputation of goodwill and collaboration.

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees and outside groups are fighting an order from the agency’s leadership to shred and burn its classified documents as well as personnel ...

A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to ...

Two former employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), who were fired last month, told CNN the 83 percent spending cuts Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday ...

A USAID official had ordered the destruction of classified records. A USAID directive to destroy classified documents had been "seriously misapprehended," Trump administration attorneys wrote in a ...

The only labeling required on the burn bags are the words 'SECRET' and 'USAID/(B/IO)' in dark sharpie if possible. If you need additional burn bags or sharpie markers, please let me or the SEC ...

The guidance also said that staff must remove their USAID-issued equipment from their desk, while those fired from their jobs should return other things issued by the agency for their employment.

But Team Trump directing USAID employees to shred and burn documents in Washington, D.C., is bizarre. It also raises unavoidable questions about what, exactly, motivated the administration to ...