A federal food aid program that helps about one-eighth of Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown, and even some states that want to step in to fill the ...

ADEN, Yemen - Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi paramilitary has been lionized at pro-Palestinian protests around the world and on social media for its missile strikes on Israel over the Gaza war. In May, ...

Officials in Louisiana, Vermont and Virginia pledged Thursday to keep food aid flowing to recipients in their states, even if the federal program is stalled next month because of the government ...

Students starting college next year will face a dramatically different federal financial aid system than the one their older siblings and parents encountered, experts say, due to changes enacted this ...

How can researchers measure poverty and understand local development needs in places where conventional data collection is difficult or impossible? To overcome this obstacle, Rutgers researchers have ...

Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the European Union summit, Zelenskyy was commenting on the EU mechanism of extending Ukraine a “reparatory loan,” which would have to be repaid only ...

Dr. Shah is the president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the author of “Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens.” Over the past year, wealthy countries around the world have undermined a ...

(RNS) — President Trump's peace plan does not mention the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a private entity created by the US and Israel to circumvent the United Nations. (RNS) — With President Trump ...

The new Israel-Hamas deal contains provisions to increase aid to Gaza, and the U.N. says that large amounts of food, medicine and other supplies are ready to be sent in. By Liam Stack Rawan Sheikh ...

As the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to shut down and transition to virtual learning five years ago, Congress approved coronavirus relief aid that included over $13 billion for the ...

In the final days of negotiation over the state budget, the top Democrat in the Michigan Senate proposed spending $100 million in tax dollars on the expansion of a program that gives new mothers ...