As our nation prepares to celebrate 250 years since its founding, the nearly quarter-million people who have served in the ...

TODAY MARKS A MILESTONE FOR THE "PEACE CORPS" . ON THIS DAY -- IN 1961 -- PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY. SINCE THE START... IT'S BEEN A WAY FOR ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (WILX) - On this day in 1960, presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy stood at the steps of the Michigan ...

Walter and Marjorie "Kiki" Kember of 337 Holmes Road recently returned from a tour of duty in the Peace Corps in Conakry, Guinea, West Africa. They described their stint as "a serious thing but a very ...

Peace Corps volunteers pose with the U.S. flag after they are sworn in during a 2002 event in Burkina Faso. Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images The United States Agency for International Development ...

We’re just three months into President Trump’s second term, and already the Peace Corps is on the chopping block. While he touts solutions of tariffs and “government efficiency,” he shatters our ...

Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, his administration has slashed the work of many U.S. government agencies, including those focused on foreign policy. Now, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Norman Sherman's essay "Please Leave the Peace Corps Alone" captures the ignorance and insanity of the ...

Organization promises to stop blaming victims of sex assault. May 11, 2011 — -- After emotional testimony from several former Peace Corps volunteers who were victims of sexual assault abroad, the ...

The Peace Corps has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a 24-year-old volunteer from Illinois who died in 2018 in East Africa after the agency's doctors misdiagnosed a case of malaria, a law firm ...