Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in the cases against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been fired. Although a reason for the dismissal was not immediately clear, she is also the daughter of James Comey, who is the former director of the FBI and a critic of President Donald Trump.

The process of remote wiping government phones has been slow, employees who used to do work for the agency said.

Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.

The end of USAID will also likely result in around 200,000 children becoming paralyzed in some manner, as the program distributed polio vaccines. Around 160,000 could also die from malaria because of the program ending.

As the Trump administration ends USAID's mission, a project to bring water to drought-ridden lands is now in peril. In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, William Brangham and producer Molly Knight Raskin traveled to a community in central Kenya to look at the legacy of American foreign aid.

Former Presidents Bush and Obama, along with U2's Bono, console USAID employees as the agency is shuttered amid Trump administration claims of fraud and mismanagement.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Tuesday as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in the next five years.

The U.S. Agency for International Development will on Tuesday officially stop implementing foreign aid, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, adding that America's assistance in the future will be targeted and limited.

Countries the program helped could now fall under the sway of Russia and China, creating a more volatile world. | Opinion