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US audit finds flaws in Haiti health care programs

By TRENTON DANIEL - Associated Press

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., reacts to supporters as she campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at an American Federation of Teachers Union rally in Cincinnati Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)

USAID documents cite Hillary Clinton in chaos of Afghan aid

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Report finds faults in US housing effort in Haiti

By TRENTON DANIEL - Associated Press

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee overseeing the USAID spending in Afghanistan, told The Washington Times that he first learned of the fund during a heated exchange with the agency's top official in the region last week and immediately thought, "Something here doesn't smell right." (Associated Press)

Rep. Jason Chaffetz questions $175 million USAID ‘slush fund’ for Afghans

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2012 file photo provided by U.S. lawyer James L. Berenthal, jailed American Alan Gross poses for a photo during a visit by Rabbi Elie Abadie and Berenthal at Finlay military hospital in Havana, Cuba. Gross, a U.S. government subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba, released a statement through his lawyer Tuesday, April 8, 2014, saying he began fasting to protest his treatment by the governments of Cuba and the United States. (AP Photo/James L. Berenthal, File)

American imprisoned in Cuba begins hunger strike

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

‘Cuban Twitter’ a new hurdle for bloggers, exiles

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Students gather behind a business looking for a Internet signal for their smart phones in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The U.S. Agency for International Development masterminded the creation of a &quot;Cuban Twitter,&quot; a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned. The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. Its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them. In 2012, the text messaging service vanished as mysteriously as it appeared. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

White House defends ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest

By DESMOND BUTLER and JACK GILLUM and ALBERTO ARCE - Associated Press

Students gather behind a business looking for a Internet signal for their smart phones in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The U.S. Agency for International Development masterminded the creation of a &quot;Cuban Twitter,&quot; a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned. The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. Its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them. In 2012, the text messaging service vanished as mysteriously as it appeared. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest

By DESMOND BUTLER and JACK GILLUM and ALBERTO ARCE - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, March 5, 2014 photo, prominent Afghan women&#8217;s rights activist Wazhma Frogh stands next to pictures of female Afghan police officers she trains, in her office in Kabul, Afghanistan. A gender and development specialist and human rights activist, Frogh says her experience characterizes the women&#8217;s rights movement in her country- after 12 years, billions of dollars and countless words emanating from the West commiserating with Afghan women, the successes are fragile, the changes superficial and vulnerable. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

USAID: Afghan qualifty of life improves amid U.S. intervention

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Survivors wait in line for relief goods on a flooded road at typhoon-ravaged Tacloban in central Philippines on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Debris, destruction in Philippines slow flow of aid

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2013, file photo Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pauses during a joint press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. American and NATO supply routes to Afghanistan are open in Pakistan. Controversial U.S. drone strikes are down. The U.S. and Pakistan recently announced the restart of their "strategic dialogue" after a long pause. And Sharif is traveling to Washington for talks and a meeting Wednesday, Oct. 23, with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)

U.S. releases $1.6 billion aid package to Pakistan

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

** FILE ** A street vendor splashes water on his face to ease the discomfort from the tear gas fired by police during protests against President Michel Martelly's government, mainly about the higher cost of living in downtown of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. The protest happened on a national holiday known as Jean-Jacques Dessalines day, honoring one of the nation's founding fathers. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

U.S. Haiti aid effort faces delays, shortfalls: report

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse.

Golden Hammer: IG says U.S. aid dollars unaccounted for in Afghan health program

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Afghan policemen keep watch from atop city police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, following the killing of an American adviser by an Afghan policewoman, according to a senior Afghan police official. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

U.S. shells out millions for bum construction in Afghanistan: Report

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Bolivian President Evo Morales addresses a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Bolivia expels USAID for ‘conspiring’ against government

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** A beggar asks for donations in a street in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 7, 2013. There are fears in Serbia that the troubled Balkan nation's economic recovery may slow down because of global financial crisis and rising poverty. (Associated Press)

Feds award $300K for ‘workforce development’ in Serbia

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Cisco to set up tech training centers in Myanmar

By ERIKA KINETZ - Associated Press

Ex-USAID contractor, wife sentenced in $1 million embezzlement

By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Judy Gross, wife of U.S. government contractor Alan Gross, and U.S. lawyer Peter J. Kahn arrive at the courthouse where Mr. Gross is on a trial accused of "acts against the integrity and independence" of Cuba, in Havana on Friday, March 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

CARDENAS: U.S. must pressure Cuba for release of Alan Gross

By Jose R. Cardenas

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Associated Press)

Russia accuses USAID of trying to sway elections

By Lynn Berry - Associated Press