USAID

The impact of a $41 million contract to reform lands in Afghanistan is unclear. (AP Photos/Abdul Khaliq, File)

National Security

Effectiveness of $41 million spent in Afghanistan murky, report says

Jacqueline Klimas · February 9, 2017 4:59 am

As abortion rights providers and groups have demonstrated time after time, their baseline is this: We are the summit (and the foundation) of women’s rights. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Beltway Confidential

Abortion providers have an absurd baseline on foreign aid for abortions

Helen Alvaré · January 23, 2017 8:20 pm

President Obama and leaders of countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed a new declaration Thursday to combat modern-day human slavery throughout the region. (AP Photo/S. Yulinnas, File)

U.S., Asian nations step up human trafficking fight

Susan Crabtree · September 8, 2016 1:38 pm

"These lawsuits are intended to expedite the release of records covered under FOIA that will allow Americans to hold Hillary Clinton accountable," Reince Priebus said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

RNC files four lawsuits over Clinton emails

Rudy Takala · March 15, 2016 7:07 pm

USAID secretly created a primitive social media program called ZunZuneo, staged a health workshop to recruit activists and infiltrated Cuba's hip-hop community. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

Secret ‘Cuban Twitter’ project racked with problems

Sarah Bedford · December 24, 2015 9:56 pm

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks at an U.S. Agency for International Development event in Kabul, Afghanistan. A watchdog found USAID couldn't reconcile its financial records with the actual number of active contracts in the country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

U.S. can’t keep track of Afghan spending

Sarah Bedford · December 15, 2015 5:01 am

An inspector general audit found $1.2 million of $4.6 million spent by a wildlife group was unsupported. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Energy and Environment

Watchdog questions costs by conservation contractor in Afghanistan

Kyle Feldscher · December 11, 2015 9:07 pm

Chelsea Clinton, VP of her family's foundation, visited Haiti to see the impact of the philanthropy's work. (AP)

Clinton Foundation travels to Haiti amid criticisms

Sarah Bedford · July 30, 2015 4:01 am

Harold Geisel,Â the temporary inspector general of the State Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure,Â speaks during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Contracting Oversight Subcommittee on Capitol Hill November 18, 2010 in Washington, D.C. (Getty Image)

Official sued to keep Clinton State documents secret

Sarah Bedford · June 16, 2015 4:01 am

In this Sunday, April 12, 2015 photo, Afghan National Army soldiers patrol a road in Herat city, west of capital Kabul. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

U.S. official warns of Afghan ‘ghost soldiers’

Tara Copp · June 12, 2015 7:42 pm

Former President Bill Clinton gestures while wearing a bracelet given to him by the pupils, as he and Chelsea Clinton talk about their foundation's "No Ceilings" project about the participation of women and girls globally, at the Farasi Lane Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

State Department spending followed foreign Clinton Foundation donors

Sarah Bedford · May 29, 2015 4:01 am

"I remain concerned that IRD is acting improperly to limit the rights of potential whistleblowers to report instances of waste, fraud and abuse," John Sopko wrote in late July of last year. (AP Photo)Â

State Department slashes oversight in Afghanistan, putting billions at risk

Sarah Bedford · April 29, 2015 1:59 pm