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State Department chief Rex Tillerson has backed dramatic cuts to his department, saying its current funding levels are "simply not sustainable."

So we slash US foreign aid. But why?

April 26, 2017Global Politics

Former chiefs of USAID say slashing foreign assistance and folding USAID into the State Department will have many unintended consequences.

Judy Gross the wife of a U.S. contractor jailed in Cuba for crimes against the state, speaks at a rally for her husband's release in Florida.

It’s four years and counting for one American in a Cuban jail cell

December 4, 2013Conflict & Justice

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