The expansionist talk in Gaza is playing out as Trump has begun an effort to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the federal agency that provides crucial aid that funds education and fights starvation, epidemics and poverty overseas. Trump sees it as a poster child of government waste and advancement of liberal social programs.

I Thought We Voted for America First' - Trump Gaza Plan Divides His Party By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal that the U.S. take over the war-torn Gaza Strip prompted confusion and skepticism from some of his fellow Republicans on Wednesday,

As Palestinians trek back to their bombed-out homes in the Gaza Strip after 15 months of war between its ruling Hamas party and Israel, President Donald Trump's proposed turning it into the "Riviera of the Middle East" on Tuesday.

U.S. aid staffers around the world are scrambling Wednesday for answers and starting to pack up households or pull their children from school after a sudden Trump administration order yanking almost all of them off the job and out of the field.

WASHINGTON − About 10,000 employees of the United States Agency for International Development, excluding essential personnel, have been notified that they will be placed on administrative leave at the end of Friday as President Donald Trump moves to dismantle the foreign aid agency.

Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday, to chart a strategy to “remake” the Middle East, on the day negotiations are meant to resume to prolong the ceasefire in Gaza. But in Israel and far beyond,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Tuesday with President Donald Trump at the White House amid phase two of a fragile cease-fire pact, as Trump called for the United States to take control of the Gaza strip.

President Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House to discuss the future of a Gaza cease-fire and wider Middle East strategy. Photo: Shawn Thew/Bloomberg News