On Friday, a Trump-appointed judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle USAID and lay off thousands of workers. The judge’s ruling came hours after government workers took down USAID signage from the agency’s headquarters. Internal documents suggest the Trump administration is planning to cut the size of USAID’s staff from about 10,000 to under 300. Global aid organizations are warning the dismantling of the aid agency could impact millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. The United Nations AIDS agency warned on Friday that more than 6 million...

The head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if American support of the biggest AIDS program is dropped, warning that millions of people could die and more resistant strains of the disease could emerge. In an interview with The Associated Press, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima said HIV infections have been falling in recent years, with just 1.3 million new cases recorded in 2023, a 60% decline since the virus peaked in 1995. But since...