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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development, cutting 83% of them, and said he would move the remaining aid programs under the State Department.
Other news we’re following today:
- US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia: Senior officials from Ukraine and the United States opened talks Tuesday on how to end Moscow’s three-year war against Kyiv, hours after in the biggest such attack since the Kremlin ordered the full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
- Wall Street’s panicked sell-off: European and Asian benchmarks were mixed on Tuesday, tracking a sell-off on Wall Street spurred by worries over the ripple effects from President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
- DHS overhauls asylum phone app: The Trump administration has unveiled an overhauled phone app once used to let migrants apply for asylum, turning it into a system that allows people living illegally in the U.S. to say they want to leave the country voluntarily.
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