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The USAID logo is seen on a machine that processes recycled plastic into construction blocks at the Pasig Eco Hub, a project impacted by the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid, on March 10, 2025 in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Death, sexual violence and human trafficking: The global fallout from killing USAID

Brett Murphy, Anna Maria Barry-Jester
A Vietnamese soldier stands next to a hazardous warning sign by a runway at Bien Hoa air base, on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, as US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis visits the former US air base on October 17, 2018. - The toxic legacy of the Vietnam War came under the spotlight again on October 17 when Mattis visits a former storage site for Agent Orange, which is blamed for birth defects and cancers among a million Vietnamese. (THOMAS WATKINS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump halted an Agent Orange cleanup. That puts hundreds of thousands at risk for poisoning

Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Brett Murphy, Le Van
Children line up with bottles to get clean water on streets flooded with leaked sewage as the municipality announces the suspension of work in sewage treatment plants as they lack sufficient fuel due to Israel's attacks and blockade in Deir al Balah, Gaza on July 16, 2024. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

US report found that Israel blocked Gaza aid, but the Biden administration kept weapons flowing

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken. (Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images)

Blinken sitting on staff recommendations to sanction Israeli military units linked to killings, rape

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Associate US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

“Delicate matter”: Clarence Thomas’ private complaints about money sparked fears he would resign

Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski, Brett Murphy
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Clarence Thomas’ 38 vacations: Other billionaires treated the Supreme Court justice to luxury travel

Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas (Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

Ethics watchdog calls for Justice Department investigation into Clarence Thomas’ luxury trips

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Male suspect arrested in the night, with police flashers behind him. (Михаил Руденко/Getty)

Reporters expose how police use “junk science” forensic techniques to arrest innocent people

Sophia Kovatch, Pamela Colloff, Brett Murphy
Man on a phone against window blinds (Getty Images/Catherine Falls Commercial)

They called 911 — but cops and prosecutors decided they were lying

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Police cars at night (Getty Images)

“Is the caller the killer?”: How Jessica Logan’s 911 call for help became evidence against her

Brett Murphy