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Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer today announced that $49 million will be provided in fresh fruits and vegetables for elementary school children during the school day.

The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an initial $50,000 to the Togolese Red Cross for the provision of emergency relief supplies to the flood-affected population in Togo.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement this evening in support of the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde Global Leadership Against HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008.

The Department of Justice today announced the award of $710,500 in grants to 11 groups serving communities throughout the country, to conduct public education programs for workers and employers about immigration-related job discrimination.

The Acting Deputy Administrator for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), James Kunder, today administered the oath of office to Janina Jaruzelski as Mission Director for the USAID Regional Mission in Ukraine.

An Amazonian language with only 300 speakers has no word to express the concept of "one" or any other specific number, according to a new study from an MIT-led team.

Beth Cypser, the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) deputy mission director in Haiti is now the mission director.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has partnered with the Swiss Confederation's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) to launch the second phase of the Azerbaijan Corporate Governance Project.

With the Atlantic hurricane season underway, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is prepared to respond to storms in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The use of DNA technology results in a higher probability of arrest for all property loss crimes, according to a study released today from the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) employee pleaded guilty today to accepting an illegal gratuity for the performance of his official duties, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division announced today.

The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), have provided $80,000 to assist the Chilean geological agency SERNAGEOMIN to monitor current volcanic conditions at the Chaiten volcano.

First hand reports indicate surviving children without food, water, shelter

The children's agency launches "It's About Ability" a publication for children on the Convention

Amid worsening drought conditions, soaring food prices and mass displacement of people due to conflict, UNICEF has started supplementary feeding for 44,000 children under five years of age along the Mogadishu-Afgoye corridor in Central and Southern Somalia.Amid worsening drought conditions, soaring food prices and mass displacement of people due to conflict, UNICEF has started supplementary feeding for 44,000 children under five years of age along the Mogadishu-Afgoye corridor in Central and Southern Somalia.

Child-friendly spaces set up in camps sheltering people affected by Cyclone Nargis.

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DuPont partnerships with China's public and private sectors will help increase farm productivity in the country and increase total global supply of key agricultural products

One of the Classified Documents that Kadish provided to CC-1 contained information concerning nuclear weaponry and was classified as "Restricted Data," a specific designation by the U.S. Department of Energy

$1 Million Grant From the Ford Foundation to Leverage U.S. Fund for UNICEF's Goal of One-To-One Match From Donors