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News Articles: Samantha Power

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supporters hold banners as USAID workers retrieve their personal belongings from the USAID's headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.

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  • Politics

USAID workers return to HQ to clear their desks, as Trump dismantles the agency

Workers who served in the U.S. Agency for International Development were allowed a final and brief visit back to their offices to clear out their belongings on Thursday.

February 27, 2025
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By:
  • Michele Kelemen
USAID Administrator Samantha Power delivered a speech on her "new vision" for the agency on Nov. 4 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

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  • Global Health

New USAID director aims to shake up 60-year-old aid agency. Here's her 'new vision'

Like any government agency, the biggest American foreign aid group has its problems. This week, its new administrator Samantha Power outlined her solutions.

November 05, 2021
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, speaks during a joint press conference with Haitian officials at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-Au-Prince on Thursday.

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  • World

The U.S. Is Pledging Aid To Haiti But The Success Of Past Efforts Has Been Mixed

USAID Administrator Samantha Power appeared with Haiti's prime minister to pledge $32 million in assistance for the earthquake-damaged nation. The primary needs are for shelter and medical care.

August 26, 2021
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  • Becky Sullivan
Samantha Power, who served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Obama administration, has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to run USAID. Power is seen here in 2014.

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  • Politics

Biden Nominates Samantha Power To Run U.S. Agency For International Development

Power is "a world-renowned voice of conscience and moral clarity," President-elect Joe Biden said of the former U.N. ambassador. The post will be elevated to become a National Security Council member.

January 13, 2021
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  • Laurel Wamsley
Samantha Power has been a reporter on the ground during The Balkan Wars, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. under President Obama. Her memoir, 'The Education Of An Idealist', highlights the personal side of public service.

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UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Memoir Looks Back On 'The Education Of An Idealist'

In her new memoir, Samantha Power writes about the “X test.” As she describes it, “in trying for Y, the most I accomplish is X.” In other words, even if...

November 14, 2019
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