Perry was a vocal proponent of other cuts to foreign aid spearheaded by trillionaire Elon Musk early in the Trump administration.

Framingham resident Emma Rothwell is heading to El Salvador for a two-year Peace Corps youth development mission.

The U.S. House is poised to consider a measure proposed by Rep. Scott Perry that would eliminate funding next year for the Peace Corps and other foreign aid programs. The amendment to an ...

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Eight University of Nebraska–Lincoln students earned a certificate from the Peace Corps for successfully completing the Peace ...

In a speech at the University of Michigan in 1960, John F. Kennedy challenged US college graduates to volunteer in underprivileged countries for the cause of peace. A year later the Peace Corps was ...

A World Cup watch party in Oakland, California reunited a former Peace Corps teacher with her Cape Verde student after ...

Bernice Heiderman died in 2018 after texting her mother that the local Peace Corps doctor wasn't taking seriously her complaints of dizziness, nausea, fever and fatigue, a law firm said. A government ...

From the front porches of the U.S., the view of the Peace Corps is beautiful. The image is that of a battalion of cheery, crew-cut kids who two years ago hopped off their drugstore stools, and hurried ...

The Peace Corps celebrates its 60 th anniversary this year, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic there are currently no Peace Corps volunteers serving abroad. As the Peace Corps program practices ...

“Why should you, a white woman, go work in Africa?” The question was from an African American newsroom colleague, and it knocked me back. It was the late 1990s, and I had just announced that I was ...