WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: Projects Will Help Nearly 575,000 People Access Reliable Electricity and Clean Drinking Water U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is funding 47 projects in 23 states to improve access to reliable electricity and clean drinking water for more than one million people and create good-paying jobs across the nation. The announcement was made during President   more

SOTO CANO AIR BASE, Honduras, May 15 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Shelby Pruitt-Johnson, Joint Task Force-Bravo Public Affairs A KC-46A Pegasus from the 931st Air Refueling Wing, McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, delivered 12 pallets of cargo for the Denton Program at Soto Cano Air Base, May 8. The Denton Program is a Department of Defense humanitarian assistance transportation program that moves humanitarian cargo, donated by United States-based non-governme  more

AMES, Iowa, May 14 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued the following remarks on May 12, 2024, by Administrator Samantha Power at Iowa State University's 2024 Spring Commencement: * * * ADMINISTRATOR SAMANTHA POWER: I am personally thrilled to be back in Iowa. Not far from here on a very snowy, very, very cold night in January 2008, in advance of the Iowa Caucus, I went door to door canvassing for then-Senator, upstart presidential candidate Barack Obama. That's not the impo  more