Thousands of USAID employees will be placed on paid leave from Friday night.

The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control. By Shawn McCreeshMaggie Haberman and ...

Fire badly damaged a historic home on Wickapogue Lane in eastern Southampton Village on Friday afternoon but was extinguished by fire fighters, saving the structure. The fire broke out at the house at ...