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The U.N. World Food Program is grappling with its worst funding shortage in 60 years and "we are in a desperate situation," Executive Director Cindy McCain said Sunday. The U.N. World Food Program, the largest anti-hunger initiative around the globe, is grappling with its worst funding shortage in 60 years and "we are in a desperate situation," its executive director said on Sunday. "It's a combination of things -- it's COVID, it's climate change, it's co NFL ict and also the cost of being able to do Business ," Cindy McCain told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl about the reasons behind the lack of money . "Those things combined and, of course, a world that has kind of grown tired of all this. There's a great malaise right now within countries about foreign aid and giving." In Afghanistan, for example, the food program doesn't "have enough money to even get through October." McCain made th...

Americans would be able to order the tests at CovidTests.Gov in coming weeks. The federal government program used for the last two winters to send free COVID tests to Americans' homes will get up-and-running once again in the coming weeks, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Wednesday. Becerra made the announcement speaking to reporters at a CVS drugstore in Washington, D.C., while getting his updated COVID shot and flu shot. CovidTests.Gov has been an on-and-off presence since the winter of 2022, when the omicron variant was ripping across the country. COVID-19 rapid antigen tests are seen in this illustration photo, Jan. 31, 2023. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images, FILE MORE: Weekly COVID hospitalizations reach 20,000 for 1st time since March but new vaccine could help: Experts At the time, President Joe Biden pledged to give out 1 billion free rapid tests. But the site was temporarily shut down that fall as a political fight dragged on over COVID fundi...

The government is on the brink of a shutdown -- and with just five days until the Saturday deadline, many federal workers and agencies are bracing for impact. Much of the government is getting close to shutting down Oct. 1 as Congress struggles to pass a stopgap funding deal -- and on Monday, with just five days to go, many federal workers and agencies were bracing for impact. The House and Senate have until the end of the day on Saturday, Sept. 30 to pass a spending deal. Little progress was made over the weekend, and with Congress not returning until Tuesday evening after being off for the Yom Kippur holiday, there's so little time left a shutdown is being seen as almost inevitable. In anticipation of that, the Office of Management and Budget has advised federal agencies to review and update their shutdown plans. OMB will tell agencies to enact those shutdown plans, including notifying employees whether they have been furloughed or should continue to report to work on Oct. 1. MO...

The Biden administration has touted the benefits of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program -- and teachers are sharing how they are among those benefiting As President Joe Biden moves forward with a second attempt at student loan debt forgiveness, following a 6-3 defeat at the Supreme Court, his administration has also been touting the benefits of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program as another option for some borrowers -- and teachers are sharing how they are among those benefiting. The PSLF program was first congressionally authorized in 2007, during the Bush administration, to cancel student debt for government employees like educators, firefighters and police officers as well as not-for-profit employees and others providing public services who make at least 10 years of payments on their loans. However, the original PSLF program was "poorly implemented" and many borrowers weren't successfully able to receive forgiveness , according to U.S. Ed...

FBI Director Christopher Wray described how his agency saw an increase in cyberattacks from Russia at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine Speaking Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, FBI Director Christopher Wray described how his agency saw an increase in cyberattacks from Russia at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine last year and he hammered the Chinese for their artificial intelligence program. At the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in February 2022, the FBI observed a growing number of Russian attempts to carry out cyberattacks , Wray said. "We did see, as the conflict erupted and increased, effort by the Russian intelligence services -- which have been conducting malicious cyberactivity against U.S. infrastructure for years," he said. MORE: China has stolen American data more than any country: FBI Director Wray Wray also took aim at another U.S. competitor: China. He predicted that China's artificial intelligence program ...