The State Department is reallocating $1.2 billion in foreign aid funding to President Donald Trump’s war criminal-filled Board of Peace, Semafor first reported Thursday. Officials took $1 billion from international disaster assistance,

As a lawsuit by the former staff drags on, the fight highlights President Trump’s upending of traditional peace-building and the lasting effects of his administration’s cost-cutting blitz.

Buddhist monks crossed into Georgia in West Point as part of a nearly 120-day cross-country walk for peace. The pilgrimage began in Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to end in Washington, D.C., in February. The group continues through west Georgia with ...

Buddhist monks walking 2,300 miles from Texas to Washington, D.C., for peace said Sunday they expect to arrive in Charlotte on Thursday, Jan. 15. “The planned route is subject to change due to weather, logistics, safety concerns, and other unforeseen ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened 2026 on Thursday with a plea for peace, singling out in particular countries "bloodied by conflict" and families wounded by violence. Leo celebrated a New Year's Day Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and then delivered a ...

Donald Trump inaugurated his "Board of Peace" Thursday as a bold solution to lead efforts at maintaining a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas. The U.S. President said "everyone wants to be a part" of the body that could eventually rival the United ...

A new study led by Yale anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick examines how stakeholders in socially diverse, conflict-affected societies conceptualize everyday peace, drawing on a comparative analysis across different groups of people. The findings offer ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the 2025 Peace Prize laureate, regifted her Nobel medal to Donald Trump at the White House on Jan. 15 Kyler Alvord leads PEOPLE's politics coverage as a Senior News Editor for the brand. He joined the ...

After completing 110 days of walking to promote peace and national healing and gathering millions of social media followers on their path, a group of Buddhist monks will return home to Fort Worth on Valentine’s Day. The monks departed Washington, D.C ...

Davos has always been a stage for grand announcements, but this year’s unveiling of Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” was designed to eclipse them all. Leaders from dozens of states gathered under bright lights, pens poised over a glossy charter, as ...

Market pros say uncertainty is likely to persist even as investors cheer reports of a US peace plan sent to Iran to end the war.