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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power listens Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic during talks in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Power arrived in Belgrade for the start of a weeklong visit to Serbia and Kosovo. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

USAID chief pledges U.S. support to Serbia, Kosovo in talks

Associated Press

USAID Administrator Samantha Power in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, traveled to Kyiv to hold meetings with government officials and residents. She said the U.S. would provide an additional $55 million to repair heating pipes and other equipment. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, Pool)

Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

USAID administrator Samantha Power, left, speaks with agriculture specialists of UN's FAO and rice farmers during a visit to a paddy field in Ja-Ela on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

U.S. announces $40 million agricultural aid to Sri Lanka

By Krishan Francis - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 23, 2021 file photo, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to be the next Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Capitol Hill in Washington. Power landed Saturday, July 31, in Khartoum, aiming to support Sudan’s fragile transition to democracy before travelling to Ethiopia to press the government there to allow humanitarian aid to the war-torn Tigray region. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP, File)

USAID administrator warns of the war in Ukraine expanding into a global crisis

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, file photo, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters. Power is writing a memoir about her transition from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of foreign policy to a leading government official. Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing, told The Associated Press on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, that it had acquired Power’s “The Education of an Idealist.” (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Former US Ambassador Samantha Power writing a memoir

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

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Samantha Power takes veiled shot at Donald Trump over refugees

By Jessie Fox - The Washington Times

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks to members of civil society groups at the U.S. Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon, Sunday, April 17, 2016. Power is visiting Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria to highlight the growing threat Boko Haram poses to the Lake Chad Basin region. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Boko Haram still a threat months after ‘technical victory’

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks to members of civil society groups at the U.S. Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon, Sunday, April 17, 2016. Power is visiting Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria to highlight the growing threat Boko Haram poses to the Lake Chad Basin region. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Boko Haram still a threat months after ‘technical victory’

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speak to an audience of civil society activists and politicians in Kiev, Ukraine, on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Power is visiting Ukraine as the country battles to overhaul the economy, combat corruption and wages a war against Russia-backed separatist rebels in the east. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Hill hearing with U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power evacuated over ‘threat’

By Brennan Weiss - The Washington Times

U.S. United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power Tuesday faced intense grilling from lawmakers over Iran. Ms. Powers denied that the U.S. and its allies ignored sanction violations by Iran in order to preserve ongoing nuclear talks. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Samantha Power, U.N. ambassador, grilled on Iran sanctions violations

By Brennan Weiss - The Washington Times

U.S. United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power addresses the 2015 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

U.S. ambassador: U.N. peacekeeping needs Europe more than ever

Associated Press

Ukrainian government soldiers sat on their armored vehicle driving on a road away from the town of Artemivsk as separatists pushed deeper into Debaltseve.

Pro-Russia separatists ignore Ukraine cease-fire deadline, push deeper into Debaltseve

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Kaci Hickox, a health care worker who returned from fighting Ebola in West Africa, wrote a scathing review of "inhumane" treatment by inspectors at Newark Liberty International Airport and her ongoing quarantine. Ms. Hickox is the first traveler quarantined under new guidelines established in New Jersey and New York. (University of Texas at Arlington via Associated Press)

Ebola health worker quarantines pit politics vs. science

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, March 27, 2014. The draft resolution of the U.N. General Assembly on Ukraine is "confrontational in nature", Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Thursday, March 27. "Russia&#8217;s attitude towards the proposed draft resolution is negative. It is confrontational in nature," he said before the vote in the U.N. General Assembly. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Obama needs no U.N. approval to order airstrikes in Syria, ambassador says

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

U.S. worried terrorists could get hidden stockpiles of Syria’s chemical weapons

Associated Press

** FILE ** A pro-Russian soldier is back dropped by Russia flag while manning a machine-gun outside an Ukrainian military base in Perevalne, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. (Associated Press)

Russian tanks enter Ukraine; ‘encroachment’ condemned by world leaders

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama confesses: ‘We don’t have a strategy yet’ for dealing with Islamic State

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power addresses Wednesday April 9, 2014 top officials from the African peacekeeping mission known as MISCA, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Power urged more support for the existing African and French troops in Central African Republic on the eve of a U.N. vote to create a peacekeeping mission expected to take at least five months to have ready on the ground. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

US envoy: C. African Republic needs more troops

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, March 27, 2014. The draft resolution of the U.N. General Assembly on Ukraine is "confrontational in nature", Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Thursday, March 27. "Russia&#8217;s attitude towards the proposed draft resolution is negative. It is confrontational in nature," he said before the vote in the U.N. General Assembly. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

EDITORIAL: Samantha Powerless on Syria genocide

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a student conference for the Clinton Global Initiative University at Arizona State University, in this March 21, 2014, file photo taken in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Obama taps critic of Clinton’s Rwanda handling to head delegation remembering genocide

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times