On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO)—a move that experts say makes the U.S. and other countries ...

President Donald Trump is pictured in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026. President Donald Trump has officially withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO). The move is more ...

Joining the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is the state’s latest move into an area that was previously the domain of the federal government, before ...

The United States has formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday. Trump signed an executive order on his ...

The United States officially departed the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday, completing a process initiated by President Donald Trump following his second inauguration. Newsweek reached out ...

The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Trump announced — on the first day of his second term — that America was ending its 78-year-old ...

WASHINGTON — World Health Organization bureaucrats have finally returned an American flag that flew at its Geneva headquarters after State Department officials accused the public health body of ...

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The state of Illinois has joined a World Health Organization pandemic response network after the Trump administration withdrew the U.S. from the WHO. President Donald Trump’s administration withdrew ...