The Trump administration announced the U.S. will withdraw from UNESCO, which in 2023 added Newark's Octagon Earthworks to its World Heritage List.

Iconic travel destinations like the Statue of Liberty and Grand Canyon are among the 26 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the US ...

The decision comes two years after the Biden administration rejoined following a controversial, five-year absence that began ...

The announcement is the latest development of a tug-of-war between two rival administrations over the cultural arm of the ...

UNESCO has also politicized Jewish holy sites, calling Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem a “mosque,” which it never was. And it’s ...

US President Donald Trump is turning his back on international cooperation, notably on the climate crisis and through the US ...

Although America’s contribution to Unesco’s budget is 8%, its arrears are, in fact, in the millions. Since withdrawing and then rejoining the organisation is a recurrent event, Unesco says it has made ...

On July 22, 2025, the Trump administration announced that the United States would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

The State Department announced that the United States would be withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). A press statement confirmed the ...

The country previously left the agency for two brief stints—once from 1984 to 2003 and again from 2017 to 2023. The newly ...

The U.S. State Department announced this week that the United States will once again withdraw from the United Nations ...

The United States must continue opposing this gambit, which undermines U.S. peace efforts and challenges U.S. leadership.</p><p>Last month, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...