State Department

The Department of State announced on Wednesday that United States government vessels would be allowed to travel through the Panama Canal without facing “charge fees.”

A group within the State Department focused on pushing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has reportedly canceled all future planned events in the wake of newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ascension.

One of the State Department’s first actions after the Senate confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio was to bar pride and Black Lives Matter flags at embassies and outposts. 

President Donald Trump’s new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is issuing an order to all State Department personnel effectively ending COVID-era work-from-home guidelines and ordering them all back to work in person at the State Department.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) answered concerns about his longstanding, vocal stance against the atrocities committed by communist China in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday where he appeared following his nomination to be secretary of state.

Sen. Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a confirmation hearing for him to become Secretary of State on Wednesday, January 15.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next Secretary of State, will take the globalist foreign policy establishment to task in his opening statement at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

President-elect Donald Trump is appointing Tammy Bruce, a political analyst, author, and former Fox News contributor, as the U.S. State Department’s spokeswoman.

The State Department has devised plans to distribute employees from the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which has funded the censoring of conservatives, to a new internal “hub” that will coordinate the same activities, as revealed by documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Internet watchdogs generally agreed that Internet freedom declined once again in 2024 – the fourteenth loss in a row, according to Freedom House.

The United States “will never be played for suckers again” on the global stage, vowed Florida Republican Rep. Brian Mast, who outlined his priorities for leading the House Foreign Affairs Committee, pledging to enforce an “America First” agenda and provide a “colonoscopy” of State Department activities.

Violence erupted in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Sunday, the fourth day of massive protests that began after Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze suspended talks to join the European Union (EU).

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been getting mocked for reportedly holding therapy cry sessions for White House employees upset over President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris.

A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy activists and former activists to up to 10 years in prison, concluding the largest case brought to date under the authoritarian “national security law” imposed by Beijing to crush the 2019 pro-democracy movement.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a notice on Tuesday banning all flights to Haiti for at least 30 days following three gun attacks on planes flying to the capital city of Port-au-Prince.

The Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs has issued a damning report revealing the U.S. State Department’s promotion of atheism abroad in the name of “religious freedom.”

The State Department said Tuesday that the Biden-Harris administration would not cut off weapons supplies to Israel in reaction to what it said was a declining humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, due to Israeli mitigation efforts.

The German Foreign Ministry on Tuesday recalled Ambassador to Iran Markus Potzel, then summoned Iran’s envoy in Berlin to lodge a formal protest against Iran’s execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen who resided in California.

State Department Matthew Miller struggled Wednesday to explain why the Biden-Harris administration wants to put a U.S. consulate to the Palestinians on sovereign Israeli territory, over the objections of the Israeli government.

Ariane Tabatabai, an official who has drawn public scrutiny due to her apparent links to the Iranian regime, has reportedly been reassigned following months of inquiries and complaints by Republican members of Congress.

An Afghan accused of plotting an Election Day ISIS terrorist attack reportedly did not undergo as rigorous a vetting process as previously claimed.

The Biden administration on Tuesday urged India to take Canadian allegations of an assassination plot against Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar seriously and cooperate with Canadian investigators.

A Russian court on Monday sentenced 72-year-old U.S. citizen Stephen James Hubbard to nearly seven years in prison for helping to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

The House Committee on Foreign Affairs marks up a resolution to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress after he failed to respond to a subpoena to testify over the Biden-Harris disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Americans who had contact with the suspect in an alleged failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Ryan Wesley Routh, were so alarmed by his erratic behavior in Ukraine that they alerted U.S. officials, who apparently did very little with the warnings.

The U.S. State Department insisted on Tuesday that it had no prior knowledge of or involvement in a string of explosions apparently targeting Hezbollah terrorists throughout Lebanon and Syria.

The Biden-Harris administration refuses to publicly condemn threats against American freedom of speech by the European Union over an interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk on his social media platform X last month, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has revealed.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) handed out 37 death sentences in connection to the May coup attempt.

A new congressional report accuses an office within the State Department of funding groups that targeted and censored small businesses in the United States, overstepping its mandate to combat foreign disinformation.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said that Israel did agree to President Joe Biden’s proposal on a ceasefire and still does agree to it, “and the imperative also continues to be on Hamas to

Venezuelan law enforcement officials detained a U.S. Navy sailor visiting Caracas, Venezuela, on August 30, officials confirmed.

A September report from Open Doors International details the dire situation faced by Christians hunted to the verge of extinction in Nigeria.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemned the Houthis for creating an ecological disaster by attacking an oil tanker.

The State Department announced on Saturday that it would lift a three-year ban on selling certain weapons to Saudi Arabia.

Russians living in the border region of Kursk are criticizing the slow and confused response by civic and military officials to the Ukrainian military incursion that began on Tuesday.

On Friday, the same day Russia sentenced American reporter Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal to 16 years in prison on fanciful charges of “espionage,” it sentenced Russian-American reporter Alsu Kurmasheva of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) to 6.5 years for allegedly “spreading false information about the Russian military.”