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

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.”

The U.S. State Department and the Afghan Taliban terrorist organization both confirmed this weekend that at least two, and potentially three, American citizens are currently under Taliban criminal custody in Afghanistan.

The House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations will hold a hearing reviewing the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report on Tuesday, July 9.

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at a press briefing on Monday that the Biden administration believes “continued military action in Gaza just makes Israel weaker.”

The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 opinion against an illegal alien who sought to secure a visa to stay in the United States after having been denied for allegedly being a member of the MS-13 gang.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) in a letter on Tuesday urged Republican leaders on House Appropriations Committee to stop the U.S. government from partnering with Ukrainian actors targeting Americans, after a Ukrainian non-governmental organization published an enemies list consisting of American lawmakers, think-tanks, and media figures who questioned or opposed sending more taxpayer aid to Ukraine.

Iraqi security forces fired on protesters outside a KFC restaurant in Baghdad on Monday, reportedly wounding three people and arresting 12.

The State Department says the man accused of opening fire on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, was wearing ISIS insignia.

State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters Monday that the proposal President Joe Biden presented Friday was “virtually identical” to proposals that Hamas terrorists had presented in recent weeks.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), State Department, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) all reportedly apologized after members of the communist regime of Cuba received a secret guided tour of Miami International Airport on May 20, in disregard of that country’s status as a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism.

The State Department has reissued a “do not travel” advisory for Venezuela, telling Americans who disobey its suggestions to “draft a will.”

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” that took place on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to the U.S. State Department and the United Nations expressing condolences over the death of Iran’s Ebrahim

A Palestinian state would spell Israel’s “destruction” and the Biden administration’s repeated pressuring of Israel to accept one is “plain stupidity,” according to Religious Zionism Knesset member Simcha Rothman, who described Hamas as a “terror cartel” that exports terrorism globally, insisting that Israel must defeat the radical Gaza-based Islamist terrorist group to “protect its own security and the security of the world.”

The U.S. State Department issued a statement offering condolences to Iran after the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, also known as the “Butcher of Tehran.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday removed Cuba’s communist regime from the State Department’s list of countries “not cooperating fully” against terrorism.

Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said in an interview on Tuesday that his government’s relations with the United States broke down because the Biden administration adopted a “condescending tone and lack of respect.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) criticized the State Department’s report on Israel for engaging in meaningless wording and stated that Israel follows standards set for it. Sherman said, [relevant remarks begin around 44:45]

A State Department report on Israel’s use of U.S. weapons tried to please both pro- and anti-Israel voices, creating a slew of contradictory headlines.

Hala Rharrit, the Arabic-language spokesperson for the State Department, has quit in protest against U.S. support for Israel in the war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza who murdered 1200 in an unprovoked terror attack on October 7.

An Ecuadoran national was allowed to visit the United States on a visa despite being wanted for rape in his native country, federal officials reveal. 

The 2023 edition of the State Department’s annual human rights report blasts China for repression, torture, and genocide.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the Biden administration’s reported decision Saturday to slap sanctions on a unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for alleged human rights abuses against Palestinians in the past.

State Department Principal Deputy Press Secretary Vedant Patel confirmed Thursday that the U.S. will veto a United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution that would have allowed Palestinians to achieve recognition of statehood.

Haiti finally announced the membership of its “presidential transition council” on Tuesday, taking an important step toward removing unelected and wildly unpopular Prime Minister Ariel Henry from power and possibly ending the massive gangster insurrection that has plagued the country since February.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN National Security Correspondent Kylie Atwood discussed her report on transcripts of congressional testimony by State Department officials John Bass, James DeHart, and Jayne Howell where DeHart said that tactical operations to get important people to

The State Department said on Wednesday that while the Biden administration remains committed to a “two-state solution” for Israel and the Palestinians, it opposes the Palestinian effort to negotiate statehood at the United Nations.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued an official statement recognizing “Transgender Day of Visibility” on Sunday, as the Biden administration faces backlash for celebrating it on the same day as Easter, one of the holiest days in the Christian religion.

Nigeria’s police chief on Thursday ordered around-the-clock enhanced security at public venues across the country throughout the Easter weekend, fearing religious violence in a country where Christians are under almost constant attack.

Wall Street Journal reporter and American citizen Evan Gershkovich marked one year in captivity as a hostage of Russia on March 29.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “Amanpour,” Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs at the State Department Roger Carstens stated that Russia made it “pretty clear, immediately” that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich “was being taken and used as a bargaining

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with a group of visiting U.S. business leaders in Beijing on Wednesday, making a bid to lure much-needed foreign investment back into China’s flagging economy. Xi promised the economy would stabilize, and said overseas businessmen need not fear persecution by his authoritarian government.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced a one-page bill on Thursday that would prohibit embassies and other diplomatic missions, as well as official American government vehicles, from displaying non-U.S. flags larger and higher than the American flag.

State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters in a briefing on Tuesday that the U.S. shares the goal of “degrading” Hamas — avoiding the use of the word “defeating,” in an apparent shift of U.S. policy on the Gaza war.

The State Department on Saturday announced it was arranging “a charter flight” for U.S. citizens from Cap-Haïtien International Airport, but warned that they would have to get to the airport on their own and that the nearly six-hour drive from Port-au-Prince is “dangerous.”

A consulting firm called Gladstone AI published a report commissioned by the State Department this week that recommended more government involvement with the development of artificial intelligence (A.I.) to avert “urgent and growing risks to national security,” which could metastasize into an “extinction-level threat to the human species.”