Reuters reported Aug. 31 that the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor plans to spend $4 million to bolster right-wing media in Europe, citing four people familiar with the funding. Three...
Documents obtained by The New York Times and reported Aug. 27 show the administration plans to raise deportation flights to Haiti from once a month to once a week, adding hundreds of removals a month. A U.S. official...
The State Department has paused immigrant visa appointments at U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide so consular officers can complete what a spokesperson called a global "in-depth training" initiative, launched in...
The State Department has removed Kehinde Wiley's Young Artists After Siamesas 1960, a painting it commissioned in 2013 with taxpayer funds for the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, and a senior official said the department...
The United States removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, ending a designation in place since 1979. The removal, posted on the Treasury Department's website, took effect after the 45-day...
The State Department is preparing to revoke the B1 business and B2 tourist visas of up to 200,000 people who have applied for or are seeking asylum in the United States, according to department documents obtained by the...
The State Department approved a $5 million payment to Liberia in December in connection with the arrangement to send third-country deportees there, according to internal documents reviewed by the New York Times...
The administration has told Congress it intends to pay $725 million toward the United Nations regular budget, according to an Aug. 4 State Department notification letter to lawmakers seen by Reuters and first reported...
U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan on Aug. 21 struck down the State Department's suspension of immigrant visas for 75 countries, ruling it "contrary to law" and beyond Secretary of State Marco Rubio's...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday that the administration was sanctioning ICC President Tomoko Akane, a Japanese judge who has led the court since March 2024, and Senegalese senior trial lawyer...