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President Joe Biden’s State Department is partnering with hundreds of multinational corporations to open a jobs program for refugees arriving in the United States as the nation’s labor force participation rate remains at historical lows. 

The White House on Monday announced $55 billion in economic aid, health care, and security support for Africa. President Joe Biden hosted a meeting for African leaders that began on Tuesday, during which the White House promised more details of the massive benefits package would be divulged.

Former WNBA star Brittney Griner was reportedly released by Russia in a prisoner swap for the notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, according to a US official.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said Jerusalem must be a city for Israelis and Palestinians, and anything else will harm Israel’s identity and security.

Too much is never enough, NATO ministers were told in Romania on Tuesday, as they met to drum up more support for Ukraine, including a direct U.S. call for increased deliveries of electrical components for the war-torn country’s devastated power transmission network.

The United States confirmed Wednesday night it is sending Ukraine another $400 million in lethal military aid, topping up more than $19.7 billion in weapons and other equipment already drawn from DoD stocks since the conflict began on Feb. 24.

Haitian gang leader Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier announced on Sunday that his thugs have magnanimously decided to allow fuel shipments to resume from the Varreux terminal, which they have been blockading with barricades and trenches since September, creating nationwide fuel shortages and making Haiti’s humanitarian crisis even worse.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a phone conversation with his Chinese counterpart Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday in which the latter chided Blinken to “stop trying to put up new obstacles to bilateral relations.”

The Biden White House announced Friday a new weapons package worth $275 million is destined for Ukraine, bringing the total U.S. military aid to Kyiv to more than $18.5 billion since January 2021.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared to walk back some of Washington’s condemnation of Saudi Arabia on the grounds that Riyadh was too friendly to Russia on Wednesday, crediting the Saudis for “positive developments” such as humanitarian aid for Ukraine.

During an interview with ABC News on Wednesday released on Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken reacted to the recent OPEC+ oil production cut by saying that because we’re in a period where we’re attempting to bring back economic growth,

(AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was “doing everything right” in its nearly eight-month invasion of Ukraine despite a string of embarrassing defeats against Kyiv’s forces, who will receive $725 million in new U.S. military assistance.

October 15 marks the last day of this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month — one the administration of leftist President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats marked with a string of embarrassing gaffes and episodes of discrimination that will likely do little to improve the party’s poor prospects with Hispanic Americans.

CARACAS – Secretary of State Antony Blinken denied on Thursday that the Biden Administration is seeking to provide sanctions relief to Venezuela’s socialist regime – while tacitly legitimizing dictator Nicolás Maduro by promoting the idea of holding “free and fair” elections against him in 2024.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued his ongoing tour of Latin America, landing in Peru on Thursday, where the Organization of American States (OAS) will be holding its annual General Assembly.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Palestinian Americans at the sidelines of the United Nations he told off Secretary of State Antony Blinken for the Biden administration’s inaction in pressuring Israel into peace talks, calling the top American diplomat a “little boy.”

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro said during a press conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Bogotá on Monday that Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for Colombian nationals in America was “necessary” in anticipation of a global “exodus” allegedly caused by climate change.

The State Department announced Thursday a decision to appoint President Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff’s wife to serve as a diplomat for “biodiversity and water resources.”

Invoking history ranging from the U.S. war in Iraq in the early 2000s to the 20th-century Cold War to a 19th-century U.S. policy that essentially proclaimed American influence over the Western Hemisphere, Lavrov portrayed the U.S. as a bully that tries to afford itself “the sacred right to act with impunity wherever and wherever they want” and can’t accept a world where others also advance their national interests.

U.S. representatives told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday that Iran is not cooperating with the Biden administration’s reckless effort to revive former president Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). This glum assessment was the latest of many signs that the Iran nuclear deal might dead, at least until after the U.S. midterm elections.

Ukraine claimed a military breakthrough against Russian invaders as the U.S. unveiled another $2.8 billion in military aid.

Europe in general and Ukraine in particular will benefit from major new military aid worth more than two billion dollars unveiled Thursday by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), a National Guard Green Beret colonel, said there has been “zero accountability” for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan one year ago, with Americans still stuck inside the country.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday urging the State Department to consider imposing sanctions, including a ban on entering America, on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, one of the region’s most prominent leftists.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is pressing Democrat President Joe Biden directly for answers on the anniversary of the terrorist bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport that left 13 American servicemen and women dead and their families’ lives forever changed.

South African International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor lectured American counterpart Antony Blinken on Western nations “bullying” the continent and denounced democratic states seeking “to teach a country” how to be free in remarks highlighted by the news portal All Africa on Wednesday.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech Monday at the University of Pretoria in South Africa in which he purported to outline the Biden administration’s new strategy toward Africa — though he simply recycled old platitudes.

A Russian court sentenced American basketball player Brittney Griner to nine and a half years in prison on drug charges Thursday morning, renewing rumors that the Biden administration might trade Russian gun-running supervillain Viktor Bout – and perhaps even other high-value prisoners demanded by Moscow – in exchange for Griner’s freedom.

The head of a United Nations probe against Israel has come under fire after a member of the inquiry panel was quoted as saying social media was controlled by the “Jewish lobby” and Israel, which is in “systematic violation” of all human rights law, and should not even be included in the globalist body.

The United States has reportedly offered the Russian government a deal to free two imprisoned Americans, WNBA star Brittney Griner and corporate security executive Paul Whelan.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) led several of her Republican colleagues in reaching out to top Biden administration officials on Wednesday about an exemption the administration made to a section of immigration law that addresses ties to terrorism.

The Biden Administration rebuffed calls from human rights activists and congressional leaders on Monday by refusing to restore the murderous Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen to the list of foreign terrorist organizations. President Joe Biden delisted the Houthis as one of his first acts in office. The insurgents have engaged in constant acts of terrorism and escalating violence ever since.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi presented his American counterpart, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, with four separate lists of Communist Party demands during a meeting this weekend that included an “updated list of U.S. wrongdoings that must stop.”

Ballistic analysis of the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in May was inconclusive, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, but added it was “likely” an Israeli soldier mistakenly fired the fatal shot.

The Palestinian Authority said on Saturday it would transfer the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh to American officials for forensic testing, in the hopes of identifying whether the fatal shot fired was from an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian gunman.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent a message to State Department employees saying he has launched a review on how all employees can access abortions going forward.