U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed Wednesday that it had seized a shipment in Newark, NJ, containing $800,000 worth of human hair originating in Xinjiang, China, where the Communist Party maintains concentration camps.
China will impose visa restrictions on U.S. individuals who have “acted viciously” on issues related to Hong Kong, China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.
White House Adviser Ivanka Trump on Thursday marked the State Department’s 20th year in fighting human trafficking — an issue she has personally worked to elevate within the administration.
The State Department announced on Monday that it is designating four Chinese-owned media outlets in the United States as “foreign missions” or, essentially, arms of the Chinese government.
Non-Muslims in Iran suffer persecution at the hands of the government, including imprisonment, torture, and execution, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2019 Report on International Religious Freedom.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims extends beyond China’s borders and into foreign countries, with Beijing ordering Chinese diplomats to “harass and intimidate” members of the ethnic group in Japan, the U.S. State Department’s 2019 Religious Freedom Report on Japan revealed on Wednesday.
The U.S. State Department concluded in its annual religious freedom report released Wednesday that Venezuela is not a safe place to be a Christian, due to the widespread attacks on churches by the Maduro regime and its paramilitaries.
The U.S. State Department made tentative plans to reopen its consulate in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Wednesday, while Chinese state media brusquely told them not to bother, since the U.S. has lobbed so many “vicious slanders” at China over the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with survivors of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre at the hands of Chinese communist troops on Tuesday afternoon, amid strained relations between the United States and China over the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and Hong Kong protests.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that President Donald Trump will “take on” the threat of espionage activities by Chinese students and researchers with ties to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and its intelligence apparatus.
The State Department is set to defend a cheap foreign labor program that delivers thousands of au pairs to upper-middle-class and wealthy households at below-market wages.
A senior State Department official suggested the department’s former inspector general was fired in part due to concerns that he was leaking.
President Donald Trump is being criticized by his opponents after firing State Department Inspector General Steve Linick on Friday night. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) called it a “threat to accountable democracy.” However, President Barack Obama did not nominate an inspector general for the State Department during his entire first term.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), one of the Republican Party’s most vocal critics of President Donald Trump, called the administration’s removal of multiple inspector generals a “threat to accountable democracy” and a “fissure in the constitutional balance of power.”
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump is “committed” to holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable for the coronavirus pandemic and will be considering options on how to do so in the near future.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ripped Chinese state-controlled media for attacks against him, U.S. lawmakers, U.S. states, and U.S. media outlets in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News that aired on Saturday.
The State Department’s Inspector General, Steve Linick, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, was fired Friday night.
Carnival Cruise Lines was inundated with bookings after announcing it would return to the high seas starting in August after months of being on Chinese coronavirus lockdown.
China is employing thousands of Twitter bots as part of its disinformation campaign to portray itself as the leader in global coronavirus recovery efforts instead of the source of the pandemic, according to an analysis by the State Department’s Global Engagement Center.
A group of 50 to 70 Afghan migrants attempting to cross the border into Iran were allegedly beaten, tortured, and in some cases drowned by Iranian security guards on May 1. On Wednesday the Iranian regime officially denied the incident occurred and accused the United States of slandering Tehran by repeating the accusations.
President Trump revealed on Tuesday that his executive order pausing most legal immigration in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis will not keep farmers from fast-tracking foreign workers into the country.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) proposed legislation on Tuesday that would open up the Chinese government to litigation in American courts for its failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) called on the State Department and Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday to bring a case against China in the International Court of Justice for failing to contain the coronavirus.
More than a dozen refugees have been resettled in the United States over the last two weeks despite a State Department order halting the federal program.
The State Department’s temporary suspension of visa processing has stopped the inflow of H-1B foreign visa workers into American white-collar jobs while the Chinese coronavirus crisis drives up United States jobless claims to more than 10 million.
Foreign workers brought to the United States on the H-2A and H-2B visa programs, through a fast-tracked process by the State Department, will only undergo additional medical screening if they have symptoms of the Chinese coronavirus, Breitbart News has learned.
The United States does not need any more foreign labor imported for businesses during record joblessness as a result of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says.
Some 300 employees working at DHS have confirmed cases of coronavirus, and more than 8,500 are now in quarantine.
Former vice president Joe Biden called on President Donald Trump Thursday to offer more aid to Iran, as that country struggles with coronavirus — though the U.S. has already offered aid, and the Iranian regime rejected it.
Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL), a top lieutenant of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unloaded upwards of $50,000 in stock after being briefed about the coronavirus pandemic.
President Trump says he has committed to American farmers to continue admitting large numbers of H-2A foreign visa workers to take agricultural jobs even as jobless claims are set to climb above 3.3 million in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
Despite mass unemployment of Americans during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, federal agencies are accelerating the speed at which foreign workers will be imported to the United States to take blue-collar industry jobs.
The State Department on Thursday advised U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel as the world grapples with the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham says the United States should halt all immigration during the coronavirus crisis.
The State Department is suspending refugee resettlement, at least temporarily, to the United States amid the coronavirus crisis.
Hundreds of Americans are stuck in Peru after the government shut down the country’s borders to slow the number of coronavirus infections.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth has granted our request to depose former secretary of state Hillary Clinton about her emails and Benghazi attack documents.
The total number of known and acknowledged coronavirus cases around the world surpassed 100,000 over the weeked. As of Monday morning, there were 111,356 cases worldwide, with 3,892 fatalities.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States remains “deeply concerned” that Iran may be covering up data relating to the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, calling on nations around the world to “tell the truth” about their situation.
A California lawmaker introduced a bill that would give U.S. passport holders another option than listing their gender as male or female.
