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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.

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.

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.

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.”

The U.S. Southern Command deployed Marine counter-terrorism specialists to protect the U.S. Embassy in Haiti.

American missionaries trapped in Haiti pleaded for rescue on Tuesday, reporting constant gunfire and corpses in the streets.

The government of Kenya temporarily backed out of sending its police officers to Haiti to help quell out-of-control gang violence in the country, stating on Tuesday that the lack of a coherent government to approve the deployment in Port-au-Prince gives the plan “no anchor.”

Cuba’s Communist Party has long disparaged legitimate political opponents as “terrorists,” but giving the slur a “legal veneer” by formally accusing U.S.-based journalists, activists, and others of the crime elevates the threat to their persons, human rights activists told Breitbart News.

During an interview with CBS on Wednesday, State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel responded to a question on what the U.S. is doing to ensure that the aid it is dropping into Gaza will get to the right people

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resurfaced in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, having disappeared from public view after a meeting in Kenya.

President Joe Biden’s State Department allowed a convicted child rapist from Brazil to come to the United States on a B-2 tourist visa, federal officials reveal.

The State Department reportedly told staffers in a memo they should avoid using gendered phrases like “mother” or “father” for fear of offense.

The U.S. State Department accused North Korea of shipping more than 10,000 containers of munitions to Russia for use against Ukraine.

The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal from Evan Gershkovich, the American reporter detained on highly dubious espionage allegations.

The parliament of Senegal voted on Tuesday to delay the February 25 presidential election until December 15, sparking violent protests across the country.

The MEK Iranian dissident organization “poses the greatest internal existential danger to the oppressive Iranian Regime.”

Qatari Ambassador to the U.S. Meshal bin Hamad al-Thani allegedly attempted to interfere in both American and European Union politics.

A group of congressional Republicans, led by Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), introduced a bill on Friday to ban American federal government agencies from giving grants or other taxpayer money to the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud said Saudi Arabia was making “good progress” on relations with Israel before the October 7 Hamas attack.

The U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Wednesday, banning him and his sons from entering the United States because of his alleged “involvement in significant corruption.”

Citing his book, “A Savage Republic,” Michael Savage offered advice to Trump, insisting, “We can no longer play defense against the left.”

Multiple American corporate media outlets reported on Tuesday that leftist President Joe Biden is considering adding Ansarullah, the Yemeni terrorist organization commonly known as the Houthis, to the list of specially designated global terrorist (SDGT) groups.