Politics, it is said, ought to stop at the water’s edge. Not so for former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Patrick Gaspard, who trashed President Donald Trump and his administration in a visit to his former host country last week.
The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor released a report on the “Prisons of North Korea” this week. As one might imagine, there is precious little democracy or human rights to be found in the report, but plenty of labor.
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton discussed his National Review op-ed on how to get the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear agreement with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday.
A member of a libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute, is blasting the prospect of President Trump soon enacting “extreme vetting” procedures for foreign nationals seeking entry.
President Donald Trump is following through on his promise to implement “extreme vetting” of foreign nationals seeking entry to the United States via Green Cards and the refugee resettlement program.
Major changes may soon be coming for an exchange visa program where hundreds of thousands of young, foreign nationals can enter the U.S. for a variety of jobs.
In testimony published Thursday, Luís Zúñiga – a Cuban dissident who spent 19 years in political prison – detailed his experience seeing the use of “acoustic attacks” on political prisoners to damage their brains and ultimately kill them. His testimony described a tool that resembled theories of how some U.S. diplomats may have been severely injured by sonic devices in Havana.
U.S. diplomats will take China and Russia “at their word” on pledges to uphold sanctions against North Korea, State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Thursday.
Foreign nationals attempting to enter the United States through various visa programs will now have to prove they have the means return to their native countries as federal law mandates.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert could not confirm during the agency’s regular press briefing Wednesday that the United States had stationed on-site medics at its embassy in Havana for diplomats and their families, despite months of attacks on American personnel that have left them with severe hearing loss and brain damage.
The Trump Administration is cracking down on foreign countries refusing to take back their citizens when they are deported.
Dan Kammen, a professor of energy at University of California Berkeley, quit as State Department Science Envoy. His next resignation letter should be addressed to the President of the University of California.
As media outlets and observers try to put together a “doctrine” out of President Donald Trump’s actions during his young tenure in the White House, the role of the State Department in shaping said doctrine has remained elusive.
With remarkably little comment or fanfare, the U.S. government denied $95.7 million in aid to Egypt on Tuesday afternoon, with another $195 million put on hold. The decision was made due to concern with civil liberties and human rights in Egypt, particularly a law regulating non-governmental organizations that took effect in May.
CNN revealed on Sunday that U.S. sources had stated the number of American embassy personnel in Cuba affected by a mysterious wave of sonic attacks that may have left some permanently deaf is significantly higher than initially reported.
With former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon out of the White House, globalists and hawkish interventionists in the Trump administration are reportedly wasting no time in pushing for a bigger U.S. military footprint abroad.
Russia continues to mistreat religious minorities, including assaults on religious figures, arrests and confiscation of religious literature and destruction of property, according to the U.S. State Department’s 2016 International Religious Freedom report.
As State Department holds press conference with Japanese dignitaries, CNN journalist obsess on Steve Bannon’s influence in the White House
TEL AVIV – Iran is constructing a weapons factory for long-range rockets in northwest Syria, Israeli media reported Tuesday.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a fiery response to the U.S. State Department’s accusations of flagrant religious freedom violations in its latest report on Wednesday, insisting America “mind its own business” and “respect the facts.”
Speaking in the gilded Treaty Room at the Department of State on Tuesday, Secretary Rex Tillerson re-confirmed the genocide designation against the Islamic State for its reign of terror in the Middle East and beyond as well as condemning serial human rights abusers Iran and China.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton warned Breitbart News Daily on Friday that North Korea’s nuclear missile technology will soon find its way into Iranian hands. He proceeded to criticize Trump administration officials, like National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, for protecting the Iran nuclear deal despite Iran’s clear violations of the agreement.
A federal judge has ruled that the State Department must up its efforts to locate emails Hillary Clinton sent in connection to the 2012 Benghazi attack — ordering the State Department to conduct a fresh search for emails from some of Clinton’s top aides.
WASHINGTON – State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Thursday that the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba would remain “fully operational” despite reports of American diplomats suffering suspicious physical symptoms that resulted in their departure from the island.
The U.S. State Department confirmed Wednesday that several American diplomats left the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba in May after complaining of “a variety of physical symptoms” triggered by unspecified “incidents.”
The State Department is responding to media inquiries and reports on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson allegedly withholding funding for the Global Engagement Center, tasked with the nebulous job of countering terrorist propaganda online and on social media.
The Global Times, a newspaper published by the government of China, has lauded Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s remarks that the United States does not seek an end to the brutal communist regime of Kim Jong-un in North Korea and would prefer dialogue with it.
At a State Department briefing on Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged that he and President Donald Trump have “differences of views on things like JCPOA and how we should use it.” JCPOA stands for Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran nuclear deal.
Vian Dakhil, the only Yazidi woman serving in the Iraqi parliament, said on Tuesday that the designation of genocide for the crimes committed against the Yazidi people by the so-called Islamic State is “significant” but not enough.
The White House announced last week that Kansas Governor Sam Brownback will be nominated to be Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, a diplomatic post designed to advance protection of religious liberty and rights around the globe.
TEL AVIV — The Obama administration thought the 35-page dossier compiled on President Trump was a “funny, salacious thing,” according to Marie Harf, a former spokesperson and senior official in the State Department under President Obama.
Colombia’s Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terror group are celebrating a “peace” deal reached last year with the government — and rejected by voters — by launching a political party.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss President Trump’s struggle to implement his agenda against opposition from Obama holdovers and the permanent bureaucracy, most notably at the State Department.
Former Fox News personality and current State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters at the State Department daily briefing Tuesday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was “taking a little time off” when reporters asked about inconsistencies in his published schedule and current status.
An Obama-era refugee deal that will resettle more than 1,200 Middle Easterners in the U.S. and tens of thousands of their foreign family members in years to come is an apparent departure from President Donald Trump’s promise of putting “America First.”
The U.S. Department of State found that terrorists conducted attacks in over half the world’s countries, or 53 percent of the 195 recognized nation states, throughout 2016.
Officials from the State and Justice Departments argue a hiring freeze and lack of public interest are responsible for its inability to process and release the 100,000 Hillary Clinton emails as ordered under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, according to a report.
Women now occupy the top spokesperson jobs in the White House and three key government agencies after President Trump chose Sarah Huckabee Sanders to replace Sean Spicer as press secretary.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss his call for President Trump to pull America out of the Iran nuclear deal.
The eighth and last person in the meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr. last June has been identified as a U.S. citizen and employee of a Russian real-estate company, according to a report.
