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“Shitshow” infighting has begun to occupy the White House Tuesday as thousands of American citizens are stranded within Afghanistan.

President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to expand the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) despite warnings from investigators who reviewed failures in the immigration system after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Blinken announced a new program to help resettle Afghan refugees in the U.S. as part of Biden’s plans to end U.S. military involvement there.

After a swastika was found etched into the wall at the State Department building, President Joe Biden said Tuesday there was no place for antisemitism in his administration.

During a State Department briefing, on Tuesday an Associated Press reporter calls out the Department spokesperson, Ned Price for not being prepared.

The U.S. State Department on Thursday added Turkey to a list of countries implicated in the recruitment of child soldiers, India’s WION news site reported on Friday.

The U.S. State Department is expected to announce a major passport policy change on Wednesday, allowing passport applicants to select their sex without any sort of certifying medical documents, thereby erasing the concept of biological sex in favor of gender ideology.

Roughly 4,000 Iraqi nationals filed fraudulent refugee claims to enter the United States, including about 500 of which who have already been resettled in the U.S.,  thanks to a program initially created by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and former President George W. Bush.

Apple Daily on Friday reported eager customers lining up at midnight to buy the newspaper after five of its senior executives were arrested under Beijing’s tyrannical “national security law” and Hong Kong’s security minister warned the public to “keep a distance” from the publication.

Bassem Naim from Hamas’ Office of International Relations released a statement, Friday, to denounce the recent remarks made by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), where she “equated” the Palestinian people to the “crimes” of the “Israeli occupation in Palestine” and the “American aggression” in Afghanistan.

China human rights magazine Bitter Winter on Monday accused Pakistan of playing along with “Chinese propaganda” by making a splashy public vow to crack down on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), an alleged Uyghur terrorist group that evidence suggests does not exist.

Matt Mowers, the former diplomat and Senior White House Advisor at the State Department under President Donald Trump, told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday he’s thinking about running for congress again, and America needs to hold China accountable for the coronavirus.

The lawmakers expressed “serious concerns” over the Biden administration’s choosing to hire Ariane Tabatabai as a senior advisor to the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

President Joe Biden’s massive $6 trillion budget proposal for the 2022 fiscal year includes hundreds of millions of dollars in restored aid to the Palestinians, some of which President Donald Trump had suspended over concerns about Palestinian support for terror.

President Joe Biden ordered United States intelligence agencies Wednesday to “redouble their efforts” to investigate the origin of the coronavirus, despite ending a State Department investigation under former President Donald Trump seeking the same goal.

The White House confirmed Tuesday that President Joe Biden would meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in June, after signaling weakness with his diplomatic relationship with Russia.

Citing “advances in assisted reproductive technology,” President Joe Biden’s State Department is “updating” the Immigration and Nationality Act that contains the requirements for the granting of U.S. citizenship to children born abroad. The new policy will allow children of married same-sex couples to have a pathway to citizenship even if those children are not related to a U.S. citizen.

The government of El Salvador finalized a sweeping cooperation agreement with the Communist Party of China on Tuesday night, less than 24 hours after the administration of President Joe Biden accused several members of President Nayib Bukele’s government of “corruption.”

The Biden administration plans to scrap the sanctions on the Russian company responsible for the pipeline, despite initial signals that they would not. 

The leaders of Clean Energy for Biden have raked in millions of dollars since President Joe Biden has taken office, and openly support the business which gave his campaign millions, according to the report. 

U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price encouraged the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban to “engage in serious negotiations” to bring peace to Afghanistan on Tuesday, urging them to work together against the Islamic State the day before.

President Joe Biden has sent Hady Amr, a State Department official with a history of anti-Israel views, to Israel in an effort to encourage Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “de-escalate” the Israeli response to Palestinian terrorist rocket attacks.

State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Tuesday that he had witnessed photos of Palestinian children killed amid a barrage of rocket fire from Hamas, and a response from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), and “hard not to look at those pictures and feel a sense of the suffering.”

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (IA) wrote a letter pressing the State Department for additional information regarding Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s financial disclosures.

Politically conservative Jewish groups are calling for President Joe Biden to withdraw his nomination of Sarah Margon to a key human rights post over her support for boycotts of Israel.

The State Department released U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s financial disclosure documents, only after Fox News pressed the agency multiple times to comply with the requests, according to a report. 

The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it will post “Do not Travel” guidance covering 80 percent of countries worldwide because of the coronavirus more than one year after the China-originated virus spread around the world.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Americans and Israelis will be murdered as result of the Biden administration’s decision to send hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority (PA) during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.

Mike Pompeo urged Americans to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing, China, calling them the “Genocide Olympics.

China’s government warned against the idea, threatening a “robust Chinese response” if the United States decided to boycott the Olympics.

The Biden administration announced $250 million in spending Wednesday on the Palestinians, despite a 2018 law that prevents U.S. taxpayer dollars from supporting the Palestinian Authority while it pays stipends and pensions to terrorists and their families.

According to the State Department, the United States is considering joining the boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic games as the Biden Administration is working to organize an international pushback on China.

In a reversal of the Trump administration’s stance on the matter, President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday said that Israel does indeed “occupy” the West Bank.

Jamie Metzl, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adviser to the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), on Monday joined the growing number of scientists and political leaders around the world who questioned the credibility of W.H.O.’s report on the origins of the coronavirus.

The State Department intends to spend $2.5 million to establish the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied efforts to require former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to face a deposition over her unsecured email setup while she served in the Obama administration.