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President Donald Trump revealed that the U.S. military had “shot out” a Venezuelan “drug-carrying boat” on Tuesday, adding that there were a “lot of drugs on that boat.”

The Trump administration has directed American consular posts worldwide to halt approvals of nearly all visitor visas for holders of Palestinian passports, a policy that took effect August 31, 2025, and expands recent restrictions targeting Palestinian travel to the United States.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Friday that the U.S. was “denying and revoking” the visas of senior Palestinian leaders who were set to have attended the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next month.

Marco Rubio announced Friday that Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought will oversee the final closeout of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

President Donald Trump’s deputies are using federal databases for “continuous vetting” of roughly 55 million foreigners who have visas to visit or live in the United States.

The State Department announced a new round of sanctions against employees of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday in response to that institution’s accusations of human rights abuses and international crime against Israel and the United States.

The Trump administration imposed additional sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) for attempting to prosecute American officials, as well as those of allied countries, especially Israel.

Monday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio weighed in on President Donald Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders earlier in the day.

During this week’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected the premise of a question from show host Margaret Brennan that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was going to be “bullied into signing something away.” Rubio

Sunday, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said while discussing the Ukraine-Russia conflict that it is important to remember that “the United States is not in a war.”

The U.S. State Department will announce on Wednesday that it had imposed visa restrictions on unnamed government officials from Grenada and several African states, in addition to members of the Cuban Communist Party, in relation to Havana’s longstanding Cuban health worker slavery scheme.

Top Trump administration officials are drafting plans to restrict both temporary visits and legal immigration by Muslims affiliated with the revolutionary Muslim Brotherhood and other extremist groups.

Switzerland’s president held last-gasp talks with the US secretary of state on Wednesday after she rushed to Washington to avert tariffs.

President Donald Trump suggested that Vice President JD Vance could “most likely” be the “heir apparent” to lead the Make American Great Again (MAGA) movement.

President Donald Trump’s State Department, led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is planning to crack down on the hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals who overstay their visas each year.

India’s state-owned oil refineries stopped buying Russian oil last week, after President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Moscow’s oil customers they could face crushing secondary sanctions for financing the war in Ukraine.

A Colombian judge on Monday convicted conservative former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez on charges of abuse of process and bribery of a public official in a trial widely denounced as irregular by local and international politicians and his supporters.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared on Sunday that Nicolas Maduro is “not the president of Venezuela.” Instead, Rubio says Maduro is the head of a narco-terrorist cartel that has “taken possession of the country.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed U.S. visa restrictions over the weekend on Brazil Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes in response to his involvement in the censorship of the free speech rights of Americans and the political “witch hunt” against former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Ten Americans have headed home to the U.S., released from custody in Venezuela as part of a deal where alleged gang members sent by President Donald Trump to an El Salvador prison served as the critical bargaining chip.

The Trump administration approves of an amended rescissions package that would remove cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, begun under George W. Bush.

A State Department senior official told Breitbart News that the State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) will participate in this week’s Reindustrialize Summit in Detroit, Michigan, as part of its mission to advance the State Department’s labor policy toward the “national interest.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s overhaul of the State Department is well underway as the department cuts waste and streamlines processes, senior officials detailed Monday.

Top Cuban Communist Party officials spent the weekend griping after the U.S. State Department limited visa access.

Cubans around the world marked the fourth anniversary on Friday of the nationwide protests on the island in 2021 in which thousands of people flooded the streets of nearly every major city to demand an end to communism.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday, their first meeting in person since Rubio took office. 

The U.S. State Department on Friday is firing over 1,300 workers in a reorganization plan as President Donald Trump’s administration works to shrink a bloated government.

Yevgeny Primakov, head of Russia’s “cultural diplomacy” agency Rossotrudnichestvo, said on Tuesday that his government plans to launch a foreign aid and development program modeled on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – the agency the Trump administration folded into the State Department due to its profligate spending.

Iran’s state-run PressTV on Wednesday heaped praise on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Palestinians. Albanese was hit with sanctions by the U.S. State Department on Wednesday for engaging in lawfare against Israel and the United States.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the U.S. had slapped sanctions on United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories [sic] Francesca Albanese.

An imposter has been posing as Secretary of State Marco Rubio in order to contact other high-level officials, including foreign ministers and a member of Congress, since at least June, the Washington Post reported.

The Trump administration on Tuesday officially revoked the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian rebel group and former al-Qaeda faction that toppled dictator Bashar Assad in December and took control of Damascus.

An individual posing as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly used an AI-generated voice to call high-level officials in what appears to be an attempt to manipulate government officials to obtain access to information or accounts.

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro apologized to President Donald Trump in a letter for falsely accusing Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others of “plotting” to oust him, Colombian outlets reported on Monday.