The University of Massachusetts Amherst has reversed its recently announced policy of banning foreign students from Iran who wish to enroll in advanced graduate courses with content related to the development of nuclear capabilities.
The governments of Egypt and Saudi Arabia have expressed outrage over the warm visit Muslim Brotherhood members allegedly received at the White House in January, which the State Department eventually admitted to only after the Muslim Brotherhood members boasted of their visit on social media.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf declined to backtrack on remarks she had made previously on the the same network’s show “Hardball” earlier this week in which she said that the United States
A State Department spokesperson hints the military won’t be able to defeat ISIS, but that a jobs program might.
The State Department spokesperson has the task of defending the president’s foreign policy more often than any other government official. During President Barack Obama’s first term, that unenviable task fell to the opaque Victoria Nuland, whose redeeming feature was that there was a spine behind the smokescreen. (“F*** the E.U.,” she famously said, albeit in private, on Russia and the Ukraine.) Not so with successors Jen Psaki and Marie Harf, the clueless defending the hopeless.
The State Department is confirming it has closed the U.S. Embassy in Yemen and evacuated its staff because of the political crisis and security concerns following the takeover of much of the country by Shiite rebels.
UPDATE: Psaki has since tweeted that the attack “was an anti-semitic attack that took the lives of innocent people.” We have always been clear that the attack on the kosher grocery store was an anti-semitic attack that took the lives
An effective retaliation against the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) would require 100,000 boots on the ground, according to the former CIA deputy director.
You can disagree with him all you’d like on immigration reform, but Florida Senator Marco Rubio is correct in saying that this easing of sanctions and normalizing of relations with the murderous Castro regime in Cuba will not end the human rights atrocities that have been going on in that country since Fidel Castro first took over.
China builds more man-made islands in the South China Sea; Pentagon would welcome Japan air patrols in the South China Sea; Jordan returns its ambassador to Israel
Moments before he reportedly died in his Saudi Arabian hotel under suspicious circumstances, American defense contractor Christopher Cramer texted, “I’m at the Marakim [sic] Tabuk Hotel in Saudi. I think something bad is going to happen to me tonight. Please contact state ddept [sic] ASAP. Bad things were said.”
An official U.S. State Department transcript revealed that Georgetown University had “organized and funded” a recent trip for members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood to the United States.
The State Department won’t allow key witnesses to testify about Benghazi, saying it must protect their safety.
WASHINGTON — Obama’s State Department wants to keep the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital open for as long as possible, but the Pentagon is pushing for an evacuation before the situation worsens.
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld said that James Taylor’s performance in Paris during a State Department visit was an indication that America was “run by camp counselors” on Friday’s broadcast of “The Five.” After playing a clip of Taylor’s
State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf said that the United States faces threats from extremism aside from Islamic radicalism, but couldn’t name any specific examples and argued that it was “simplistic” to argue that there is a “common thread” between
A new version of the standing travel advisory issued by the U.S. Department of State now includes a resort area that had remained relatively calm, but in recent months has seen a sharp spike in cartel violence.
Tuesday, reporters got into a heated exchange with State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf over the Untied States’ possible involvement in North Korea’s internet outage. Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
At least thirty-one individuals, including twenty schoolgirls, were killed Tuesday by two simultaneous car bombs planted by an al-Qaeda affiliate in Radaa, Yemen. The car bomb attacks were reportedly executed by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and meant to
After seven months, the House Benghazi Select Committee held its second hearing recently. We monitor its proceedings closely. The Select Committee’s very existence is because of our uncovering of a key White House Benghazi scandal cover-up email. Chairman Trey Gowdy
The fate of a U.S. citizen who illegally crossed the Chinese border into North Korea remains in limbo as the nation lent the man its airwaves for an extensive press conference condemning the American government. Twenty-nine-year-old Arturo Pierre Martínez has
After hitting a standstill that took the Lima, Peru, climate talks two days past their scheduled end, representatives from countries around the world secured a temporary agreement on December 14. The Associated Press reported the UN global warming talks in Lima had
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A torrential downpour dropping 10 trillion gallons of water inundated the northern part of the drought-stricken Golden State on Friday before working its way down to the southern part of the state. Yet even with the huge amount of rainfall
This week Citizens United sued the State Department in federal court over its unlawful withholding of documents relating to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. We are currently in pre-production for a sequel to our landmark film Hillary: The
The Islamic State has gained momentum in both Syria and Iraq while allegedly “moderate” groups against President Bashar al-Assad in the former nation have suffered increasing setbacks. With the outlook dire, even the U.S. State Department is admitting that a
