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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) immediately criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken for once again leaving Nigeria off the State Department’s annual list of “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC) for religious oppression. 

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny resurfaced on Tuesday, over two weeks after he mysteriously disappeared during a prisoner transfer.

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz slammed the Biden administration, describing it as the “most anti-Israel” one the United States has ever had.

The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and the state of Texas are reportedly suing the U.S. State Department for funding “censorship enterprises” and blacklisting.

New York Times best-selling author, Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute president Peter Schweizer said Tuesday on 770 WABC’s “Cats & Cosby” that the Biden administration’s State Department had employed Iranian sympathizers.

The China National Narcotics Control Commission announced on Friday that the Biden administration has lifted sanctions against the Institute of Forensic Science (IFS) at China’s Ministry of Public Security.

President Joe Biden’s State Department is refusing to commit to revoking visas for those foreign nationals in the United States who are espousing support for Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization.

During an interview with CBS News on Monday, State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel responded to a question on what pressure the U.S. is applying to open the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza to get American nationals

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues David Satterfield told him that Hamas does have tunnels under hospitals, but “when you have a hospital full of

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Faulkner Focus,” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that the members of the State Department criticizing the Biden administration for not criticizing Israel enough are part of “the AOC, Rashida Tlaib

Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) introduced a bill in the House of Representatives on Wednesday to ban consulting firms with ties to China, Russia, and other enemy states from signing lucrative contracts with the State Department.

On Tuesday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stated that there have been officials in the government who tried to kneecap the agenda of the elected president, such as leaks during the Trump administration, and

A State Department official admitted that requiring border crossers to first seek asylum in Mexico would drastically cut illegal immigration. 

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Friday evening called on the United States to support Israel “for as long as it takes,” as the Middle East democracy began its ground offensive against Hamas terrorists that killed more than 1,400 in brutal terrorist attacks on October 7.

Americans who were in Israel during the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack were left stranded, unable to reach U.S. Embassy officials, forcing them to stay or make their own way out of the country, according to an American who shared her experience with Breitbart News.

A senior civil servant at the State Department resigned on Wednesday over the Biden administration’s provision of weapons to Israel after Hamas conducted terrorist attacks in southern Israel on October 7, killing more than 1,200.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has called on the international community to support his country’s determination to quash “murderous Islamic terrorism” before it expands across global borders. 

An estimated 500 to 600 American citizens are in the Gaza Strip, with some looking for safe passage out, according to two reports.

Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) said Tuesday on CNN’s “The Source” that the Biden administration needed to “work faster” to get U.S. citizens out of Israel.

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller responded to concerns that the billions of dollars in money unfrozen by a prisoner swap with Iran brokered by the Biden administration could enable future pro-terrorist activity by

The Biden State Department deleted a Saturday post on X that called on Israel for restraint after Hamas launched terrorist attacks across the country, killing more than 600 Jews — many of them civilians.

During an interview with Newsmax on Saturday, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) reacted to a since-deleted post from the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs where it reacted to the attack on Israel by Hamas by stating that it condemned the Hamas

The Biden administration, through the State Department, has allegedly granted more than $90,000 to a Palestinian non-governmental organization that vocally supports terrorism against Israelis and associates with terror groups.

Hackers purportedly linked to the Chinese government infiltrated the State Department after hacking a Microsoft employee earlier this summer, pilfering around 60,000 emails from the inboxes of 10 employees, revealing sensitive information including travel itineraries and diplomatic deliberations.

At least 2,000 fatalities have been reported in Libya’s eastern city of Derna after dams burst in a torrential rainstorm.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions for human rights violations against Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, a senior commander in Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a brutal paramilitary force led by Dagalo’s brother Mohammed Hamdan Daglo.

The military junta in control of Niger since July 26 announced on Sunday that, in response to a threat of invasion by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), it would shut down the country’s airspace and issue an “energetic and instant response” to any unauthorized flights over its territory.

Republican senators, led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, are threatening to delay President Joe Biden’s State Department nominees over policies prohibiting U.S. scientific research aid to certain Israeli-held territories in what the lawmakers refer to as an “antisemitic boycott of Israel.”

House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) blasted the State Department on Tuesday for declining to provide information about the suspension of Iran envoy Rob Malley for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

President Joe Biden’s State Department gave a B-2 tourist visa to a Brazilian national convicted of murder. The man ultimately overstayed his visa and had to be deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

The Biden administration released a State Department review of its botched Afghanistan withdrawal the Friday before the July Fourth holiday weekend, in what Republicans say was an attempt to bury its release.

The Biden administration hid the suspension of Iran envoy Rob Malley from Congress, after he lost his security clearance earlier this year amid an investigation into alleged mishandling of classified materials.

On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” CNN National Security Correspondent Kylie Atwood said the State Department waited a year to release its report on the withdrawal from Afghanistan on the Friday before the July 4 holiday weekend because the State Department

President Joe Biden on Friday insisted he made no mistakes with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left 13 American troops dead and more injured. He made his comments following the State Department’s release of an “after action review” of the bungled exit.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Biden administration for imposing an anti-Israel “boycott” following its “outrageous” and “antisemitic” reversal of President Donald Trump’s policy of allowing cooperation between U.S. universities and Israeli institutions in Judea and Samaria.

On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” outgoing U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz stated that “we need to continue to build some wall” along the border and that the State Department needs to work “to instill some consequences for some