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The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that applications to join the Foreign Service have reached their highest level in ten years, reflecting a sharp increase in interest since President Donald Trump returned to office and appointed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State.

The U.S. State Department announced it would rescind the visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro after he urged American soldiers to defy orders from President Donald Trump and compared Israel’s military actions in Gaza to the Holocaust during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York City.

The U.S. should be revoking the visas of foreigners relishing in the murder of a political figure like Charlie Kirk, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during an interview with Fox News.

A U.S. Department of State employee was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for conspiring to transmit classified national defense information to individuals he believed were working for the Chinese government.

The U.S. State Department has revoked over 6,000 student visas this year after those who held them either broke the law or supported terrorism, a department official said.

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.”

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.

A group of families who had their loved ones slaughtered by drug cartels are asking the Trump administration to designate the Juarez Cartel and its armed wing La Linea, as foreign terrorist organizations. The move would place that cartel on the same list as six other Mexican cartels previously designated as FTOs

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday announced the formation of a Middle East Task Force to support Americans abroad amid rising tensions in the region.

Authorities in Mexico are looking into the targeted killing of two men and the injury to a third who provided training to Mexican police agencies and worked as advisors for the U.S. Department of State and other agencies.

Las autoridades mexicanas investigan el asesinato de dos hombres donde un tercero quedo herido; ellos impartían capacitación a agencias policiales mexicanas y trabajaban ocasionalmente como asesores para el Departamento de Estado de USA y otras agencias.

The head of Budapest’s Office for the Protection of Sovereignty claimed that tens of millions of dollars from the United States and the European Union have funded left-leaning media institutions over the past three years, with the intent of overthrowing the conservative government of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.

An ex-U.S. State Department worker under former President Joe Biden (D) has pleaded guilty to embezzlement from the agency.

The Mexican band Los Alegres del Barranco, a group that glorifies the drug cartels in many of its songs, has had its visas canceled by the Trump administration ahead of a planned concert in San Francisco.

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. State Department revoked the visas of members of a Mexican band after they projected the face of a drug cartel boss onto a large screen during a performance in the western state of Jalisco over the weekend.

Four members of a Mexican music group lost their work and tourist visas to the U.S. after they opened a show in Mexico praising and showing images of the leader of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). This cartel has been labeled as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Government. The musicians are also under investigation in Mexico for the charge of “crime apology or advocacy.”

The Trump administration has reportedly revoked the visa of a student who protested in favor of Hamas, the Islamic terrorist organization which attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Fox News.

Forty years after the kidnapping, torture, and brutal murder of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, one of the men responsible for his death finally did a perp walk as he got out of a plane into the waiting hands of U.S. agents. The criminal spent decades in Mexico under the protection of top government officials.

Mexican authorities extradited the two supreme leaders of Los Zetas just hours before that country’s security cabinet was set to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his staff.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum filed a controversial series of changes to the country’s constitution that would essentially block any investigation or action by foreign law enforcement agencies without their permission. The provisions could enable Mexico to criminally pursue anyone involved in those investigations. The changes come after the United States designated six Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and announced the intent to eradicate them.

The U.S. Department of State designated six Mexican drug cartels, the Salvadoran Mara Salvatrucha and the Venezuelan Tren De Aragua gang, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, confirming a prior report by Breitbart Texas. The New York Times has mistakenly reported that the list included a Colombian cartel that was not designated as such.

The Trump administration is preparing to designate a series of Mexican drug cartels and two from Central and South America as foreign terrorist organizations. The move comes as Mexico continues to experience unprecedented levels of violence, including the widespread use of landmines and improvised explosive devices, despite empty government claims that crime has decreased and impunity has ended.

The U.S. Congress has upbraided Secretary of State Antony Blinken for “surreptitiously” introducing an LGBTQ+ agenda into international American diplomacy.

The Biden-Harris administration refuses to publicly condemn threats against American freedom of speech by the European Union over an interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk on his social media platform X last month, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has revealed.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that his staff was sending a diplomatic notice complaining about the actions of U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar by interfering in judicial reform. The reforms called for having judges in Mexico be elected rather than selected. The U.S. diplomat published a letter warning that the proposed judicial reform could damage the country’s democracy and hurt the commercial relationship between the two countries.

The State Department announced on Tuesday that a landmark nuclear cooperation agreement has gone into effect, allowing the U.S. to export peaceful nuclear technology to the Philippines.

Four U.S. university instructors working in China were wounded in a stabbing attack at a public park on Monday, their employer said.  Beijing officials later described it as an “isolated” incident.

President Joe Biden hopes for a ceasefire “by next Monday” in the Israel-Hamas war, pausing to offer his reflections while enjoying another much-favored ice cream break.

The Biden administration is shifting its cold and bullying stance toward El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele after his big reelection victory.

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele cheerfully brushed off criticism from embattled U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Wednesday, saying he and his country were “honored” to receive her attacks “just days before OUR election.”

Chinese officials and state media predictably set their hair on fire after Lai Ching-te won Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday, extending the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) hold on power to an unprecedented third term.

U.S. federal prosecutors charged former diplomat Victor Manuel Rocha with multiple federal crimes on Monday after an FBI investigation found evidence that Rocha acted as an undercover spy for Cuba’s communist Castro regime for over 40 years.

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.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken embraced the creative soul of Muddy Waters on Wednesday to help launch a global initiative to elevate music as a diplomatic tool, picking up a guitar and singing the American blues legend’s iconic ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’ at the state department.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller on Monday addressed reports that a U.S. citizen died in Iran’s infamous Evin prison after his captors denied him medical care. Miller said the individual “is not a U.S. citizen to our knowledge.”

A group of senior U.S. officials, including a deputy assistant secretary of state and the commander of the coalition against the Islamic State, visited Syria’s oil-rich Deir al Zor province on Sunday to manage a conflict between its Kurdish rulers and insurgent Arab tribes.