The Trump administration is redirecting $175 million from the State Department's Human Rights and Democracy Fund to groups including a $40 million anti-communism fund, white Afrikaner advocacy in South Africa, and Brexit deregulation campaigns.

via US news | The Guardian — ‘The era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over,’ state department spokesperson says Donald Trump ’s administration has withdrawn the United States from the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring body, arguing that paying to belong to the multilateral group no longer serves US interests. The US formally notified the Strasbourg-based organization on Monday that it was leaving the Group of States against Corruption, known as Greco – the latest step in a broader effo

The U.S. will expand enhanced social media screening to I, TN and TD visa applicants from October 1, adding online presence reviews to more visa categories.

via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — US State Department Spokesman Tommy Pigott says President Donald Trump ‘holds all of the cards’ in talks with Tehran.

Secetary Rubio hosts an Arctic 7 meeting U.S. Department of State Sep 21, 2026 #StateDepartment #DepartmentofState #Diplomacy Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts an Arctic 7 meeting in New York City, New York, on September 21, 2026. ---------- Under the leadership of the President and Secretary of State, the U.S. Department of State leads America’s foreign policy through diplomacy, advocacy, and assistance by advancing the interests of the American people, their safety and economic prosperity. On behalf of the American people we promote and demonstrate democratic values and advance a free, peaceful, and prosperous world. The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President's chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President's foreign policies through the State Department, which includes the Foreign Service, Civil Service and U.S. Agency for International Development.

The U.S. State Department warns Americans traveling in the Middle East to prepare for possible flight cancellations and airspace closures as regional tensions …

via The Hill News — The Trump administration will allow a “core delegation” of Iranian leadership to attend the high-level session of the United Nations General Assembly next week in New York City, a State Department spokesman said Thursday, even as the U.S. and Iran remain at war and negotiations have stalled. The State Department is granting visas for the…

via US news | The Guardian — It is the second year this administration has barred the Palestinian delegation from US travel ahead of the forum The US state department said on Wednesday that it had again denied entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead next week’s United Nations general assembly gathering in New York . The state department said in a statement that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) had “failed to live up to their commitments”, accusing the groups of “taking action

via The Hill News — A pair of influential bipartisan Senators plan to introduce a resolution Wednesday calling on the State Department to bolster cooperation with Russia’s pro-democracy movement inside and outside the country, according to a draft obtained exclusively by The Hill. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) introduced the non-binding resolution to coincide with a major…

Which is not how Canaanite gods work, but is how the State Department works.

A State Department official now serving as Marco Rubio’s chief speechwriter was previously fired from Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign after sharing a video featuring a symbol associated with whit...