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28 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 24, 2026.
A State Department notice to Congress says the fiscal 2027 refugee slots will go 'primarily' to Afrikaners, at a projected cost of $500 million, while the program stays shut to most other refugees.
Congress has 30 days to block the deal. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said the sale could put 'the crown jewels of American military technology within reach of the Chinese Communist Party.' The kingdom is under daily Houthi attack and just lost its East-West pipeline.
A U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is nearly a year old and Israeli strikes are still killing people there. The Palestinian president will again have to address world leaders by video from Ramallah.
The shooting happened Friday night in the Maphiveni area near the Mozambique border, during an anti-smuggling operation by Africa's last absolute monarchy. Both Americans had 'minor injuries,' the government said, and an investigation is underway.
The U.S. ambassador to Israel met about 10 Palestinian American residents of the West Bank village and said the violence they described cannot go on without investigation and prosecution.
Draft guidance would make a mother's I-94 or green card part of her newborn's passport file — the first concrete machinery behind Trump's Aug. 6 birthright citizenship order.
WatchA collapsing Himalayan glacier dumped more than 100 million cubic meters of ice and rock into the Trishuli valley. Three days later, Nepali police are still counting.
WatchThe U.S. State Department says about 90 Americans may be caught up in the disaster. Nepal's tourism board says 65 of them are still unaccounted for two days after the wall of water came through.
Robert Gilman, 32, was arrested on a train in Voronezh in January 2022 and watched a three-and-a-half-year sentence grow to ten. He was flown out Tuesday on a State Department plane with his mother beside him.
An internal memo reported Thursday extends the administration's public-account screening requirement to foreign media representatives. The department declined to confirm it, citing a policy on 'purported internal documents.'
The State Department raised the bounty on Juan Carlos Valencia González fivefold and announced $102 million in total rewards for leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, six months after Mexican troops killed his stepfather.
The State Department pulled Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti's credentials after Brazil declined to approve Daniel Perez, the speaker of Florida's House and a Rubio ally, as the next U.S. ambassador — two months before a presidential election.
Grenada, Japan, Indonesia, Cameroon and Winnipeg are all losing U.S. missions in a downsizing that is not tied to any war, coup or rupture in relations.
The slide, shown at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio, mislabeled every African country it highlighted. A Reuters analysis found an OpenAI watermark on the image.
Brasília refused entry to Riley Barnes and Samuel Samson, saying the mission was a renewed attempt to delegitimize Brazil's electronic voting system ten weeks before Lula faces Flávio Bolsonaro.
A sweeping new report alleges Havana cultivated American left-wing groups including CodePink and the National Lawyers Guild, drawing swift denials and accusations of a politically motivated witch hunt.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House adviser Stephen Miller urged diplomats to help build a global counterterrorism push against the left, and Rubio announced new visa restrictions — as some allies quietly recoiled.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction stopping the State Department from revoking or denying visas to noncitizens who study disinformation, fact-check, or do trust-and-safety work, finding the government failed to tie them to any foreign manipulation of U.S. debate.
The State Department launched a whole-of-government effort to 'systematically disable' the court, widening sanctions to its prosecutor, judges and a United Nations investigator.
Months after U.S. forces seized Nicolás Maduro, the secretary of state is said to control Venezuela's finances, oil and cabinet appointments — directing its acting president by text message.
The State Department's commemorative passport for America's 250th anniversary depicts President Trump at the Resolute Desk, and it is issued only in person, by appointment, at a single office in Washington.
WatchIn back-to-back hearings, the secretary of state told lawmakers Iran has agreed to discuss aspects of its nuclear work it long refused to address, even as Democrats pressed him over strikes launched without congressional approval.
The American Foreign Service Association says layoffs, forced retirements and buyouts have stripped the U.S. of decades of crisis-response experience and rare language skills just as global conflicts multiply.
The May 19 'sensitive but unclassified' cable directs the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to pressure Palestinian officials to abandon one of the 21 vice-president slots at the next U.N. session, citing Mansour's record of accusing Israel of genocide and warning of possible visa revocation in what former diplomats call an unprecedented threat.
A 1996 welfare law has long allowed denial of new passports for delinquent parents — but the Trump administration is the first to actively cancel passports already in circulation.
A 1996 law has sat largely dormant for decades. The Trump administration is now wielding it against 2,700 passport holders and plans to drop the threshold to $2,500 by late summer.
State Department bypasses congressional review as Persian Gulf countries and Israel face repeated Iranian attacks during ongoing war.
WatchNetanyahu agrees to State Department negotiations next week to discuss disarming Hezbollah — even as Israeli jets struck more than 100 targets in 10 minutes on Wednesday.