The Senate has confirmed former Sen. David Perdue as ambassador to China, just as the U.S. and China are locked in a tariff showdown that threatens to redefine diplomatic relations between the world's two largest economies. Perdue is a former business executive who served one term as a Republican U.S. senator from Georgia.

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll nominate former Senate candidate Herschel Walker as the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas. Trump made the announcement Tuesday in a post on his social media website.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, who got engaged to Trump's son in 2020, is the latest appointee he's chosen from his family tree. There's a long and controversial history of presidents picking relatives for jobs.

The guiding principles of the document, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted by the United Nations in 1948, influenced the civil rights movement and the work of the Carter Center. But at events in Atlanta on Monday, discussions about the UDHR's ideals also acknowledged the difficulties in heeding them.

The government of France has bestowed a further honor on Atlanta's Andrew Young. French Ambassador Laurent Bili promoted Young to an officer in France's Legion of Honor on Thursday in Atlanta.

NPR's A Martínez talks to writer Jason Reynolds, who is ending his term as the national ambassador for young people's literature. The Library of Congress appointed him to the post three years ago.

Brink has served as the U.S. ambassador to Slovakia since 2019. She has more than two decades of experience in the Foreign Service, including stints in Georgia and Uzbekistan.

The U.S. "not only has a higher percentage of political ambassadors, but has a higher percentage ... who don't seem to be temperamentally or intellectually suited for the work," says an ex-diplomat.

As members of the Foreign Service testified before the House Intelligence Committee earlier this month, a lot of Americans probably found themselves...