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News Articles: state department

Cubans line up for appointments at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Jan. 8.

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  • USPS

U.S. to suspend immigrant visas from 75 countries over public assistance concerns

The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States.

January 14, 2026
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, pictured at a ceremony at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington last week, has directed diplomats to bring back Times New Roman as their official font.

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  • Politics

The State Department reinstates an old font, in a typeface about-face

The State Department is swapping out Calibri for Times New Roman in all its official documents, reversing a Biden-era change that aimed to increase accessibility for readers with disabilities.

December 11, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
In this photograph taken on September 2, 2025, Afghan refugee girl Shayma is pictured during an interview with AFP at her residence in Islamabad. Her family had been scheduled to fly to the U.S. in February, before the Trump administration suspended most refugee admissions.

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  • USPS

Trump administration sets lowest-ever cap on refugee admissions to U.S.

The lowest cap on refugees since the program was established in 1980 comes as the U.S. prioritizes resettling Afrikaners from South Africa.

October 30, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives a media briefing during the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting at the in Kuala Lumpur Friday, Malaysia, on July 11, 2025.

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  • Politics

State Department may require some visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000

The State Department said it would start a pilot program that will require cash deposits to tourist and business visas for people from countries with high overstay rates.

August 05, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio listen during an Oval Office meeting at the White House on July 16.

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  • National Security

State Dept. cuts China experts as administration says countering Beijing top priority

The State Department has shuttered the team involved in South China Sea security, getting rid of top experts on the subject at a time when the administration says security in the region is a priority.

July 24, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Tom Bowman
The State Department, which administers the Fulbright Program. Eleven members of the 12-person Fulbright board have resigned over alleged Trump administration interference.

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  • Politics

Almost all of the Fulbright board resigns, citing Trump administration interference

Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
President Trump walks to board Air Force One prior to departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Friday en route to New Jersey for the weekend.

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  • Politics

Trump shrinks National Security Council in major foreign policy shakeup

The NSC has traditionally played a pivotal role in advising the president for his biggest diplomatic and security decisions. But in Trump's second term, it has seen its influence shrink.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Bowman and
  • Franco Ordoñez
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.

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  • World

Marco Rubio defends foreign affairs cuts and Trump's Russia talks in Senate hearing

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is defending major cuts in the foreign affairs budget as he testifies on Tuesday before the Senate committee where he used to serve.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Michele Kelemen
The State Department releases the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices annually.

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  • Investigations

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

April 19, 2025
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By:
  • Graham Smith
Visitors look over a 2024 Cybertruck in the Tesla display at the Electrify Expo, last July.

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  • Politics

Top Democrats ask Rubio for answers on now-canceled $400 million Tesla plan

A letter from two House Democrats presses Rubio for details about who approved an effort to try to use hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on armored electric vehicles from Tesla.

March 07, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A screenshot from the Youtube video from EducationUSA entitled, "What is Unique about a women's college?"

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  • News

State Dept. staffers get mixed messages on how to serve international students

A State Department program meant to convince international students to pursue higher education in the United States can't seem to get answers on whether they're allowed to talk about increasing diversity in U.S. classrooms.

March 04, 2025
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By:
  • Jenna McLaughlin
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) supporters hold banners as USAID workers retrieve their personal belongings from the USAID's headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.

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  • Politics

USAID workers return to HQ to clear their desks, as Trump dismantles the agency

Workers who served in the U.S. Agency for International Development were allowed a final and brief visit back to their offices to clear out their belongings on Thursday.

February 27, 2025
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By:
  • Michele Kelemen
A Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla dealership on Dec. 20 in Corte Madera, California. A State Department procurement document suggested the Trump administration planned to buy $400 million worth of Tesla vehicles to transport diplomats. The administration now says no such purchase is planned.

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  • Technology

A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal

The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

February 24, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Former CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, who has increasingly embraced unfounded conspiracy theories in recent years, is one of several fringe media figures who have surfaced at Trump administration events.

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  • Media

These far-right media figures are getting center stage under Trump

The Trump administration has welcomed far-right media figures in the White House briefing room and elsewhere, even as it restricts access for established news outlets.

February 21, 2025
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By:
  • David Folkenflik and
  • Tom Dreisbach
A USAID officer watches as a US military C-17 cargo plane taxis to a stop at Kathmandu's international airport on May 3, 2015.  International aid continues to pour into Nepal to help victims of a massive earthquake on April 25 killed at least 7,200 people and devastated vast swathes of one of Asia's poorest countries.

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  • Global Health

Why does Musk want USAID 'to die'? And why did its website disappear?

Under the Trump administration, the U.S. agency that funds aid projects has faced layoffs, a stop action order for most aid efforts and a disruption of its website. Now Elon Musk says it should 'die.'

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
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