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US to suspend visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says

The memo, first reported by Fox News, instructs US US embassies to deny visas under existing law while the department reassesses its procedures.

Federal officers patrol the halls of immigration court as people await the start of their hearings at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on January 13, 2026 in New York City.
Imran Ahmed, founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate

Trump administration moves to revoke residency of antisemitism researcher

The State Department's Farsi account issues a warning that you should not "play games with President Trump," January 4, 2026.

'Trump is a man of action,' US warns Iranian regime in Farsi-language message

J-10 fighter jets of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force's Bayi aerobatic team release colored smoke during a flypast rehearsal ahead of military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China August 24, 2025.

Chinese jets directed fire-control radar at Japanese aircraft, Japan says


Rubio signs declaration to expedite delivery of $4 billion in military aid to Israel

Rubio said he had used emergency authority to expedite the delivery of military assistance to Israel to its Middle East ally, now in a fragile ceasefire with Hamas militants in their war in Gaza.

 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, February 16, 2025.

Trump orders revamp of US diplomatic corps to ensure they follow his agenda

Donald Trump has ordered a major State Department overhaul, empowering Rubio to reshape foreign service and enforce an "America First" agenda amid growing bureaucratic upheaval.

 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) react during a campaign event at Dorton Arena, in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. November 4, 2024.

Speechwriter fired over white nationalist ties appointed to high-level State Department role

Trump administration draws fire for naming Darren Beattie, a former White House staffer dismissed over white nationalist ties, to senior State Department role shaping public diplomacy.

 Darren Beattie, a former White House speechwriter who attended a conference with white supremacists, speaks at a "Symposium at the Wall," a 2019 gathering on border security, immigration asylum and other issues in Sunland Park, New Mexico.

Trump announces sweeping first-day executive orders and record declassifications

Classified documents regarding the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK are to be released. Trump added that "other topics of great interest" will have classified records declassified.

 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally the day before he is scheduled to be inaugurated for a second term, in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2025.

Israeli regional power should be embraced, says ex-US State Department adviser

During a roundtable discussion hosted by the JCFA and attended by ‘The Post,’ Hazem Alghabra, a former senior US State Department adviser, suggested Israel extend a message of peace to Syria.

 Hazem Alghabra and JCFA President Dan Diker.

Venezuela's Maduro says two US citizens arrested among group of 'mercenaries'

Maduro said the detained US citizens were "very high level" but did not provide further details or evidence of the arrests.

 PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA Nicolás Maduro speaks to the press in Caracas.

US proposes $8b. arms deal with Israel, including fighter jet munitions

The deal would need approval from House and Senate committees and includes artillery shells and air-to-air missiles for fighter jets to defend against threats such as drones.

 US President Joe Biden (Illustrative)

'Every shot fired went into a man': Syrians recall horrors at site of suspected mass killings

Tadamon became infamous after a video emerged in 2022 showing a man in military fatigues leading unarmed, blindfolded men towards a large ditch.

 An elderly woman reacts in Tadamon district, littered with bones after what residents and rights groups described as years of killings there under the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, following al-Assad's ousting by fighters of the ruling Syrian body, in Damascus, Syria, December 12, 2024.

US flies freed American Travis Timmerman out of Syria, official says

Timmerman went missing in June, according to his parents and was freed from prison earlier in the week after Syrian rebel groups ousted Assad.

 Travis Pete Timmerman, a US citizen who went missing in Syria, speaks to press after being found following the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Syria on December 12, 2024.

Amnesty International genocide allegations are 'unfounded,' US State Dept. says

"People are entitled to draw their own conclusions. We disagree with the conclusions of such a report," the State Department Deupty Spokesperson said.

A child walks around a fake tank parked outside the US embassy during a protest held by Amnesty International in Mexico City.