Herman, a former White House bureau chief who lives in Stafford County, was placed on an indefinite leave of absence with pay ...

The US administration is dismantling USAID's ideological indoctrination programmes abroad while increasing conservative influence at home, particularly in universities, and cracking down on dissent ...

President Trump's second term has been marked by a shift towards isolationism and disregard for established international ...

In early 2024, Spokane Valley native and retired diplomat Ryan Crocker knew the U.S.-funded, Arabic-language news organization he had championed for years needed help. Twenty years after the Middle ...

Trump’s cuts come after the U.S. last year helped free Alsu Kurmasheva — a dual U.S.-Russian citizen and journalist with ...

I never had formal English training. Everything I learned came from programs like Voice of America’s Special English and Talk ...

The Trump administration is weighing a proposal to slash the State Department’s budget by $27 billion — nearly half — and ...

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%.

The proposal, which was presented to the State Department last week and is still in a highly preliminary phase, is not ...