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Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Panama

Secretary of State Marco Rubio bans passports with ‘X’ gender markers after Trump order: report

State Department staff were instructed to “suspend any application requesting an X sex marker” and to “suspend any application where the applicant is seeking to change their sex marker.”

FOX News on MSN · 2d

New Secretary of State Marco Rubio pauses refugee operations, ramps up visa vetting

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is advising his department to cease refugee resettlement operations and begin ramping up vetting of visas from certain regions.

USA TODAY on MSN · 1d

Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Panama after Donald Trump lashes out at country

Marco Rubio will travel to Panama on his first trip abroad as secretary of State. The visit comes as Donald Trump looks to reclaim Panama's canal.

State Department, foreign aid

The Washington Post · 16h

State Department freezes new funding for nearly all US aid programs worldwide

The State Department has frozen new funding for almost all U.S. aid programs worldwide, making exceptions to allow humanitarian food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt to continue

Hosted on MSN · 6h

State Department issues immediate pause for nearly all U.S. foreign aid

The Trump administration has suspended all existing foreign aid for 90 days pending review with exceptions for Israel and Egypt, according to a State Department cable leaked on Friday.

PBS · 7h

State Department suspends nearly all U.S. foreign aid for 3 months

The State Department suspended all foreign assistance around the world for at least three months. That affects tens of billions of dollars on programs that run from military assistance to Ukraine to supporting police in Mexico who interdict fentanyl coming into the U.

State Department, passport

CNN on MSN · 2h

U.S. State Department suspends processing passport applications with ‘X’ gender marker

The U.S. State Department is only processing and issuing passports for people identifying as male or female, according to a department spokesperson.

NBC News on MSN · 6h

State Department to suspend passport applications seeking sex-marker changes

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a memo reviewed by NBC News, said additional guidance would be issued on existing passports containing an “X” sex marker.

ABC News on MSN · 12h

State Department halts 'X' passport gender marker applications

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to freeze applications in the passport pipeline with “X” selected as the gender identifier.

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Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship would overturn more than a century of precedent

US President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a ...

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Interior Department says Gulf of Mexico now renamed to Gulf of America, Denali to Mount McKinley

While the Gulf of America will be applied to federal references, other nations will not be required to recognize the name.

Wang tells Rubio leaders have set tone and direction of US-China ties

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday and Beijing said he told the ...

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In U.S. illegally, two accused of trying to obtain Arkansas state IDs in custody

State investigators say two people in the United States illegally who tried to obtain state ID cards are now legally behind ...

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Trump presses pause on parts of the federal goverment

Heads of federal agencies turned Trump’s executive orders into mandates to cut communication with outside parties, halt most ...

Appeals Court Upholds Injunction on Iowa’s State-Level Immigration Enforcement Law

A lower court had blocked the Republican-backed law that made it a state crime to enter Iowa after being deported or denied ...

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State Department Warns Staff Against Imposing Stealth DEI After Trump Executive Order

Trump’s anti-DEI directive sent shockwaves through Washington. The executive order, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government ...

Trump’s suspension of refugee program puts Afghans and others in potential danger, advocates say

The move leaves tens of thousands of Afghan refugees at risk days before implementation of the executive order was expected.

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