It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, plans to shut down a direct communications channel between U.S. diplomats in Jerusalem working on Palestinian issues and agencies in Washington.
Republicans have raced to approve the president’s picks to serve as top diplomats around the globe, in some cases with solid backing from Democrats.
A departmental memo describes paring back the American diplomatic presence on every continent.
The move comes despite Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying the U.S. would still do some humanitarian work while shrinking foreign aid. Democratic lawmakers have denounced the cuts.
While Joe Biden was vice president, his son used the letterhead of a Ukrainian energy company when writing to a U.S. ambassador with ties to the family.
A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.
The Trump administration is negotiating the return of more Russian diplomats to the United States. Some are likely to be spies.
American officials, including in the C.I.A., are concerned about mass closures hampering national security work. And China has overtaken the United States in global diplomatic footprint.
Since 2008, embassies and other diplomatic posts had been publishing data about local air quality. In many countries, it was the only reliable source of such information.
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said negotiating teams would hold talks on Thursday in Istanbul.