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Byline: SHERI WALSH Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The Biden administration announced an additional $250 million in military aid for Ukraine on Wednesday, as U.S. funding for the country's nearly two-year [...]

Byline: DARRYL COOTE July 18 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling on the U.S. Senate to confirm dozens of State Department nominees whose appointments have been blocked [...]

Byline: CLYDE HUGHES Rep. http://www.upi.com/topic/Michael_McCaul/, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, threatened Secretary of State http://www.upi.com/topic/Antony-Blinken/ with contempt of Congress in an effort to get specific information about the [...]

Byline: DOUG CUNNINGHAM & ADAM SCHRADER Congressional lawmakers blasted both China and the Biden administration over China's surveillance balloon on Thursday. Also on Thursday, the State Department revealed that the [...]

Byline: DOUG CUNNINGHAM Haitian Senate President Joseph Lambert was sanctioned by both the U.S. State Department and the Treasury Department for alleged narcotics trafficking and 'gross violation of human rights.' [...]

Byline: MATT BERNARDINI A newly declassified U.S. intelligence review alleges that Russia has spent more than $300 million globally to influence foreign political events. Since 2014, the Kremlin has given [...]

Byline: DARRYL COOTE The U.S. State Department said the Kremlin is preparing to hold 'sham' referenda to annex Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine, warning that Moscow will employ propaganda and disinformation [...]

Byline: DANIEL URIA The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Joe Biden's choices to serve as CIA director and deputy secretary of state. William Burns was confirmed to lead the CIA [...]

Byline: UPI STAFF On this date in history: In 1825, after no presidential candidate won the necessary majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams the sixth president of [...]

Byline: CLYDE HUGHES President Joe Biden's nominee to be the United States' top ambassador to the United Nations will appear in Congress on Wednesday to begin her confirmation hearing. Linda [...]

Byline: CHRISTEN MCCURDY A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation to block the Trump administration's effort to expedite the sale of $23.7 billion worth of military equipment to the [...]

Byline: DON JACOBSON House Democrats on Monday issued subpoenas to four 'key witnesses' for an investigation into President Donald Trump's firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick two months [...]

Byline: SOMMER BROKAW Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended his inspector general ouster and the Trump administration's approach to Russia during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Thursday. A hearing [...]

Byline: DARRYL COOTE House Democrats Eliot Engel and Carolyn Maloney announced they have scheduled a slew of interviews with top members of the State Department as they investigate President Donald [...]

Byline: DARRYL COOTE Religious freedom in India sharply declined last year under the strengthened leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a U.S. religious freedom watchdog said, recommending the United States [...]

Byline: DARRYL COOTE The House Intelligence Committee announced a series of public impeachment inquiry hearings to be held next week including senior State Department, Nation Security and Pentagon officials. Eight [...]

Byline: NICHOLAS SAKELARIS After being blocked by the Trump administration this week, U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland will testify before the House next week on a congressional [...]

Byline: ALLEN CONEThe U.S. State Department has approved Japan's $2.15 billion purchase of two land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense systems.On Tuesday, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification [...]

Byline: SOMMER BROKAW The State Department ordered U.S. government employees' relatives to leave Nicaragua Monday after days of deadly protests over proposed social security changes. The order, which also authorized [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH SHIM Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department reaffirmed the bilateral alliance with Seoul in the wake of a South Korea court decision to remove President Park [...]

Byline: DANIEL J. GRAEBER WASHINGTON, July 9 (UPI) -- A committee from the Republican-led House of Representatives said it issued a subpoena to the State Department on the permit process [...]

Byline: DANIEL J. GRAEBER WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The American Petroleum Institute called on President Obama to reconsider his threat to veto the Keystone XL oil pipeline amid congressional [...]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- President Obama has the right to order a strike on Syria, officials insisted, as allies pulled back and U.S. lawmakers sought a congressional vote on [...]

WASHINGTON, May 8 (UPI) -- A Republican senator said he thinks 'the dam is about to break' ahead of a House panel hearing on the deadly attack on the U.S. [...]

WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- Getting past the U.S. State Department would remove a key hurdle in getting the Keystone XL pipeline built, a House energy subcommittee said. By a [...]

Byline: PAT NASON The attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed, set off a debate [...]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Congress' highest-ranking black lawmaker says he suspects Republicans are pillorying U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice because she is black. Rep. James Clyburn, [...]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department said a bill forcing approval of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada prevents the government from making an informed decision. Kerri-Ann [...]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Veteran diplomat Dennis B. Ross, special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia, will leave the White House in December, The New York Times [...]

Budget chief sure default will be averted WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- 'Responsible' leaders of Congress won't let the United States slip into default, White House Budget Director Jacob Lew [...]

WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- Political developments in Egypt have to stay on track though Washington recognizes that transitions are difficult, a U.S. State Department spokesman said. The ruling Supreme [...]

WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) -- A weekend constitutional referendum in Egypt helped set the stage for real democratic progress, a U.S. State Department official said. Roughly 40 percent of the [...]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Washington may find it difficult dealing with an Iraqi government that contains ministers advocating violence in the country, the U.S. State Department said. Sadrists, lawmakers [...]

Byline: BEN LANDO WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- U.S. congressional leaders are pressing the Bush administration to block deals to be signed between the Iraqi federal government and the world's [...]

WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- Republicans in Congress are angry at the Bush administration's choice of a State Department official to fill a new post to oversee U.S. efforts against [...]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- The United States will support the Iraqi government as it develops strategies for a united country, a State Department official told a Senate committee. "We […]

Byline: MEREDITH MACKENZIE WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A new law restricting the activities of both domestic and international non-governmental organizations in Russia is being touted as the latest sign […]

Byline: PAMELA HESS WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Three days after an inspector general's report blasted the State Department and other agencies for failing to provide adequate numbers of skilled [...]

Byline: RICHARD SALE, Terrorism Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 2 The State Department has sent top officers to Congress to calm 'accelerating (congressional) concerns' over Egyptian efforts to either buy or [...]

BOSTON, July 25 The State Department reportedly is trying to set up a meeting between Massachusetts Gov. William Weld and North Carolina Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, the chief opponent to [...]

WASHINGTON Arnold Raphel, 45, a career diplomat for the last 21 years noted for his expertise on South Asia, was known as a professional. His professionalism won him praise from [...]

Byline: ELMER W. LAMMI WASHINGTON Key Pentagon and State Department officials told Congress Wednesday that the United States is prepared to make armed 'counterterrorist' attacks on terrorists even if it [...]