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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Paris on Jan. 23 detailed how the U.S. and 28 other countries are launching a new plan to better identify and punish anyone who uses chemical weapons, amid new reports of a suspected chemical attack in Syria. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Foreign Policy

State Department urges international community to demand Syria cease using chemical weapons

Diana Stancy Correll -

February 6, 2018 2:18 am

Steven Goldstein, the undersecretary for public diplomacy at the State Department, said that Rex Tillerson had paid for the horseback ride out of his own pocket and wanted it to be a

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Reporters blocked from covering Rex Tillerson horseback ride in Argentina: Report

Mandy Mayfield -

February 5, 2018 6:23 pm

Former British spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier, wrote an additional memo on Donald Trump and Russia. (Washington Examiner illustration)

National Security

Dossier author Steele wrote another anti-Trump memo; was fed info by Clinton-connected contact, Obama State Department

Byron York -

February 5, 2018 3:39 pm

In this file photo provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on March 16, 2016, a Russian Su-25 ground attack jet takes off at Hemeimeem Air Base in Syria. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that an Su-25 jet was shot down in Syria by Jabhat al-Nusra, an affiliate of al Qaeda operating in the area. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Foreign Policy

Russian fighter jet shot down in Syria

Joel Gehrke -

February 3, 2018 8:01 pm

Russia has vowed to take steps that would counteract the new U.S. policy. Above, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, leads a meeting with high level Russian military officials and Defence Minister Sergei Shoig. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

Russia: US nuclear policy poses a threat

Joel Gehrke -

February 3, 2018 6:49 pm

Foreign Policy

Sen. Ben Cardin: ‘Trump misleading the American people’ about K.T. McFarland

Joel Gehrke -

February 3, 2018 5:24 pm

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., right, said in an interview: "We are in the middle of what I call 'phase two' of our investigation, which involved other departments. Specifically the State Department and some of the involvement they had in this."

Foreign Policy

More memos? Devin Nunes says House Intelligence is in ‘phase two’ of investigation

Diana Stancy Correll -

February 3, 2018 2:08 am

A Thursday court ruling marked, the last of the pending cases brought against the government

Beltway Confidential

Government reaches settlement against pro-Israel nonprofit targeted by the IRS

Margot Cleveland -

February 2, 2018 10:43 pm

National Security

K.T. McFarland withdraws nomination for Singapore ambassador

Joel Gehrke -

February 2, 2018 9:01 pm

"January 29 was the start date for this," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters. "It was not a deadline to impose new sanctions on Russia."

National Security