Tag: State Department

Biden State Department ‘stands by’ disinformation grant to conservative blacklister

Gabe Kaminsky · May 30, 2023 8:54 pm

File - The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington.

State Department security failure: Former Trump official’s car stolen and used in DC homicide

Tom Rogan · May 26, 2023 3:23 pm

Austin, Texas - June 6, 2016: The Main Building (known colloquially as The Tower) is a structure at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus.

‘Disinformation’ blacklist story by Washington Examiner set off panic at state-funded lab

Gabe Kaminsky · May 25, 2023 5:51 pm

GOP demands Blinken contempt of Congress vote after Afghan cable deal falls short

Jerry Dunleavy, Ryan King · May 23, 2023 5:46 pm

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

Russian court extends detention of American journalist

Mike Brest · May 23, 2023 5:03 pm

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who was arrested on charges of spying in Moscow at the end of 2018.

Paul Whelan does phone interview from Russian prison camp to demand release

Emily Jacobs · May 22, 2023 2:04 am

Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Bolivian ‘boondoggle’: Biden administration funds foreign anti-‘disinformation’ campaign

Gabe Kaminsky · May 20, 2023 10:00 am

Microsoft stonewalls on ‘review’ into State Department-backed ‘disinformation’ group

Gabe Kaminsky · May 19, 2023 12:55 pm

Motives unknown for deadly attack on US convoy in Nigeria, Blinken says

Mike Brest · May 17, 2023 7:30 pm

File - The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington.

US convoy attacked in Nigeria with some casualties, but no Americans hurt

Mike Brest · May 16, 2023 9:40 pm

FILE - In this Monday, March 11, 2013 file photo, police officers stand near a cage in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russian courts violate the rights of suspects by putting them in metal cages during trial. The court, in a ruling Thursday, July 17, 2014, found that confinement in a metal cage "amounted to degrading treatment" and is "incompatible with the standards of civilized behavior that were the hallmark of a democratic society." (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russian media say authorities arrested former US Embassy official

Mike Brest · May 15, 2023 9:11 pm

FILE - A security guard stands near a sculpture of the Chinese Communist Party flag at the Museum of the Communist Party of China on May 26, 2022, in Beijing. China said it was conducting military exercises Saturday, July 30, off its coast opposite Taiwan after warning Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the U.S. House of Representatives to scrap possible plans to visit the island democracy, which Beijing claims as part of its territory.

Chinese court sentences elderly US citizen to life in prison on spying charges

Mike Brest · May 15, 2023 5:07 pm