Tag: State Department

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing in Khimki, just outside Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 27, 2022. Griner is to appear in court Monday for a preliminary hearing ahead of her trial.

Brittney Griner placed ‘the most disturbing phone call’ to her wife

Mike Brest · October 6, 2022 4:40 pm

US announces $625 million aid package to Ukraine

Mike Brest · October 4, 2022 5:48 pm

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

American sentenced to over four years in Russian prison for alleged police fight

Mike Brest · October 4, 2022 4:22 pm

‘There will be costs’: US sanctions Russian central bank chief and military suppliers

Katherine Doyle · September 30, 2022 3:31 pm

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

Tree-hugging: Wife of top White House adviser given plum role at State Department

Jack Birle · September 29, 2022 10:54 pm

Americans wrongfully detained abroad on the rise, study says

Mike Brest · September 29, 2022 12:00 am

Donald Blinken and Anthony Blinken.

Father of Antony Blinken dies

Victor I. Nava · September 23, 2022 8:30 am

Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, who was arrested in Moscow at the end of last year, attends a hearing in a court in Moscow.

Whelan family member has ‘complete faith’ in Biden administration after presidential meeting

Mike Brest · September 17, 2022 3:01 pm

Blinken announces $600 million drawdown of US military equipment for Ukraine

Victor I. Nava · September 16, 2022 5:15 am

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

Biden selects career diplomat as new Russian ambassador: Reports

Katherine Doyle · September 14, 2022 5:13 pm

Biden’s gender colonialism puts US interests, credibility at risk

Washington Examiner · September 11, 2022 12:00 am

Supporters wave Taiwan flags as they welcome activists aboard the fishing boat "Kai Fung No. 2" in Hong Kong Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012. A group Hong Kong activists deported from Japan after landing on disputed islands in the East China Sea returned home to a hero's welcome. The seven activists who returned Wednesday were part of a 14-person group that evaded the Japanese Coast Guard to reach the islands a week ago.

Biden administration approves $1.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan

Misty Severi · September 3, 2022 12:21 am