Tag: State Department

The word "they" is displayed on a computer screen on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, in New York. The language mavens at Merriam-Webster have declared the personal pronoun their word of the year based on a 313 percent increase in look-ups on the company's search site, Merriam-Webster.com, this year when compared with 2018. Merriam-Webster recently added a new definition to its online dictionary to reflect use of âtheyâ as relating to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary.

Beltway Confidential

Celebrate ‘International Pronouns Day is Stupid’ Day

Christopher Tremoglie · October 21, 2021 3:32 pm

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gestures while speaking at the California Republican Party 2014 Spring Convention in Burlingame, Calif. (AP/Ben Margot)

Condoleezza Rice spars with The View host while discussing Capitol riot

Sydney Shea · October 20, 2021 8:00 pm

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

State Department recognizes ‘ze/zir/zirs’ in celebration of International Pronouns Day

Timothy Nerozzi · October 20, 2021 7:11 pm

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas updates reporters on the effort to resettle vulnerable Afghans in the United States, in Washington, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021.

Mayorkas tests positive for COVID-19 after weekend with Bidens

Kaelan Deese · October 19, 2021 7:07 pm

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

State Department watchdog launches investigation of botched Afghanistan pullout

Mike Brest · October 19, 2021 2:04 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2019, file photo, Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington. The longest direct talks ever held between the United States and the Taliban concluded this week with both sides citing progress toward ending the 17-year war, but many questions remain unanswered. Khalilzad said they reached two âdraft agreementsâ covering the withdrawal of U.S. troops and guarantees that Afghanistan would not revert to a haven for terrorists.

National Security

Top US envoy to Afghanistan steps down

Elizabeth Faddis · October 19, 2021 1:13 am

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell dead at 84 from COVID-19 complications

Virginia Aabram · October 18, 2021 12:12 pm

Beltway Confidential

The CIA should leave diplomacy to diplomats

Michael Rubin · October 17, 2021 11:00 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the media during a press conference in London after his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Friday, March 14, 2014. Kerry arrived in London Friday, for his last meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before the Crimea vote.

Marco Rubio accuses John Kerry of ‘profiting from slave labor’

Joel Gehrke · October 15, 2021 8:13 pm

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres makes remarks at a press conference.

Beltway Confidential

The United Nations ‘strongly appeals’ to the Taliban to stop being the Taliban

Zachary Faria · October 13, 2021 1:48 pm

The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington, in this March 9, 2009 file photo.

Biden selects former ambassador to oversee Afghan resettlement efforts

Mike Brest · October 12, 2021 6:45 pm

American and Taliban officials to talk on evacuees

Associated Press · October 9, 2021 12:46 am