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 Secretary of State Marco Rubio talks to Michael Benz, a Jewish former Trump official with a Hitler-praising online alter ego, in a video posted by the US State Department, April 16, 2025.

Marco Rubio sits with Michael Benz, Jewish former Trump official with antisemitic online persona

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Robert Levinson

US sanctions three Iranian spies over role in FBI agent's 2007 disappearance

 Iran's and US' flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022.

State Dept. says all waivers providing Iran economic relief are under review

By REUTERS
 U.S. President Joe Biden attends a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he visits Israel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023.

State officials under Biden were 'hostile' towards Israel during war - former envoy

 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, February 16, 2025.

Rubio signs declaration to expedite delivery of $4 billion in military aid to Israel

By REUTERS
 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) react during a campaign event at Dorton Arena, in Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. November 4, 2024.

Trump orders revamp of US diplomatic corps to ensure they follow his agenda

By REUTERS
 Darren Beattie, a former White House speechwriter who attended a conference with white supremacists, speaks at a "Symposium at the Wall," a 2019 gathering on border security, immigration asylum and other issues in Sunland Park, New Mexico.

Speechwriter fired over white nationalist ties appointed to high-level State Department role

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally the day before he is scheduled to be inaugurated for a second term, in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2025.

Trump vows to reveal classified Kennedy, MLK assassination files

 Hazem Alghabra and JCFA President Dan Diker.

Israeli regional power should be embraced, says ex-US State Department adviser

 PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA Nicolás Maduro speaks to the press in Caracas.

Venezuela's Maduro says two US citizens arrested among group of 'mercenaries'

By REUTERS
 US President Joe Biden (Illustrative)

US proposes $8b. arms deal with Israel, including fighter jet munitions

By REUTERS
 An elderly woman reacts in Tadamon district, littered with bones after what residents and rights groups described as years of killings there under the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, following al-Assad's ousting by fighters of the ruling Syrian body, in Damascus, Syria, December 12, 2024.

'Every shot fired went into a man': Syrians recall horrors at Tadamon

By REUTERS
 Travis Pete Timmerman, a US citizen who went missing in Syria, speaks to press after being found following the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Syria on December 12, 2024.

US flies freed American Travis Timmerman out of Syria, official says

By REUTERS
A child walks around a fake tank parked outside the US embassy during a protest held by Amnesty International in Mexico City.

Amnesty International genocide allegations 'unfounded,' US State Dept. says

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky seen on a screen, while Russia's Vladimir Putin watches on (illustrative)

Putin-controlled aircraft deported Ukrainian children, US-backed research alleges

By REUTERS
 US State Department spokesman Ned Price holds a press briefing on Afghanistan at the State Department in Washington, U.S., August 16, 2021.

State Department maintains Israel's taken efforts to improve Gaza humanitarian situation

 US and Iranian flags are seen in this illustration taken, September 8, 2022.

US believes Iranian-American journalist is detained in Iran, AP reports

By REUTERS
 People walk near the Roman ruins of Baalbek, Lebanon January 5, 2024.

US supports Israel's right to go after legitimate Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, State Dept says