NPR's Scott Simon asks veteran career diplomat Nicholas Burns about the Trump administration's plans to downsize the State Department.

MANY readers will scoff at that headline with one of three thoughts: Asia cannot escape atomic Armageddon. Almighty God won’t ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Abdul Feraji, investigative journalist from Afghanistan about the termination of Temporary ...

The U.S. State Department fired more than 1,300 employees on Friday in line with a dramatic reorganization plan from the ...

If we’re fortunate, that will yield academic treatises with titles like “The Empire Tested: America and the World, 2021-2030.

The three envoys had come with an offer from Washington: release three American prisoners on death row and, in return, President Donald Trump will accept your minerals-for-security proposal ...

A senior State Department official said Friday the department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 ...

The employees affected will be placed immediately on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose ...

The increasingly opaque path for protection adopted by Trump leaves those who fled their homeland with little hope.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to immediately halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in seven California counties, including Los Angeles.