May 31, 2023 US, allies prep voluntary AI code of conduct, Blinken says Secretary of State Antony Blinken and European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager said the U.S. and the EU are working on a voluntary artificial intelligence conduct code.
May 28, 2023 North Korea infant jailed for life after parents found with Bible according to recent report A U.S. State Department report found that a infant and his entire family were sentenced to a North Korean prison camp for having a Bible.
May 26, 2023 'UFO' spotted lurking above U.S.' largest Marine base: 'We got aliens' Pictures and videos of a possible UFO flying over a Marine base in 2021 were obtained by investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell and shared with Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ Digital.
May 25, 2023 Army vet GOP rep blasts Biden administration for limiting access to Afghanistan dissent cable An Army vet GOP lawmaker is demanding transparency from the State Department, who has attempted to limit access to a dissent cable about the Afghanistan withdrawal.
May 23, 2023 Russian court orders Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich held 3 more months An investigator from Russia’s Federal Security Service asked a Moscow court to keep detained American journalist Evan Gershkovich behind bars until Aug. 30.
May 23, 2023 China's new ambassador to the US expected to arrive in Washington Tuesday on heels of G7 summit: report China’s new U.S. ambassador, Xie Feng, is reported to assume the role this week after President Biden said relations Beijing would "thaw very shortly."
May 21, 2023 Tourist kidnappings, rampant crime spark travel warnings in Caribbean, South America The State Department issued warnings for seven countries, five of which are in the Caribbean or South America, over concerns of elevated crime and safety for Americans abroad.
May 19, 2023 Iran defies US over executions, putting three democracy protesters to death The Islamic Republic of Iran continues targeting protesters who took to the streets after the regime murdered a young Iranian-Kurdish woman for failing to cover her hair.
May 18, 2023 AP reporter spars with State Department official over pronoun email confusion: 'It's wrong' The AP’s State Department reporter Matt Lee pressed State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel on a purported internal change that included gender pronouns in the 'from' field of department emails.
May 17, 2023 Blinken backs down, will let Congress see Afghan dissent cable that warned of swift Taliban takeover The State Department said Wednesday it would let lawmakers view the dissent channel cable related to the withdrawal of Afghanistan, in the face of a contempt vote against Blinken.