List of U.S. State Department articles
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Dec. 15. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Tillerson Backtracks on Overture to North Korea, Slams China and Russia
"North Korea must earn its way back to the table," Tillerson told U.N.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the State Department on April 19, in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Rex Tillerson Is About to Make a Terrible Mistake
The knives are out for "F" at the State Department. The secretary should be strengthening rather than dismantling it.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks on during the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) North Korea Had Spurned Talks With U.S. Due to Trump’s Latest Sanctions
Despite months of secret contacts, North Korea has been playing hard to get back to the negotiating table – even as Rex Tillerson reaches out again.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a forum on U.S.-South Korea relations at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 12. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Tillerson Open to Talks With North Korea
U.S. Secretary of State says he'll talk "until the first bomb drops," redoubling a diplomatic effort to defuse the threat of a nuclear showdown.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Donald Trump wait for a luncheon with African leaders on Sept. 20, 2017 in New York. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) U.S. Diplomat’s Resignation Signals Wider Exodus From State Department
One diplomat’s stinging resignation letter offers a glimpse into declining morale at the State Department under Trump.
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The State Department seal on the podium before a photo opportunity from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, June 9 in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) White House Names Trump Loyalist to Iran Policy Job at State Department
The Trump administration’s pick for the Iran post will likely back a more aggressive stance.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends a press conference at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna on Dec. 7. (AFP/APA/Hans Punz/Austria OUT) Tillerson: Biggest Snag in U.S.-Russia Relations is Ukraine, Not Election Meddling
U.S. ‘badly’ wants to mend fences with Moscow, Secretary of State Tillerson says.
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Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Oct. 28, 2015. (Allison Shelley/Getty Images) Lawmakers Take Aim At Tillerson’s Botched State Department Redesign
Two top lawmakers take aim at Tillerson's handling of State Department reform, again.
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee member Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) listens to testimony during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill November 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams testified before the committee about community-level health promotion programs and businesses that offer incentives to employees that practice healthy lifestyles. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) GOP Senator Presses Trump Administration Over Deadly Saudi Blockade in Yemen
Sen. Todd Young is holding up a key State Department confirmation until the White House helps ease the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen.
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The Kenwa Center for HIV positive women in Nairobi, Kenya in December, 2006. (Brent Stirton/Getty Images) Proposed U.S. Cuts to AIDS Funding Could Cause Millions of Deaths: Report
While the Trump administration praises its progress on the AIDS fight, health campaigners warn they are making the fight that much harder.
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US Marine Corps vehicles near Raqqa in northern Syria on March 27. (Delil Souleima/AFP/Getty Images) SitRep: Tillerson Still in; The Pentagon’s Magic Numbers in Syria
U.S. looks to fly armed drones in Niger; privatizing covert ops; and lots more
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson leaves for meetings after posing for photos for the press at the State Department on Nov. 29 in Washington. (Saul Loeb/AFPGetty Images) Rexit: Secretary of State Tillerson Could Soon Get the Boot
Reports suggest Trump is mulling replacing the embattled secretary of state with CIA head Pompeo, and putting Sen. Tom Cotton at CIA.
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Soldiers, officers, and civilian employees attend the commencement ceremony for the U.S. Army's annual observance of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month in the Pentagon Center Courtyard on March 31, 2015 in Arlington, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) #MeToo Is All Too Common in National Security
I signed the letter, but didn’t think I deserved to be called a “survivor.” Until I started remembering the trail of abuse.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at a Woodrow Wilson Center event in the Reagan Building Nov. 28, in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Two Cheers for Rex
The secretary of state has been going through a rough patch, but not all of his endeavors deserve to be pilloried.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars on Nov. 28, 2017 in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Tillerson Takes on Critics: No ‘Hollowing Out’ at the State Department
Reports of the State Department's demise have been greatly exaggerated, Tillerson says.
