Foreign service officers face new hiring criteria as State Department removes DEI requirements and adds "fidelity" as a core ...

State Department employees already bracing for mass layoffs faced another blow Friday in the Supreme Court’s ruling that ...

The American Foreign Service Association urged the State Department on Wednesday to not go ahead with a planned overhaul that ...

The State Department is ending a program that for decades has given benefits and funds to low-performing diplomats rather ...

Democrats say they are worried about reports that about 700 career diplomats will be fired. The agency has said it plans to ...

The shift will affect about three dozen employees whose clearances have been suspended or revoked, according to an internal ...

The U.S. Department of State is preparing to cut its workforce by 2,000 employees as soon as Friday, three sources familiar ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called the agency “bloated,” yet as violence spiked in the Middle East, staff say they’ve ...

Working for six secretaries of state, he was known for explaining and defending U.S. foreign policy in a noncombative tone, ...

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced Tuesday she introduced a ...

The State Department could begin laying off hundreds of Washington, D.C.-based staff, according to internal correspondence.

A State Department spokesman declined to answer questions about the timing of RIF notices but told reporters, “we have no plans to violate a court order.” ...