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The first was a speech from Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth at the 50-nation meeting of the Ukraine-defense-support group.

For most of American history, the secretary of state has been the dominant shaper of American foreign policy. Those days are over. We are in the age of the incredible shrinking secretary of state.

The directive follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday pausing new obligations and disbursements of foreign ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Panama where he put the Latin American nation’s president on notice about the current status of the Panama Canal amid growing […] ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... The order also appears to immediately impact current existing aid programs, stating, "For existing foreign assistance awards, contracting officers and grant ...

introduced the new secretary. Mr. Rubio thanked the many diplomats working overseas, then laid out Mr. Trump’s foreign policy goal: “That mission is to ensure that our foreign policy is ...

There are moments as foreign secretary where it is your duty to confront the darkest corners of humanity. This week, I bore witness to what will go down in history as one of the biggest ...