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Visa issues take spotlight after Burundi teens exit event

The big controversy leading up to the FIRST Global international robotics competition in Washington was whether a team of ...

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US bans travel for Americans to NKorea after Warmbier death

American citizens will be barred by the U.S. from traveling to North Korea beginning next month following a prohibition on ...

The Latest: Americans to need special passport for NKorea

The Latest on the Trump administration's ban on Americans traveling to North Korea (all times local): 11:35 a.m. The State ...

US praises Sudan on counterterrorism despite blacklist

The Trump administration is praising Sudan for improving its counterterrorism record despite keeping it on a blacklist of ...

Mike Pence, Kris Kobach, Ken Blackwell, Connie Lawson

Trump says he wants voter fraud commission to have open mind

President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged members of his new voter fraud commission to approach their task with "a very open ...

Mike Pence, Kris Kobach

The Latest: Kobach questions Clinton's popular vote win

The Latest on the President Donald Trump's voter integrity commission (all times local): 4:30 p.m. The vice chair of ...

US: Iran still top state terror sponsor; global attacks down

Iran continues to be the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, the Trump administration said Wednesday in a new report ...

Donald Trump, H.R. McMaster,

Trump lets Iran deal live, but signals he may not for long

President Donald Trump was eager to declare Iran in breach of the nuclear deal but was talked out of it by national security ...

Xiyue Wang, Hua Qua

Wife of Princeton researcher held in Iran urges his release

The wife of a Princeton graduate student sentenced to 10 years behind bars in Iran called on authorities there to release him ...

AP Explains: Korean border village, site for rivals' talks

Straddling the world's most heavily fortified border, the Korean truce village of Panmunjom is a potential flashpoint where ...

American scholar jailed in Iran is innocent, professor says

A Chinese-American graduate student at Princeton sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for allegedly "infiltrating" the ...

State official seeks to allay concerns over agency overhaul

The State Department's second in command, John Sullivan, sought Monday to allay fears that a plan to reorganize the agency ...

State Dept expands 'close family' criteria for visas

The State Department on Monday expanded its definition of "close family" to include grandparents and other relatives that ...

Hossein Fereidoun

Iran detains president's brother, sentences Chinese-American

Iran has imprisoned a Chinese-American man for 10 years after accusing him of "infiltrating" the country and detained ...

6 Congo rangers safe; US journalist, 3 others still missing

Six Congolese rangers were found Saturday in a large forest reserve in Congo's northeast a day after a security station was ...

Officials: US expected to say Iran still abiding nuke deal

The Trump administration is expected to tell Congress early next week that Iran is still complying with the 2015 nuclear ...

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McGurk: 'We Have Some Ways to Go' in IS Fight

US Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS (IS), Brett McGurk, detailed the progress of the ...

Travel bans loom for nations that don't meet new US criteria

The clock has started to tick on a 50-day deadline for foreign governments to meet new U.S. standards for passports and ...

Afghan girls will be allowed into US for robotics contest

U.S. officials will allow a group of Afghan girls into the country to participate in an international robotics competition ...

China controls information about ailing Nobel Prize laureate

As China's government faces mounting international pressure to grant imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo his ...