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Longtime State Department spokesman, diplomat Richard Boucher, dies at 73

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Richard Boucher, who served for more than a decade as spokesman for the State Department and assistant secretary of state for public affairs, has died at age 73.

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Melania Trump says courage is 'based in love' as she honors women from around the world for bravery

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Melania Trump has recognized eight women with the 2025 International Women of Courage Award.

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Biden's departing UN envoy says US rivals will fill the vacuum if Trump abandons global leadership

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The outgoing U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says she watched America’s leadership diminish in the world during Donald Trump’s first presidency and saw China fill the vacuum.

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Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died.

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Ex-Kosovo president tells international judges he's innocent

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Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci has insisted he is an innocent man as he addressed a panel of international judges hearing his trial on 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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Jill Biden calls on men to support women fighting for rights

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First lady Jill Biden has praised a group of women from 12 countries for fighting for their rights.

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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022

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One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

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Harris calls water security a foreign policy priority

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Vice President Kamala Harris says the U.S. is safer if people in other countries have sufficient water to drink, grow food and safely dispose of sewage.

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Biden lunches with Clinton as midterms loom

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President Joe Biden had lunch Monday with former President Bill Clinton, as Democrats are facing long odds to retain their congressional majorities in November’s midterm elections.

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Madeleine Albright honored by Biden, other world leaders

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World leaders and the U.S. political and foreign policy elite joyously remembered America's first female secretary of state as mourners paid their respects to the late Madeleine Albright.

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Albright acted as model, mentor for generations of women

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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s death from cancer this week sparked American women to reflect on the 84-year-old diplomat’s sweeping influence on their lives, 25 years after Bill Clinton made her the United States’ representative to the world.

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Memories of Albright: A legacy of bluntness and conviction

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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is being remembered as a woman of conviction and determination who liked to say she told things like they were and not the way she might like them to be.

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Balkans split over Madeleine Albright's wartime legacy

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A monument in Kosovo, a snake named after her in Serbia.

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Gov. Youngkin issues flag order to honor Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state

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The U.S. and Virginia flags will be flown at half-staff over the state Capitol and all local, state and federal buildings this weekend to honor the life of Madeleine Albright.

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'She became our voice': Albright hailed by world leaders

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As she pressed the Clinton administration into action against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic over war crimes in the Balkans, Madeleine Albright would harken back to her own childhood as a refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled the Nazis in war-torn Europe.

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Albright fled the Nazis, climbed to the summit of diplomacy

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Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States.

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Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, has died of cancer, her family says

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Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as US secretary of state, has died of cancer, according to her family. She was 84.

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Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies

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Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state, has died at age 84.

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Colin Powell remembered as a model for future generations

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Colin Powell: A trailblazing legacy, blotted by Iraq war

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A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government.

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Biden fills out State Department team with Obama veterans

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Biden will nominate Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state and Victoria Nuland as undersecretary of state for political affairs — the second- and third-highest ranking posts, respectively. They were among the 11 officials announced to serve under the incoming secretary of state, Antony Blinken. America is back.”Among the others are:—longtime Biden Senate aide Brian McKeon, to be deputy secretary of state for management. —Derek Chollet, a familiar Democratic foreign policy hand, to be State Department counselor. Price and Porter intend to return to the practice of holding daily State Department press briefings, officials said.

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Watchdog clears Pompeo's wife of travel ethics charges

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Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani, left, gives flowers to Susan Pompeo as she and her husband, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, arrive at Tbilisi International Airport in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)WASHINGTON – An independent probe into the travel of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s wife has concluded that the trips with her husband on official business did not violate federal ethics rules. The IG report was released just hours after the State Department took aim at the watchdog, Democratic members of Congress and media outlets for raising questions about Susan Pompeo’s travel and suggesting it may have been inappropriate. Susan Pompeo had attracted criticism for using government resources while accompanying her husband on diplomatic trips. The inspector general reacted icily to Brechbuhl's comment, saying it did not accurately reflect the role and work of an independent watchdog.

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Biden's choice for UN envoy signals return to US engagement

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Thomas-Greenfield joined the State Department more than three decades ago, when Black women were even more of a rarity in the U.S. diplomatic corps than they are today. That makes her the most experienced diplomat of the six people named by Biden for top national security positions on Monday. Her tenure at the State Department rivals that of previous U.N. ambassadors like Richard Holbrooke, John Negroponte and Thomas Pickering, all of them white men. Other than secretary of state, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is often the most high-profile foreign policy portfolio in a presidential administration. Thomas-Greenfield's immediate predecessors — all women — highlight that dichotomy: Rice, Samantha Power, Nikki Haley and Kelly Craft.

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Sotheby’s offers benefit auction with Sting, Hillary Clinton

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The chance to record a song with Sting is one of the offerings in an online auction presented by famed auction house Sothebys using Google Meet video calls. The event will be held May 1-8 and will benefit the International Rescue Committee's efforts to combat COVID-19. Those are just some of the offerings in an online auction presented by famed auction house Sotheby’s using Google Meet video calls. The auctions will be held May 1-8 and will benefit the International Rescue Committee's efforts to combat COVID-19. “We are proud to contribute to pandemic relief at this extraordinary time," said Charles F. Stewart, CEO of Sotheby’s.

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