The Trump administration has argued that the State Department is bloated and layoffs are necessary. The court found that’s for Congress to decide.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by the newspaper.

The deputy secretary of state posted and then quickly deleted a social media attack against President Donald Trump’s ambassador to NATO. Ambassador Matt Whitaker, who is a MAGA hardliner, had posted a routine diplomatic post on the social media platform X,

"This vindicates what Mahmoud has maintained since day one — that the government cannot detain or deport him based on Rubio’s say-so," Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer for Khalil and a law professor at the City University of New York, said in a statement.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio congratulated Russians on the so-called Russia Day "on behalf of the American people", according to the US Department of State. In his greeting, Rubio stated that the United States "remains committed to supporting the Russian people,

It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a realm of national politics in which Secretary of State Marco Rubio is not involved.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is seeking a federal sanctions investigation into Harvard University over alleged violations involving a blacklisted Chinese entity, escalating the Trump administration’s broader campaign against the nation’s oldest university.

Syrian national Mahmoud Khalil can't be detained and deported due to foreign policy concerns by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a federal district court judge ruled on Wednesday.

The U.S. State Department has published a Russia Day greeting from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, written “on behalf of the American people.”

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner came down shortly after take off on Thursday afternoon local time, bound for London Gatwick. There were 242 people on board - mainly Indian nationals, but many British, and some Portuguese and a Canadian as well.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by the newspaper.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered U.S. embassies around the world to move ahead with a directive to fire all remaining staffers with the U.S.