The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday voted narrowly in favor of Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump's pick to be U.N. envoy, clearing the way for a confirmation vote in the full 100-member Senate.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that the U.S. would pull out of a United Nations agency over its "globalist, ideological agenda" and anti-Israel bias.

The United States at the UN has reiterated US President Donald Trump's ultimatum to Russia to agree to peace in Ukraine within 50 days and noted that China continues to supply dual-use goods to the Russian Federation.

President Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the "woke" and "divisive" U.N. culture and education agency UNESCO, the White House said on Tuesday, repeating a move he took in his first term that was reversed by Joe Biden.

Former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz’s nomination to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) cleared a key procedural hurdle Thursday morning. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee favorably reported Waltz’s nomination out of committee largely along party lines during a vote of 12 to 10.

The administration of President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will end its involvement with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) over its decision to admit the State of Palestine as a member. The decision to leave the agency, announced on Tuesday, is to take effect in December 2026.

James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.

The US president is the only world leader with the power to force an end to Benjamin Netenyahu’s military campaign and aid blockade believed to have killed almost 60,000 Palestinians.

WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations needs reform and the United States must have a strong voice to counter China, Mike Waltz, U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to be his U.N. envoy, said on Tuesday, adding that he is "confident we can make the U.N. great again."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump appeared on Friday to abandon Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, both saying it had become clear that the Palestinian militants did not want a deal.