Ellen McCarthy is a former assistant secretary of state and led the Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 2019 to 2021.

On July 11, the State Department began issuing termination notices to employees included in a planned 15 percent reduction in force (RIF) after the Supreme Court overruled an injunction against the ...

Almost every day the county receives a complaint about a yard or property supposedly in disarray. Sometimes these lead to an overgrown lawn, a couple inoperable cars parked overtly, or nothing at all.

Interviews with more than 60 people detail a frenetic, arbitrary process underpinning the Trump administration’s far-reaching ...

The state education department will take over the finances of a rural Pee Dee school district, pausing a plan to consolidate ...

The roles of some of the State Department employees fired last week overlap with priorities that President Donald Trump has ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks John Dinkelman, new president of the American Foreign Service Association, about how layoffs will affect the State Department and American diplomacy.

Last week's sweeping State Department layoffs gutted some offices unexpectedly and forced staff to scramble, sources told CBS ...

The State Department is firing more than 1,300 people on Friday as part of a dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to an ...

A rally is expected, with supporters “clapping out” departing State Department employees and protesting the layoffs at 4 p.m. Friday.

The State Department began firing more than 1,350 U.S-based employees on Friday as the administration of President Donald ...

Layoff notices are going out to more than 1,300 employees of the U.S. State Department Friday. The firings are part of a dramatic reorganization and a push by the Trump administration to drastically ...