#ambassador-nominee-controversy

#ambassador-nominee-controversy

Diminished. Sadly. I mean, you know, when I was a student, it was just understood that the U.S. was the leading nation in the world, not just the biggest, not the richest, not most powerful, but the country that people looked to because of our values as well as because of our strength.

Residents in Lebanon are closely monitoring the U.S.-Iran situation, fearing that if talks collapse, the temporary ceasefire with Hezbollah will also end, prolonging their suffering.

Casey Means was selected to be the nation's top doctor, but her nomination has stalled as some Republicans question her stance on vaccines and her medical credentials.

The ministry announced Mona Juul's resignation on Sunday evening, days after she was suspended as Norway's ambassador to Jordan. That followed reports that Epstein left the children of Juul and her husband, Terje Rd-Larsen, $10 million in a will drawn up shortly before his death by suicide in a New York prison in 2019. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said Juul's decision was correct and necessary.

Shortly after his second inauguration, Trump appointed himself to the board for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and added several of his allies to the board as well, who then named him chair. It was a divisive move, with the president's MAGA supporters cheering his takeover, his critics left disgusted, performers cancelling in protest, and ticket sales in a free fall.

I think it will take them years to restart their nuclear program. I think that they can't control their airspace; they don't have the will to do it. From what I've seen, I'm in shock and awe. You know, it's just, it's shocking how much damage we did to their facilities.

American diplomats are supposed to represent the nation, advocate for the interests and policies of the U.S. government, and stay on generally good terms with the country to which they're assigned. Even when they are sent to places that have an adversarial relationship with the United States, they are expected to maintain decorum while conveying messages these regimes may not want to hear.

White genocide' Carl is a right-wing firebrand who played a minor role in the first Trump administration and has more recently gained, depending on your vantage, kudos or notoriety for his theory that Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart, as his book's subtitle puts it. He believes, for example, that a White genocide is underway and endorses the Great Replacement Theory (according to which elites in America and Europe are intentionally encouraging immigration to replace indigenous whites).

At the same time, however, the United States is hemorrhaging billions in tourism revenue by the year, a downward trend many experts credit to President Donald Trump's nationalistic approach to immigration. In December, the administration expanded its travel ban to 39 countries-most of them in Africa-that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem claimed had "been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies" on X.

Giving rising tensions in the region, Chiefs of Mission and embassies at addressee posts must refrain from public statements, interviews, or social media activity that could in any way inflame regional audiences, prejudice sensitive political issues, or complicate US relationships, the cable said. Chiefs of Mission are expected to avoid all commentary on issues that could heighten tensions or create confusion about US policy.