
Abigail Williams
State Department Reporter and Producer at NBC News
State Department Reporter & Producer for NBC News. Links and retweets are not endorsements.
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1 week ago |
telemundo51.com | Abigail Williams |Suzanne Gamboa
La administración Trump está intensificando la verificación de antecedentes en redes sociales de los solicitantes de visa que desean viajar a la Universidad de Harvard, según un cable del Departamento de Estado enviado el viernes a las representaciones diplomáticas.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Abigail Williams |Suzanne Gamboa
May 30, 2025, 2:41 PM EDTThe Trump administration is escalating its social media vetting of visa applicants seeking to travel to Harvard University, a State Department cable sent to diplomatic posts Friday shows. The cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructs all U.S. missions and consulates abroad to immediately enhance the vetting of such visa applicants, with the intention of expanding the scrutiny process over time.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Astha Rajvanshi |Dan De Luce |Abigail Williams
May 29, 2025, 6:15 AM EDTPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday set a two-week deadline for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to make progress on ceasefire negotiations over Ukraine, adding thinly veiled threats about the consequences for Russia if he isn't satisfied.
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nbcnews.com | Henry Gomez |Abigail Williams
May 28, 2025, 6:44 PM EDTPresident Donald Trump’s administration has emerged as a staunch defender of Alternative for Germany, a political party with Nazi echoes that has risen in popularity — and that German intelligence officials recently classified as a “proven right-wing extremist organization.”The party is known by its German initialism, AfD, and it has included leaders who have embraced old Nazi slogans and minimized the atrocities of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.
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1 week ago |
nbcnewyork.com | Abigail Williams |Deon Hampton |Rob Gillies
The Trump administration on Tuesday stopped scheduling new interviews for international students seeking visas to study in the United States as the State Department prepares for expanded social media screening of applicants, according to an internal cable seen by NBC News. The directive was widely circulated to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts abroad and signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Politico first reported the cable.
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