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  • 1 week ago | lucianne.com | Nahal Toosi

    Original ArticlePosted By: Dreadnought, 5/27/2025 5:48:24 PMThe Trump administration is weighing requiring all foreign students applying to study in the United States to undergo social media vetting - a significant expansion of previous such efforts, according to a cable obtained by POLITICO.

  • 1 week ago | politico.com | Nahal Toosi

    The directive came in a Tuesday cable obtained by POLITICO. FILE - Students sit on the front steps of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus in New York City, Feb. 10, 2023. | AP/Ted Shaffrey The Trump administration is weighing requiring all foreign students applying to study in the United States to undergo social media vetting — a significant expansion of previous such efforts, according to a cable obtained by POLITICO.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Nahal Toosi

    The Trump administration is weighing requiring all foreign students applying to study in the United States to undergo social media vetting — a significant expansion of previous such efforts, according to a cable obtained by POLITICO. In preparation for such required vetting, the administration is ordering U.S. Embassies and consular sections to pause scheduling new interviews for such student visa applicants, according to the cable, dated Tuesday and signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

  • 1 week ago | yahoo.com | Nahal Toosi

    If you want to know who’s running the State Department these days, it helps to peruse the website of a relatively new, conservative-leaning organization called the Ben Franklin Fellowship. The group’s roster includes Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau, top officials in bureaus such as consular affairs, and even an acting undersecretary or two. The fellows include current and former members of the foreign service, as well as other international affairs specialists.

  • 2 weeks ago | politico.com | Robbie Gramer |Nahal Toosi

    Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies during a Senate budget hearing May 20 in Washington. | Jason Andrew for POLITICO With help from Felicia Schwartz, Phelim Kine and Daniel LippmanSubscribe here | | It was a Senate hearing full of zingers, clapbacks and, surprisingly, some substantive foreign policy debate. Secretary of State MARCO RUBIO headed to Capitol Hill today for a marathon hearing before his former colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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