Every year, the State Department completes a thorough process involving multiple layers of review to determine who in the foreign service will get promoted. For some of the employees approved for ...

Fired US State Department workers push their belongings in a shopping cart as they leave the building in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2025. The US State Department began laying off more than 1,300 ...

The State Department is set to replace the existing Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) in favor of a more “merit-based” structure, the agency exclusively told the Daily Caller News Foundation on ...

The State Department will finalize its layoffs of 250 foreign service officers on Friday, according to a new notice sent to impacted staff, despite a congressionally mandated moratorium on the cuts ...

The Donald Trump administration is scrapping the State Department’s current Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) and introducing a new version that it says would be strictly “merit-based,” in contrast ...

Changes by the Trump administration have left US diplomats demoralized and less able to do their jobs, according to a scathing new report by the union representing foreign service officers. The report ...

Just before Christmas, President Donald Trump fired more than two dozen career ambassadors. The action was unprecedented, ...

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. People fired last week at ...

A pair of University of North Georgia (UNG) seniors took part in the Meridian-Cox Foreign Service Fellowship for Emerging Leaders this summer. Ryan Gentry and Claudia Marban were among the 20 students ...