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December 20, 2015

Brunei queen's jewelry tops Obama diplomatic gifts

From furniture and food to fine art, members of the Obama administration received thousands of dollars in gifts from foreign leaders, but first lady Michelle Obama appears to have received the most expensive gift last year.

December 20, 2015

Official: Ex-diplomat in counterintelligence case

A U.S. official says a federal investigation involving a former U.S. diplomat and expert on Pakistan is related to counterintelligence.

December 20, 2015

Iran negotiator tapped as acting deputy secretary of US State Department

The State Department has tapped one of its top policy officials to fill in as its acting deputy secretary.

December 20, 2015

Amid hacking attack, State Department info-security still in shambles

Weeks before the State Department’s Nov. 16 shutdown of its unclassified email system in the face of unprecedented hacking attacks, auditors took the department’s management to task for ignoring warnings about their lax security habits and chronic failure to enact protections against high-tech intruders.

December 20, 2015

Iran nuclear talks to be extended until July

A yearlong effort to seal a nuclear deal with Iran fizzled Monday, leaving the U.S. and its allies little choice but to declare a seven-month extension in hopes that a new deadline will be enough to achieve what a decade of negotiations have failed to do — limit Tehran's ability to make a nuclear weapon.

December 20, 2015

State Department shuts down email system after suspected hacker attack

A senior department official said Sunday that "activity of concern" was detected in the system around the same time as a previously reported incident that targeted the White House computer network. 

December 20, 2015

WH petition to free Marine Tahmooressi from Mexico prison reaches 100K online signatures

A petition on the White House website asking President Obama to demand the release of a Marine sergeant in a Mexico prison has garnered more than 100,000 online signatures -- a threshold that typically elicits an administration response.

December 20, 2015

Clinton leaks memoir chapter that unloads on critics of her Benghazi response

Hillary Clinton, in an intentionally leaked chapter of her highly anticipated memoir -- coinciding with a flurry of activity surrounding the book release and her potential 2016 candidacy -- unloads on critics of the administration's response to the Benghazi terror attack.

December 20, 2015

‘State Department got punked’: US takes heat for boosting lawyer fired by jailed Marine

A day after the U.S. Marine jailed in Mexico fired his attorney amid growing ethical concerns, the State Department is facing questions over why it had included the lawyer on an official list of legal contacts for Americans in a jam.

December 20, 2015

Navy ship with 1,000 Marines arrives off Libya to help Americans if unrest escalates

The USS Bataan, with about 1,000 Marines aboard, has sailed into the Mediterranean Sea to assist in evacuating Americans if deadly fighting in Libya worsens, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.