State Department

noun

: the part of the U.S. government that is responsible for how the U.S. deals with other countries

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Official State Department documents about the Guatemala coup barely mention Pawley, who was instrumental in advocating for military action and in supplying coup forces with airplanes. —

Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 29 Dec. 2024 Nobody could explain why; the State Department usually keeps families together. —

John Ketchum, NPR, 29 Dec. 2024 For more info: Washington State Department of Agriculture Magdalena Cerdá, professor of epidemiology, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine AlphaFold (Google DeepMind) Story produced by Annie Iezzi. —

David Pogue, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2024 The State Department announced that an American teacher arrested at a Russian airport on drug charges more than three years ago has been designated as wrongfully detained by the U.S. government. —

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