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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Of the $300 million the administration has pledged, $200 million is from the Defense Department; the other $100 million is supposed to come from the State Department.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
In 2016 and 2017, when more than 700,000 Rohingya were driven into Bangladesh, ethnic Rakhine people were accused of having helped kill their Muslim neighbors, an operation that has since been formally labeled a genocide by the U.S. State Department.
—Verena Hölzl, New York Times, 3 June 2024
But the next president will also inherit a number of crises, including dire water shortages, a struggling healthcare system, stubborn inequality and violence from criminal gangs and cartels so severe that the U.S. State Department warns its citizens not to travel to many Mexican states.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
The decision revives a lawsuit that the NRA filed against Maria Vullo, the former head of the New York State Department of Financial Services.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 May 2024
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 June 2024
In 2016 and 2017, when more than 700,000 Rohingya were driven into Bangladesh, ethnic Rakhine people were accused of having helped kill their Muslim neighbors, an operation that has since been formally labeled a genocide by the U.S. State Department.
—Verena Hölzl, New York Times, 3 June 2024
But the next president will also inherit a number of crises, including dire water shortages, a struggling healthcare system, stubborn inequality and violence from criminal gangs and cartels so severe that the U.S. State Department warns its citizens not to travel to many Mexican states.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
The decision revives a lawsuit that the NRA filed against Maria Vullo, the former head of the New York State Department of Financial Services.
—Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 May 2024
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“State Department.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/State%20Department. Accessed 7 Jun. 2024.
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