Secretary of State

The Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as secretary of state

President-elect Joe Biden nominated former Secretary of State John Kerry to be special presidential envoy for climate. Here are five things to know about Kerry.

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Antony Blinken to be his nominee for secretary of state.

A longtime national security aide to President-elect Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, is expected to become Biden’s nominee for secretary of state

President-elect Joe Biden was asked on Tuesday about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s remarks that there would be a smooth transition to a “second Trump administration” and the Trump administration’s refusal to concede the election. “The fact that they’re not willing to acknowledge we won at this point is not of much consequence in our planning and what we’re able...

Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar spoke to reporters Thursday about where the battleground state’s elections officials are in the ballot-counting process. Boockvar also dismissed any possibility of widespread voter fraud and stressed the security of Pennsylvania’s election system.

With less than a month until the election, Secretary of State William Galvin on Monday urged voters to make a plan to vote and not to wait if they anticipate casting their ballot by mail to ensure they are counted. Galvin said that more than 1.6 million registered voters have already requested mail-in ballots, and he predicted that number could…

Early voting in Vermont began Monday for the Nov. 3 election, along with the mailing of ballots to all active, registered voters in the state. Voters should expect to receive their ballots by early October, Secretary of State Jim Condos said. Voters whose ballots have not arrived by Oct. 7 should contact their town or city clerk. “The hard work…

The White House is walking back President Trump’s comments in which he urged his supporters to attempt to cast two ballots, one by mail, one in person.

The senior adviser central to the investigation into allegations that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used an employee to run personal errands is now leading the charge to find support among former staffers against what they describe as a “smear campaign,” NBC News has learned.

Two Democratic senators filed Wednesday to officially be on the ballot in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, a day before Vice President Mike Pence was set to arrive to file on the president’s behalf. Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota visited the statehouse to sign the paperwork as she qualified for her party’s December debate, having reached 5% support in a Quinnipiac...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Ukraine this week, making his first trip to the country at the heart of President Donald Trump’s impeachment. As the Senate weighs options for a trial, Pompeo will depart Thursday on a five-nation tour of Europe and Central Asia. Ukraine will be the first stop on the trip, the State Department said...

A 1-year-old boy who was diagnosed with meningococcal disease is going home after more than a month in a Boston hospital.

A D.C. restaurant that was once at the center of an online conspiracy theory dubbed “pizzagate” was intentionally set on fire, fire officials say.

New Hampshire’s presidential primary is set for Feb. 11, eight days after Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner made the date official Monday during a statehouse news conference.

President Xi Jinping said Friday that Beijing wants to work for a trade deal with the United States but is not afraid to “fight back” to protect its own interests. Echoing the upbeat tone adopted by other Chinese officials in recent days, Xi told a visiting U.S. business delegation that China holds a “positive attitude” about the trade talks. “As...

The internet slowly trickled back on in Iran on Friday after a dayslong shutdown by authorities amid protests and unrest that followed government-set gasoline prices sharply rising, as the U.S. sanctioned the country’s prominent telecommunications minister over the outage. A week after the gasoline hike, the loosening of the internet shutdown suggests Iran’s government believes it put down the demonstrations...

Under Secretary of State David Hale defended former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, calling her an “exceptional officer doing exceptional work.” He testified that President Donald Trump’s tweets targeting the diplomat were “wrong.”

Under Secretary of State David Hale defended former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch during Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, calling her an “exceptional officer doing exceptional work.” He testified that President Donald Trump’s tweets targeting the diplomat were “wrong.”

Senior Trump administration official Mina Chang resigned from her job at the State Department two and a half hours after NBC News went to her spokesperson to ask about newly discovered false claims she had made about her charity work. NBC News had previously reported that Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability...