The headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development was closed weeks ago. Now, those who worked there are being allowed to return briefly to pick up their things.

KELEMEN: The Biden administration opened new embassies in the Pacific and brought in the largest class of foreign service officers in years. Yazdgerdi says the department was only just recovering from ...

Michele Kelemen has been with NPR for two decades, starting as NPR's Moscow bureau chief and now covering the State Department and Washington's diplomatic corps. Her reports can be heard on all ...

Here's NPR's Michele Kelemen. MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: The Trump administration's break with European allies over Ukraine was clear in several votes at the U.N., culminating in the Security Council.

President Trump upended U.S. - Russia policy in one week, and foreign policy experts are trying to understand why and what might come next.

They both called it a productive and solid meeting. Ukraine was not at the table, as NPR's Michele Kelemen reports. MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: After several hours of talks in Riyadh, Secretary of ...

Advocates for the State Department say this could hurt America's ability to support American businesses and interests abroad, as NPR's Michele Kelemen reports. MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: When ...