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Up to 200 Americans, thousands of Afghans left behind …

In this handout provided by U.S. Central Command Public Affairs, U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, load passengers aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 24, 2021. (Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen / U.S. Air Forces Europe-Africa via Getty Images)

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Going abroad this summer? U.S. says passport waits top …

A U.S. Passport cover is seen in Washington on May 25, 2021. (Eileen Putman / Associated Press)

U.S. ‘gravely concerned’ by reports of human rights abuses …

Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Director of the Office of Emergency Programmes, center, visits internally-displaced people in Adigrat Town, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (Zerihun Sewunet/UNICEF via AP)

‘America is back’: Biden says U.S. will allow more refugees, …

President Joe Biden delivers remarks to State Department staff, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Secretary of State Pompeo quarantines after coronavirus …

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits the White House with family members, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Antony Blinken, an Obama-era veteran, expected to be tapped …

In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

O.C. man wrongly jailed in Vietnam for 27 months returns …

Michael Nguyen stands during his trial in Ho Chin Minh City, Vietnam, on June 24, 2019. (Nguyen Thanh Chung/Vietnam News Agency via Associated Press)

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Watchdogs: White House officials violated Hatch Act …

In this image from video, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks from Jerusalem during the second night of the Republican National Convention on Aug. 25, 2020. (Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via Associated Press)

U.S. special envoy for Iran stepping down, Secretary …

U.S. special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, pauses during a press conference with the Israeli prime minister in Jerusalem on June 30, 2020. (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Secretary Pompeo: U.S. ‘looking at’ banning TikTok, …

One of highest ranking black women in Trump’s administration …

Mary Elizabeth Taylor is seen in an undated photo posted to the U.S. State Department's website.

Mexican officials: Ex-drug cartel hitman ‘El Chino …

José Rodrigo Arechiga Gamboa, aka “El Chino Ántrax,” is seen in an undated photo provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Trump says it’s OK for government workers to do Pompeo’s …

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pauses while speaking at a news conference at the State Department on April 29, 2020. (ANDREW HARNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump says he fired State Dept. inspector general …

Saudi Undersecretary for Protocol Affairs Azzam bin AbdulKarim Al-Gain waves to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo off as he boards a plane at the King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, before his departure on Feb. 21, 2020. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)