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Friends of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi hold posters and banners with his pictures during a demonstration outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 25. File photo by Osman Orsal/Reuters

WATCH: State Department highlights Khashoggi killing in human rights report

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to students at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, on January 10, 2019. Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via Reuters

In Cairo, Secretary Pompeo repudiates Obama Mideast policy

Pompeo said Obama he was naive and timid when confronted with challenges posed by the revolts that convulsed the Middle East, including Egypt.

By Matthew Lee, Associated Press

Pompeo faces immediate challenge to fill key State Department positions

More than 70 positions, including ambassadors to Saudi Arabia and Turkey, remain open in the State Department, while several positions have nominees but await confirmation from the White House. Usually dominated by career diplomats, the Trump administration has overwhelmingly put…

By PBS NewsHour

A U.S. government handout photo released by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shows then-U.S. Central Intelligence Director Mike Pompeo meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, North Korea in a photo that Sanders said was taken over Easter weekend 2018. U.S. government via Reuters

PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode April 28, 2018

On this edition for Saturday, April 28, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses NATO and meets with key U.S. allies, and coal ash raises concerns over health risks in Puerto Rico. Also, Alfie Evans, the British toddler at the center…

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CIA Director Mike Pompeo testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Pompeo's nomination to be secretary of state on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Photo by Leah Millis/Reuters

Democrats press State pick Pompeo on Russia probe, Iran deal

One of America's top spies set out to defend his qualifications to be its top diplomat on Thursday. Mike Pompeo, a former congressman, Army officer and self-professed hawk, stressed in his Senate confirmation hearing that he believes in diplomacy and…

Tillerson is one of a wave of departures. Why is Trump cleaning house?

By PBS NewsHour

What led President Trump to shake up his national security team and dismiss Secretary of State Rex Tillerson? Judy Woodruff gets insights into the firing from Robert Costa of the Washington Post and Josh Lederman of the Associated Press.

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Will Mike Pompeo succeed where Rex Tillerson failed?

By PBS NewsHour

What was Rex Tillerson’s impact on the State Department and American diplomacy, and what will global ripple effects will his successor, current CIA director Mike Pompeo, face? Judy Woodruff gets reaction and analysis from Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to…

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Trump and Tillerson’s biggest policy disagreements

By Daniel Bush

A look at some of the biggest policy disagreements between President Donald Trump and ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Trump’s secretary of state pick headed for Senate approval

By Richard Lardner, Associated Press

The vote on Tillerson, scheduled for Wednesday, comes as tension builds among congressional Republicans and Democrats over Trump's executive order on immigrants and refugees.