During a State Department press briefing on Thursday, spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about an Israeli airstrike on a church in Gaza that killed three people.

Trump administration officials have defended the mass dismissals, saying they are overdue and necessary to make the department leaner and more efficient. Among the employees laid off are more than 100 ...

The roles of some of the State Department employees fired last week overlap with priorities that President Donald Trump has laid out.

The department “became large and began to lose its way,” becoming “ineffectual bureaucratically,” spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters Wednesday.