Secretary of State Marco Rubio began his tenure as the top U.S. diplomat on Tuesday by pledging to keep his department at the heart of U.S. foreign policymaking and execute what he said was President Donald Trump's aim of promoting peace through strength.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is advising his department to cease refugee resettlement operations and begin ramping up vetting of visas from certain regions.

Marco Rubio will travel to Panama on his first trip abroad as secretary of State. The visit comes as Donald Trump looks to reclaim Panama's canal.

Marco Rubio was overwhelming confirmed by the Senate as secretary of State to Donald Trump. He becomes the global face of Trump's foreign policy.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan as the Trump administration kicks off its formal foreign policy engagements in discussions with the Indo-Pacific “Quad.

The Senate unanimously confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State Monday, making him the first Cabinet nominee to be confirmed.

Rubio is seen as a steady foreign policy hand who has the confidence of Trump and Senate colleagues from both parties.

President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees for the Department of Justice, State Department and more sat for Senate confirmation hearings throughout the day Wednesday.

Marco Rubio, a veteran Republican senator who once ran against Donald Trump for the party’s presidential nomination, was confirmed as his secretary of state, the first of the president’s second-term nominees to be approved by the Senate.

Observers welcome Rubio’s statements that they say indicate continuity in US policy and ‘more robust support’ for Manila in South China Sea row.

Anthony Scaramucci who had a very brief tenure at the White House already and was an extremely trusted lieutenant to US President Donald Trump recently asserted that Marco Rubio and Tesla CEO Elon Musk will not even last for a year and then went on to mock Vivek Ramaswamy for being sacked from the DOGE even before it started working.