The State Department says its destruction of 500 metric tons of emergency food aid that was stored in a warehouse in the Middle East was required because it had expired.

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

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein.

The State Department has formally advised staffers that it will be sending layoff notices to some of them soon.