Papers bearing U.S. State Department markings and detailing President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin were discovered in the business center of an Anchorage hotel, raising new questions about the handling of sensitive government information.

The U.S. has also previously criticized alleged human rights violations in Afghanistan, China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela. While the "human rights reports describe abuses in all these nations, the level of detail has been reduced" under the Trump administration's guidelines, said The Washington Post.

The U.S. Department of State updated its travel alerts for Mexico this week, warning for the first time ever of the risk of terrorism.

The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many.

The State Department is out Monday with its long-delayed annual Human Rights Report, and this year's edition looks much different than previous installations. The report, an annual U.S. government account of human rights conditions in countries around the globe, typically comes out in February or March.

Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.

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Lawmakers and activists in Europe and the United States are scrambling to stop the State Department from destroying nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives funded by the United States Agency

A "Level 3" advisory, which is the second-highest that can be issued, asks Americans to "reconsider" travel to a particular country or area, in this case the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Crime and civil unrest are the reasons for the new warning.