Stephen Dinan

Federal agency tries to downplay its ‘ecogrief’ training; skeptics question employee triggers

The Fish and Wildlife Service downplayed the scope of its training for employees to handle "ecogrief," telling Congress on Thursday that no more than 150 employees took the classes and calling the sessions "small bore."

March 23, 2023

Bitcoin ATMs were used to launder COVID fraud money, feds charge

Federal authorities arrested the founder of Coindawg, a bitcoin ATM operation, and charged him with money laundering, saying he helped steal pandemic loans and used the ATMs to launder the proceeds.

March 23, 2023

DHS nabs migrant smuggler using tow truck to hide people

Prosecutors have brought charges against a man they say tried to sneak illegal immigrants through a Border Patrol checkpoint by packing them in the rear of an SUV, then calling to have it towed through the checkpoint.

March 23, 2023

Biden endorsement comes at expense of Nature’s credibility; Republican readers lose interest

Nature magazine is finding out that Republicans also consume scientific literature -- but they're less likely to do so when they perceive the publication has gone woke.

March 22, 2023

Red states flee bipartisan voter roll cleanup group, blame its left-wing election agenda

A seemingly inoffensive bipartisan outfit created to help states sort out their voter rolls has emerged as the latest partisan battlefield, with a half-dozen GOP-led states canceling their involvement with the organization this year, saying it's turned into a proving ground for left-wing ideas.

March 22, 2023

Florida lawmaker who sponsored ‘don’t say gay’ legislation pleads guilty to pandemic fraud

Joseph Harding, a former state representative in Florida, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from his attempt to collect pandemic loans to which he wasn't entitled.

March 21, 2023

D.C. man rebukes Fauci’s COVID-19 vaccine pitch on video: ‘You all attack people with fear’

A D.C. man delivered a verbal scolding to Dr. Anthony Fauci in a newly revealed video showing the world-famous doctor's struggles to convince Black residents in the city's poorest area to get the coronavirus vaccine back in 2021.

March 20, 2023

Good guys’ guns save lives more often than reported

The founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center says many instances of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun have been left out of the FBI's database of active shooting incidents, fueling a false narrative that rarely do good guys with guns stop shootings.

March 20, 2023

Supreme Court vacates ruling on parental notice for Missouri teen who sought an abortion

The Supreme Court on Monday erased a lower-court ruling that had held a county court clerk was liable for telling a teen seeking a judge's permission to bypass a parental consent law before obtaining an abortion that her parent would be notified anyway.

March 20, 2023

Democrats’ investigation says Trump failed to report foreign gifts while in White House

President Trump and his family failed to report nearly $300,000 worth of gifts from foreign nations during his time in office, according to a new report by Democrats on the House oversight committee which said the unreported gifts could create constitutional problems.

March 17, 2023

Republicans say Biden’s rules for firms competing with China on chips make U.S. less competitive

Republican senators lashed out Thursday against the Commerce Department for demanding companies that apply for new funding to compete with China in semiconductor manufacturing also meet unrelated benchmarks for providing childcare and labor union set-asides.

March 16, 2023

CBP denies claim cartel planted ‘explosive’ at border; says device was ‘fake’

Customs and Border Protection said late Wednesday that the "explosive" that members of Congress described at the border was actually a bunch of sand wrapped in tape with a rope protruding like a wick.

March 15, 2023

Border Patrol chief pleads for more agents, disagrees with Biden halting border wall construction

Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz delivered a devastating picture of the border on Wednesday, telling lawmakers that a majority of sectors along the U.S.-Mexico boundary are not secure and saying it was a mistake to stop wall construction.

March 15, 2023

Illegal crossings at southern border remained stable in February

Homeland Security nabbed 154,998 illegal immigrants coming across the southwestern border in February, or about the same as January, which officials said was further proof that their new carrot-and-stick approach is working.

March 15, 2023

Rep. Greene says cartels planted bomb on U.S. border, endangering agents

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday said operatives from a Mexican smuggling cartel planted an explosive device on the U.S. side of the border, endangering Border Patrol agents.

March 15, 2023

Border chief contradicts Biden DHS, says border is not under control

Homeland Security does not have "operational control" of the border, the top Border Patrol agent told Congress Wednesday, contradicting the words of his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

March 15, 2023

Uzis, illegal immigrants and fentanyl: Feds charge men with selling guns to cartel

Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against two men they say were trying to sell serious firepower to Mexican smuggling cartels.

March 14, 2023

D.C.’s noncitizen voting law takes effect, faces first legal challenge

Washington's new law on noncitizen voting took effect Tuesday and drew its first legal challenge from the Immigration Reform Law Institute, which says it harms the voting rights of actual citizens.

March 14, 2023

GOP senators blast DHS for hiking fees on farmers in order to fund asylum cases

Sen. Marsha Blackburn led a group of Republican senators Tuesday in blasting the Biden administration for trying to raise fees that businesses pay to bring in immigrant workers, saying the president wants farmers to pay the price for his border chaos.

March 14, 2023

House panel rips federal agency’s ‘ecogrief’ training, warns of probe if ‘colossal waste’ continues

The House Natural Resources Committee demanded answers Tuesday from the Fish and Wildlife Service over its ecogrief training for employees and warned a full investigation could ensue unless the agency cancels the course and uses the money for more important priorities like saving endangered animals.

March 14, 2023