Stephen Dinan

Trump talks migrants eating pets, Harris ducks immigration question

Former President Donald Trump elevated claims of migrants in an Ohio town eating dogs and cats to the national stage Tuesday, saying it was more evidence of the chaos from President Biden's border management.

September 10, 2024

Trump says he’ll send Harris a MAGA hat

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris has tacked so far toward his own positions on immigration and other policies that he is "going to send her a MAGA hat."

September 10, 2024

Assassins keep cartels in control of migrants; U.S. operations ‘already rooted’

Congress heard horrifying testimony Tuesday about a network of assassins associated with Mexican cartels and operating in the U.S.

September 10, 2024

Biden abandoned 90% of Afghan allies in Kabul evacuation, House report finds

As the Taliban fighters were closing in on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, American diplomats stared at a pile of passports they had collected from Afghan allies who had assisted the war effort and were seeking a special visa to get them out of harm's way.

September 9, 2024

DOJ issues warning as GOP states try to clean noncitizens from voter rolls

The Justice Department issued a warning to states Monday to tread lightly in trying to clean up their election systems of bogus names and ineligible voters, firing a shot across the bow of GOP-led states that have been trying to erase noncitizens from their rolls.

September 9, 2024

U.S. authorities charge ‘Terrorgram’ leaders with fomenting global White supremacist attacks

Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against two people associated with "Terrorgram," an online network of White supremacists that encouraged attacks on Black, gay and immigrant targets, as well as assassinations of high-ranking American officials.

September 9, 2024

Fraud plagues Biden ‘parole’ program: Michelle Obama’s passport used; dead people named sponsors

Gang members and scammers using dead people's names were applying to be sponsors for President Biden's fraud-riddled immigration "parole" program that has welcomed hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, The Washington Times has learned.

September 9, 2024

IRS recovers $1.3 billion from rich people who ducked taxes

The IRS has now clawed back $1.3 billion from the country's wealthiest taxpayers using initiatives launched after President Biden won historic funding increases for the tax agency.

September 6, 2024

Appeals courts increasingly skeptical of gun controls in wake of Supreme Court rulings

It's been a busy summer for federal judges as they've wrestled with the Second Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court's significant but confusing string of gun rulings over the last few years.

September 5, 2024

Taxpayer-funded Biden road signs don’t violate Hatch Act

President Biden's self-promoting road signs bragging that he secured taxpayer money for infrastructure projects don't cross the line into illegal campaign activity, the government's chief Hatch Act watchdog has concluded.

September 5, 2024

Navy secretary slapped with Hatch Act violation for urging Biden’s reelection

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro got too political earlier this year when he used a trip to Britain to urge the reelection of President Biden and to denigrate former President Donald Trump -- and ended up violating the Hatch Act, the government's Office of Special Counsel has concluded.

September 5, 2024

Russians accused of interfering in politics; disinformation sows U.S. discord

The Biden administration accused Russia on Wednesday of a wide-ranging and sophisticated effort to disrupt U.S. politics with misinformation crafted in Moscow and injected into the American discourse through unwitting American social media "influencers."

September 4, 2024

Texas attorney general sues to stop mass voter registration mailings

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Bexar County on Wednesday to stop officials' plans to mass-mail voter registration forms to residents, saying they could end up in the hands of illegal immigrants and others ineligible to vote.

September 4, 2024

Biden’s tax threshold adds marriage penalty; couples at higher risk for federal audits

President Biden introduced a "potential marriage penalty" into the tax system when he ordered the IRS to conduct more audits of higher-income Americans, the agency's inspector general said.

September 3, 2024

Taxpayers foot bill for Mayorkas’ generosity; employees given $2.6 billion in extra vacation time

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has given so much extra time off to department employees that one of his agencies has had to create an internal system to help employees keep track of it.

September 2, 2024

Feds violate OSHA standards at thousands of government properties

The Environmental Protection Agency, which polices chemical contaminants, has been subjecting employees at its Chicago offices to water contaminated with metal and Legionella, the bacteria that causes the deadly Legionnaires' disease.

August 29, 2024

FBI continues to mishandle child sex-crime allegations, inspector general finds

Years after its damning failure to investigate former U.S. Olympic doctor and serial sex predator Larry Nassar, the FBI still isn't handling child sex crime reports properly, an inspector general said Thursday.

August 29, 2024

Feds charge two foreign men for swatting Marjorie Taylor Greene, scores of other officials

Federal authorities unveiled charges Wednesday against two foreigners they say were responsible for a flood of dangerous "swatting" incidents against senior administration officials and members of Congress, including one that matches the Christmas Day attack on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

August 28, 2024

Afghan evacuees strive to navigate U.S. culture after 3 years; aid groups help ease settlement

The Afghan evacuee experiment is still very real -- both for the evacuees and the communities that welcome them. More are still trickling in, though it's a fraction of the rushed days of late 2021, when they arrived by the tens of thousands, hastily whisked out of Kabul, sent to U.S. military bases and then released into communities to try to find their way.

August 28, 2024

Harris seems to stand on same side of wall as Trump; voters wonder whether she’s flipped on border

A report Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris had flip-flopped on her support for former President Donald Trump's border wall reverberated around Washington, leaving Americans to wonder how real it is.

August 27, 2024