Stephen Dinan

Catch, release, murder: HHS withholds answers on suspected MS-13 migrant charged with slaying woman

Top Republicans said the Health and Human Services Department is withholding from Congress a report on its handling of a migrant juvenile who was caught illegally entering the country and released and now stands accused of murdering a 20-year-old woman in Maryland.

September 25, 2023

FBI defied agents with aggressive approach to search of Trump’s home

The Justice Department pushed for an aggressive approach to search for classified documents at Donald Trump's home after overruling agents who wanted to try to gain the former president's cooperation, a senior FBI official said.

September 24, 2023

DHS breaks record with more than 300,000 unauthorized entries in August

Homeland Security saw 304,162 unauthorized migrants enter the country in August alone, breaking the previous monthly record and heightening the challenges confronting the Biden administration.

September 22, 2023

Supreme Court to take up guns — possibly abortion, diversity — in 2023 term

The conservative-leaning Supreme Court over the past two years has rewritten jurisprudence on guns, race and abortion. It's about to confront the results of those rulings in its term that begins next week.

September 22, 2023

GOP demands transparency on Afghans airlifted to U.S. as Mayorkas renews amnesty

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee demanded answers Thursday from the State Department over who is helping Afghans settle into the U.S.

September 21, 2023

Mayorkas’ latest border reset: More amnesty and more troops; Venezuelans get special status

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is attempting his third immigration policy reset in just nine months, announcing new troop deployments to the border and faster deportation of families, coupled with an expanded amnesty for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants and more generous work permits to other illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

September 21, 2023

Telework’s empty buildings open the door for Legionnaires’ disease

The water supply in at least six federal government buildings is contaminated with the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease, and the problem may be even more widespread, according to the inspector general who oversees U.S. properties.

September 21, 2023

DHS announces another immigration reset: More troops for border, more amnesty for those already here

With the southern border being pounded by a new wave of illegal immigrants, Homeland Security announced a new deployment of 800 active-duty troops to the border and said it will expand a speedy deportation program to try to deter the surge of families.

September 20, 2023

DHS scrambles to deal with thousands of migrants swarming across border Wednesday in Texas

Homeland Security shut down some lanes of traffic at a Mexican border crossing Wednesday and shifted personnel to help with the latest crisis, a new surge of thousands of migrants streaming into Eagle Pass, Texas.

September 20, 2023

Wuhan lab barred from HHS money for 10 years

The federal government has slapped a punitive 10-year ban on China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, barring it from getting any money through the Health and Human Services Department.

September 20, 2023

AG Garland distances himself from FBI’s memo, says that ‘Catholics are not extremists’

Attorney General Merrick Garland distanced himself Wednesday from an FBI memo labeling some practicing Catholics as extremists who deserve scrutiny, saying he was "appalled" by the insinuation.

September 20, 2023

‘We will not be intimidated,’ defiant Garland tells Congress

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday told Congress he doesn't take orders from President Biden or Congress as he defended his department's seemingly disparate handling of investigations into Hunter Biden and former President Donald Trump.

September 20, 2023

Five questions Merrick Garland must answer when he faces House Judiciary Committee

A House committee will question Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday at a hearing led by one of his staunchest critics: Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan.

September 19, 2023

Traumatized children taken from parents; migrant surge forces splits in Border Patrol facilities

Homeland Security is separating children from their families in Border Patrol facilities in Texas, saying the surge of migrants is too overwhelming to accommodate them all.

September 19, 2023

Fate of Elizabeth Warren’s politically immune bureau rests with Supreme Court

The question before the justices is whether Congress can relinquish its power of the purse to another branch of government.

September 18, 2023

Surge halts screenings of terrorism suspects; border officers lack time, tools

The number of illegal immigrant terrorism suspects -- people whose names trigger the government's terrorism watchlist -- is breaking records, igniting a debate on just how real the threat of a terrorist encroachment at the southern border is.

September 17, 2023

IRS to hire 3,700 new employees to audit the wealthy

The IRS said Friday it has launched a nationwide search to recruit 3,700 new employees that the tax agency said it wants to use to expand audits on the country's wealthiest taxpayers.

September 15, 2023

IRS shuts down pandemic tax credit after being overrun with fraud

The IRS shut down a pandemic-era tax credit program on Thursday, saying it had become too much of a target for scammers.

September 14, 2023

After gun charges brought to Hunter Biden, questions swirl over second firearm from laptop footage

Video from his abandoned laptop computer appears to show a naked Hunter Biden holding a semi-automatic pistol, with the hammer cocked and his finger on the trigger. That is markedly different from the Colt revolver that resulted in charges against Mr. Biden.

September 14, 2023

Supreme Court halts ruling that blocked White House pressure on social media companies

The Supreme Court halted a court ruling Thursday that had ordered the White House and FBI to stop coercing social media companies to erase content the government didn't like.

September 14, 2023