Stephen Dinan

GOP bill would shut down Biden administration’s ‘ecogrief’ training

House Republicans are moving to derail the Biden administration's "ecogrief" training for federal employees, attaching language to a spending bill that would bar the Interior Department from offering the classes to its employees.

July 16, 2023

Sen. James Lankford calls for reinforcements to stop drugs at border

Stopping fentanyl at the border often means spotting packages concealed as cargo in vehicles at border crossings -- but the government is struggling just to man the scanning machines.

July 12, 2023

ICE released a repeat child sex offender who is now accused of raping a 13-year-old girl

The Biden administration has made a point of trying to deport immigrants with sex offenses on their records, so it's surprising that they never went after Ransford Perry.

July 11, 2023

Lawmakers ask VA to stop ‘cruel’ experiments on cats

Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough approved an experiment last year to implant sensors for a prosthetic hand into cats -- a move that members of Congress say is "at odds" with new federal laws meant to limit the government's use of dogs, cats and primates in experiments.

July 11, 2023

DHS opens new pathway for Central American migrants to reach U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has opened a new avenue for migrants from Central America to reach the U.S. without skirting the border, announcing the start Friday of a parole program that will let people jump the green card line and enter earlier.

July 7, 2023

State’s expanded voting rules test federal Election Day law

Activists are challenging the expansion of Election Day into a full election season with a new lawsuit aimed at trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle.

July 6, 2023

Race in college admission essays could spark new legal battles, court watchers say

The man who led the lawsuit that upended universities' race-based affirmative action policies warned schools against trying to find a workaround by asking Black and Hispanic applicants to focus on their race or ethnicity in their admission essays.

July 6, 2023

Overwhelmed Border Patrol releases terrorism suspect into U.S.: Federal audit

The Border Patrol caught a terrorism suspect at the southern border but was too overwhelmed by the surge of migrants to properly flag the person and instead released the person into the country, according to a new government audit.

July 5, 2023

Prostitutes for Hunter Biden cross legality line

Tucked deep within IRS criminal investigators' testimony about Hunter Biden is the revelation that the Justice Department, in addition to probing tax and gun crimes, was also collecting data to charge the president's son with transporting prostitutes across state lines.

July 5, 2023

Food stamp errors soar since pandemic onset; 10% overpaid

The food stamp program was slammed with fraud and bungling during the pandemic, leading to the highest rate of "improper payments" on record last year, according to new government data.

July 4, 2023

Civil rights groups challenge Harvard over ‘mostly White’ donor admissions policy

Civil rights advocates filed a challenge on Monday to Harvard University's legacy and donor admissions policies, calling them unfair giveaways to "mostly White" students.

July 3, 2023

Biden is forced to build Trump’s border wall

Homeland Security said Friday it will build 20 more miles of border wall, carrying out some of former President Donald Trump's marquee campaign promise.

June 30, 2023

DHS opens wider door for illegal immigrants to schedule their arrivals

Homeland Security announced late Friday that it is expanding the daily number of slots for unauthorized migrants to schedule appointments to come into the U.S. to 1,450 a day.

June 30, 2023

Supreme Court to hear major gun rights case in next term

The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear a case involving whether the government can bar domestic violence perpetrators from owning a gun, setting up the next big test of gun rights for the justices.

June 30, 2023

Roberts warns Supreme Court justices to stop sniping at each other

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. closed out the Supreme Court's term on Friday with a warning to justices to cut out the carping, saying that the increasingly harsh language they're using in their opinions to attack each other's rulings is hurting the court.

June 30, 2023

Supreme Court shoots down Biden’s student loan forgiveness

The Supreme Court struck down President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, ruling Friday that those kinds of big policy questions must be left to Congress, not to executive action.

June 30, 2023

Black student groups push back after high court ends affirmative action

Black students predicted minority enrollment at major universities will plummet in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down affirmative action admissions policies.

June 29, 2023

Black justices battle over meaning of equality in affirmative action case

Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday offered a majestic view of America waiting to be unshackled from the evils of racial discrimination that began with slavery, persisted through segregation and most recently manifested in affirmative action.

June 29, 2023

House GOP demands interviews with DOJ, IRS officials in Hunter Biden probe

House Republican chairmen said Thursday that they want to interview the high-ranking Justice Department, FBI and IRS officials who have been accused of derailing a proper probe into Hunter Biden's illegal activities.

June 29, 2023

‘Kick them when they’re down’: MLK’s family blasts affirmative action ruling

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a searing rebuke to the Supreme Court after Thursday's ruling striking down race-based affirmative action policies, saying it was an attack on "Black and Brown Americans."

June 29, 2023