Stephen Dinan

FBI director said bureau ‘does the right thing in the right way’

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray defended his bureau against complaints of politicization and abuse of power, saying Tuesday that his agents do "the right thing in the right way."

November 15, 2022

Mayorkas says he’s not leaving DHS job this year

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday shot down the suggestion he will resign this year.

November 15, 2022

Homeland Security claims progress as border numbers continue to set records

After announcing a new get-tough policy on Venezuelan migrants, officials said their number dropped from 1,100 a day to about 300 a day.

November 14, 2022

Lame-duck Congress creates window for legalizing Dreamers

Immigrant rights activists will descend on Washington this week to urge Democrats to take advantage of what may be their last remaining weeks of total control of Congress to pass a broad legalization bill for illegal immigrants.

November 14, 2022

Biden border chief resigns amid pressure from Homeland Security

President Biden's border chief Chris Magnus resigned Saturday, bowing to pressure from his bosses while exposing chaos behind the scenes at the Department of Homeland Security.

November 12, 2022

Mayorkas asked for the border chief’s resignation; he refused

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus to resign this week but he refused, according to news reports.

November 11, 2022

Voters rewarded governors who reopened fastest from COVID

The pandemic was the defining issue for many governors on the ballot last week, and those who pushed for the fastest reopenings after the initial wave of lockdowns were among the biggest winners.

November 11, 2022

Capitol rioter pleads guilty to bashing cop with skateboard

A Texas man pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting a police officer by striking him in the side with a skateboard during the Jan. 6 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol.

November 10, 2022

‘What-ifs’ plague GOP after midterms temper outlook, spark Trump criticism

Republicans are staring at a slate of "what-if" questions as they try to figure out why their chance to steamroll Democrats in the midterm elections failed to materialize.

November 9, 2022

GOP makes major gains among Latino voters

Republicans showed marked improvement among Latino voters on an otherwise lackluster night, claiming 39% of their vote nationally, according to networks' exit polling, which showed a 10-percentage-point increase over the 2018 midterm elections.

November 9, 2022

Ohio congressman is first Republican House incumbent to lose

Democrat Greg Landsman ousted longtime Republican Rep. Steve Chabot in Ohio on Tuesday, delivering the first red-to-blue flip of the night.

November 9, 2022

Voters say view from White House is largely divorced from what’s happening in their lives

President Biden's insistence that the economy is strong -- and certainly not in a recession -- rang hollow Tuesday to voters who said the view from Pennsylvania Avenue is largely divorced from what they see in their lives.

November 8, 2022

Smugglers demand illegal immigrant pay $4,000 pregnancy fee

An illegal immigrant told Border Patrol agents she and her husband were going to be charged an extra $4,000 smuggling fee to be brought deeper into the U.S. after her smugglers realized she was too big to make it in their usual smuggling method.

November 8, 2022

Inflation, crime top abortion, climate as voters give GOP the edge

Crime has become the tipping-point issue and has joined inflation for a one-two punch that prognosticators say appears ready to deliver significant gains to Republicans in House, Senate and governor's races nationwide.

November 7, 2022

‘Unacceptable’: Republicans blast Biden efforts to recover stolen pandemic unemployment cash

Key House Republicans have demanded the secretary of Labor preserve evidence of how it's grappled with the massive amount of fraud in the pandemic unemployment program, saying the department's response to the theft of perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars has been "unacceptable."

November 7, 2022

Feds paid for room service, laundry and babysitters for illegal immigrants kept at hotels

Homeland Security not only put illegal immigrant families up in hotels at taxpayer expense but the contract it signed insisted they be given five-star treatment with laundry service, their choice of mattresses and guards -- not to keep them in, but to keep others out.

November 6, 2022

Who checks the fact-checkers after indignant accusations fizzle out?

Fact-checkers posit themselves as independent arbiters of truth. Many are even part of the International Fact-Checking Network, which lays out standards for how they should operate.

November 6, 2022

Border numbers worsened in October; historic number of gotaways

Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 210,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border in October, according to preliminary numbers obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform that show yet another rise in the level of chaos along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

November 5, 2022

Supreme Court’s two Black justices diverge on affirmative action

Perhaps it's fitting that a Supreme Court now deciding the largest affirmative action case in 50 years finally has two Black justices sitting on it.

November 3, 2022

Fact-checkers were wrong: Once mocked, GOP gets last word on terrorism suspects at border

When top Republicans last year warned that Border Patrol agents were catching terrorist suspects jumping the southern border, fact-checkers were swift to object. A year later, the facts are on the Republican side -- but the fact-checkers still aren't.

November 3, 2022