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Articles by Stephen Dinan

In this Feb. 8, 2017, photo, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is shown in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) **FILE**

Federal court protects sexual predator from deportation

If prosecutors are to be believed, a Mexican immigrant spent years using his position as a psychologist for Santa Barbara County, California, raping and sodomizing female patients, filmed the assaults, then ensured victims' silence by threatening to send them to jail or a mental hospital. At the very least, Fernando Cordero admits to having sex with his patients and was convicted of trying to silence them.

August 23, 2022
Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Tens of thousands of Afghan allies still waiting for U.S. rescue a year after Taliban takeover

A year after the U.S. left him behind in Afghanistan, Will cannot understand what happened. Will, a pseudonym The Washington Times is using to protect his identity, has glowing recommendations from a U.S. Army major who called him "one of my most trusted interpreters." Yet Will is stuck in a bureaucratic battle with the State Department, which told him his file isn't complete and he can't come to the U.S. for now.

August 22, 2022
A small gap appears in the unfinished border wall Wednesday, May 19, 2021, near Sasabe, Ariz. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement also told Texas it was canceling deportation requests — known as “detainers” — on other illegal immigrants, including some who pleaded guilty to felony charges of evading arrest, had convictions for drunk driving, drug possession or domestic assault injuring a family member. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

‘Family loophole’ lies damn immigrant children to hellish homes

Federal prosecutors have brought charges against a family they say conspired to smuggle a 10-year-old illegal immigrant girl into the country and then put her through a living hell that saw her repeatedly raped, stabbed with a kitchen knife and subjected to regular beatings.

August 21, 2022
The U.S. Border Patrol says a drug-sniffing dog helped capture a suspect accused of smuggling 250 pounds of fentanyl worth more than $3 million early Monday, July 18, 2022. (Image: Courtesy of the U.S. Border Patrol) ** FILE **

July border stunner: Enough fentanyl to kill every American

Fentanyl is surging across the southern border at an astronomical rate, with July's rate of seizures shattering the previous record and tripling June's rate, according to Homeland Security Department statistics released this week.

August 16, 2022
Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. The Taliban marked the first-year anniversary of their takeover after the country's western-backed government fled and the Afghan military crumbled in the face of the insurgents' advance. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Biden, Trump trade blame on anniversary of Afghanistan collapse

Former President Donald Trump and the Biden administration traded shots Monday over who bore the most blame for last year's Afghanistan collapse, the deaths of 13 American troops and the abandonment of tens of thousands of Afghans who had been promised a safe place but were abandoned by the U.S. withdrawal.

August 15, 2022
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer is shown in this file photo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Biden administration abolishes ICE labor union

The Biden administration delivered a death sentence Thursday to the labor organization that represents thousands of employees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

August 11, 2022
Then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is seated after his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, June 25, 2021. In an interview aired by the BBC on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, Afghanistan's former president recounts his final hours in office, says he had just minutes to decide to flee and denies an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing accounts of former government officials, Taliban and even a former U.S. negotiator. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Search for missing Afghanistan cash comes up empty

Afghanistan's former president didn't make off with millions of dollars of American money last year, but other people likely did, a U.S. inspector general said Tuesday in a report detailing his yearlong effort to track down what happened.

August 9, 2022
Former President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower, late Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump stiffens grip on GOP in wake of FBI raid

Former President Donald Trump emerged Tuesday with a firmer grip on the Republican Party after the FBI's raid on his Florida home, which quickly became a clarifying event in the 2024 presidential race.

August 9, 2022
This May 8, 2008, photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies in Philadelphia. Officials at the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service said Friday, March 12, 2021, that processing the new round of stimulus payments has already begun, with the aim of having the first payments start showing up in bank accounts this weekend. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Insiders use ID access to steal from Americans

The pandemic spawned a tsunami of scams -- likely the largest fraud in world history -- and amid all of that, the government employees stand out as particularly egregious cases.

August 8, 2022
A Border Patrol agent watches as a group of migrants walk across the Rio Grande on their way to turn themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas, on June 15, 2021. The Supreme Court has certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a cornerstone Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. It was a pro forma act that has drawn attention amid near-total silence from the White House about when, how and even whether it will dismantle the policy. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

ACLU tells feds not to work with Texas on arrest of illegal immigrants

The American Civil Liberties Union is ramping up its battle against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border security push, filing a new complaint Monday with Homeland Security urging the department to limit how Border Patrol agents are able to work with Texas authorities.

August 8, 2022