Stephen Dinan

Study: Most reporters don’t believe in ‘equal’ coverage in news stories

When it comes to equal treatment of all sides in the news, the public expects far more than journalists are delivering. According to a new survey by Pew Research, only 44% of journalists say every side of an issue reported in the news deserves "equal coverage." By contrast, 76% of the American public believes in equal coverage.

July 6, 2022

Appeals court ponders end to DACA program for illegal immigrant ‘Dreamers’

With the future of hundreds of thousands of immigrant "Dreamers" on the line, the Biden administration told a federal appeals court Wednesday that the government was on firm legal footing when it created the DACA deportation amnesty a decade ago.

July 6, 2022

DHS erases barrier to legal status for some illegal immigrants

Making it back into the U.S. after being ousted is "irrelevant" to an illegal immigrant's eligibility to apply for a new legal status, the Homeland Security Department's citizenship agency says in a new policy.

July 5, 2022

Smuggling suspect in mass migrant deaths was already on ICE’s radar

The man accused of orchestrating the smuggling journey that cost 53 migrants their lives was already under "active investigation" by ICE agents in Texas, according to court documents.

July 1, 2022

Supreme Court conservative majority flexed its muscle on God, guns, abortion, climate change

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court flexed its muscle this term, delivering a blockbuster series of rulings that bend decades of jurisprudence to the right on issues such as religion, guns, abortion and climate change.

July 1, 2022

Justices say DHS has power to end Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy

The Biden administration has the legal power to end former President Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, delivering a significant win for the new administration's immigration policies.

June 30, 2022

Two Americans face capital charges in Texas migrant deaths case

Federal prosecutors announced capital smuggling charges Wednesday against two men they say were involved with the truck found on the side of a San Antonio road with the bodies of dozens of dead illegal immigrants packed inside.

June 29, 2022

Death toll rises to 53 in Texas migrant tragedy

The death toll for the migrants trapped inside a truck in the Texas heat this week has risen to 53, and 11 migrants are still hospitalized, federal authorities said Wednesday.

June 29, 2022

Feds to release list shaming over-budget and overdue transportation projects

The Transportation Department will soon have to release its first name-and-shame list of federally funded projects that have ballooned a billion dollars over budget.

June 29, 2022

Three smuggling suspects in custody after 50 migrants die in Texas

Federal investigators said they had three smuggling suspects in custody Tuesday and at least 50 migrants died of heat exposure after being trapped in the back of a truck in the hot Texas sun.

June 28, 2022

Biden complains of ‘political grandstanding’ as Republicans blame him for migrant deaths

President Biden said Tuesday the deaths of 50 migrants in Texas this week were "horrifying," but insisted he's making progress in going after the smugglers who are leading a record number of illegal immigrants to their deaths.

June 28, 2022

50 migrants found dead in tractor-trailer in San Antonio; Abbott blames Biden’s border policies

Authorities said they found 50 dead migrants in the back of a truck trailer in San Antonio, Texas, in one of the worst border tragedies in history.

June 27, 2022

Biden’s ICE nominee withdraws from consideration

President Biden's nominee to be the next director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday he has pulled his name from consideration, delivering a blow to a Biden administration struggling to get a handle on its immigration policy.

June 27, 2022

Union calls for DOJ to review its firing of Trump immigration judges

The union for immigration judges has asked the Justice Department to revisit its ouster of several judges hired during the Trump administration, questioning whether the firings were illegal -- and calling them unseemly at the very least.

June 27, 2022

High court allows football coach’s prayer as private religious expression

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a public high school football coach who was fired after he prayed at the 50-yard line immediately after games, saying the government can't punish someone for what a majority of justices held was personal, private religious expression.

June 27, 2022

Scammer who shut down Iraqi refugee program gets three years in prison

An Iraqi national whose fraud scheme caused the U.S. government to shut down a critical lifeline for Iraqi refugees was sentenced to a little more than three years in prison.

June 27, 2022

Supreme Court justices apply originalism as test for constitutional challenges on abortion, guns

The Constitution became a little simpler with last week's decisions on guns and abortion, as the Supreme Court's conservative wing pared back decades of legal rule-making and declared that the founding document means what it says -- and only that.

June 26, 2022

Abortion dissenters warn same-sex marriage, contraceptive rights could go next

Americans should fear what comes next, the three dissenting justices wrote Friday in excoriating the Supreme Court's ruling overturning nearly 50 years of abortion precedent.

June 24, 2022

Trump: ‘I delivered’ Roe abortion victory with court picks

Former President Donald Trump said Friday that the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision establishing a national right to abortion because he was able to install three nominees on the bench during his term in office.

June 24, 2022

Chief Justice Roberts strikes own path on abortion ruling

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. paved his own path in Friday's abortion ruling, siding with his fellow GOP-appointed justices in backing Mississippi's 15-week ban as constitutional, but saying he would not have gone as far as his colleagues did in unraveling all of Roe v. Wade.

June 24, 2022