Skip to content
TRENDING:
Donald Trump
Advertisement

Articles by Stephen Dinan

United States Border Protection officers point their weapons at migrants as they prepared to cross the border fence to get into the U.S. side to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza) **FILE**

Whistleblower claims DHS leaders altered intelligence

Homeland Security officials altered intelligence reports about border security, White supremacy and Russian interference in the U.S., a senior department official claims in a new whistleblower complaint released Wednesday by congressional Democrats.

September 9, 2020
A migrant jumps the border fence to get into the U.S. side to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

DHS border medical care about to lapse: Audit

Homeland Security's inspector general warned Tuesday that the contract for providing medical care to migrants nabbed jumping the border will run out before the end of this month, and said there may not be enough time to get a new contract in place.

September 8, 2020
In this undated photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, excavation work continues at a site of an incomplete tunnel intended for smuggling, found stretching from Arizona to Mexico. (Courtesy of ICE via AP) ** FILE **

Raul Ortiz: Border Patrol impact seen in stash house increase

More stash houses means there's a glut of migrants who have managed to sneak across the border, but it also means the smugglers are having a tricky time getting them deeper into the U.S., officials said. That's created a pileup of migrants in U.S. border areas.

September 6, 2020
This Sunday, April 5, 2020, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Judge blocks Trump administration’s census deadline

A federal judge late Saturday issued a restraining order against the Trump administration forbidding it from ending in-person census counting on Sept. 30, ruling that more time is needed in order to have an accurate count.

September 6, 2020
In this Dec. 9, 2019, photo, mist rolls over the U.S. Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

CBO sees record-shattering spending, debt

The federal government will shatter the record for spending and deficits this year, ending at $3.3 trillion in the hole, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday, painting a grim picture of Uncle Sam's finances.

September 2, 2020
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi hair salon visit causes stir

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got her hair styled at a shuttered San Francisco salon this week that was supposed to be closed under the city's coronavirus rules -- and she didn't wear a mask.

September 1, 2020