Stephen Dinan

Supreme Court case reopens 160-year-old battle over birthright citizenship rights

You don't have to go very deep into the U.S. Constitution to see the word "citizen" appear. It's first used in Article I, Section 2, where the founding document says to serve in the House of Representatives someone must have been a citizen for seven years.

March 29, 2026

Border Patrol agent charged with strangling migrant, concealing body cam evidence

Federal prosecutors announced charges against a U.S. Border Patrol agent who they say handcuffed and strangled a detainee, then tried to conceal the body camera footage of the incident.

March 27, 2026

Illegal immigrant charged with illegally voting in 2024 election in Texas

An illegal immigrant who'd been living under the stolen identity of an American citizen has been charged with voting in Texas in the 2024 presidential election, federal authorities said.

March 27, 2026

Minnesota triumphs over Trump in lawsuit on illegal immigration tuition

A federal judge has sided with Minnesota in ruling that the state's policy of offering in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrant college students isn't trumped by federal law.

March 27, 2026

Epstein victim sues DOJ, Google over release of her name in files

A woman who said she is a survivor of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has filed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government, claiming officials wrongly released information on 100 victims as part of the recent document dump.

March 27, 2026

House panel finds Florida Dem Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick cheated on campaign rules

A House subcommittee has concluded that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick gamed the system to siphon ill-gotten money into her political campaigns, provided false information on her financial reports and gave special treatment to associates when doling out earmark spending projects.

March 27, 2026

Judge orders Trump administration to nix its ban on using Anthropic’s AI

The Trump administration likely broke the law when it banned the government from using the artificial intelligence tool Claude and forbade any contractors from doing business with its creator, Anthropic PBC, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

March 26, 2026

Democratic congresswoman accused in hearing of siphoning COVID cash to her campaign

With President Trump putting a spotlight on fraud, Congress sought to make an example of one of its own members Thursday, holding a rare public hearing to accuse Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of siphoning millions of dollars of ill-gotten money into her campaigns.

March 26, 2026

Treasury will add Trump’s signature to future U.S. paper currency

President Trump has found another thing to slap his name on: U.S. currency.

March 26, 2026

ICE officer at airport saves choking 1-year-old

An ICE officer deployed to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to help TSA move the lines along helped save a 1-year-old boy who had stopped breathing on Thursday.

March 26, 2026

Sanctuary cities become staging area for crime, infect neighboring communities: Oversight report

Sanctuary cities create "staging areas" for illegal immigrant criminals and their violence spills over into neighboring jurisdictions that do try to cooperate with federal authorities, the House Oversight and Reform Committee said in a new report Thursday.

March 26, 2026

DOJ says ICE gave court wrong policy on arrests at immigration courthouses

Department of Justice lawyers have told a federal judge that ICE provided wrong information about the deportation agency's policy on arrests at immigration courthouses -- information that was used by a judge in a major ruling last year.

March 26, 2026

Dems, GOP tee up new debate on major changes to Social Security

Social Security has long been known as the third rail of politics, given that every attempt to fix the program over the past 30 years has proven politically toxic -- but a valiant group of senators is plowing ahead anyway

March 25, 2026

DHS’ strict detention policy for migrants gets OK from appeals court

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that the Trump administration is likely on solid legal ground with its new interpretation allowing mandatory detention of illegal immigrants as they await their deportation hearings.

March 25, 2026

Trump’s cost-cutting at IRS blunts tax agency’s AI plans

President Trump's moves to slash the IRS have severely dented the tax agency's ability to harness artificial intelligence, according to a new audit.

March 25, 2026

Federal appeals court says El Salvador’s prisons aren’t bad enough to justify U.S. asylum

El Salvador's prisons may be notorious for their harsh approach to law and order, but they aren't bad enough to justify someone gaining asylum or similar protections in the U.S., a federal appeals court ruled this week.

March 25, 2026

Venezuelan man files $1.3 million wrongful deportation lawsuit against DHS

A Venezuelan man who spent months in a Salvadoran terrorist prison after he was deported from the U.S. last year has filed a $1.3 million lawsuit saying he was the victim of President Trump's hateful rhetoric and an illegal use of the Alien Enemies Act.

March 24, 2026

Jack Smith obtained secret subpoenas for Kash Patel’s phone records

Special Counsel Jack Smith's team, which was pursuing Donald Trump in the period between his presidencies, obtained two secret subpoenas for phone records from Kash Patel, the man who would go on to become head of the FBI.

March 24, 2026

Minnesota sues to get evidence from DHS shootings

Minnesota filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday asking a judge to force the Trump administration to turn over evidence from the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two Americans killed by Homeland Security personnel in Minneapolis in January.

March 24, 2026

Supreme Court tries to define where the U.S. border begins for asylum purposes

It turns out that where the U.S. border begins, at least for purposes of asylum, is not actually clear.

March 24, 2026