Stephen Dinan

Supreme Court won’t let Trump use post office to block mailed ballots

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to lift an injunction blocking President Trump's attempt to use the U.S. Postal Service to regulate mailed ballots in this year's election, dealing a significant blow to the administration's effort to impose new mail voting rules.

September 14, 2026

Judge blocks new DHS policy to limit visas for foreign students, journalists

A federal judge on Monday ordered Homeland Security not to carry out its new rule limiting how long foreign students and journalists can remain in the U.S., delivering a barrage of withering shots at the Trump administration for the policy.

September 14, 2026

Global warming will mean 2.5 million fewer elderly deaths over the next 50 years

Global warming will lead to more older adults visiting emergency rooms, but fewer of them will die and overall emergency room spending should drop, according to new research by the Congressional Budget Office.

September 14, 2026

Feds ban 870,000 suspected pandemic fraudsters from getting future government loans

Vice President J.D. Vance announced Monday that the government is barring 870,000 people from getting future federal loans because they are suspected of defrauding the government during the pandemic.

September 14, 2026

Florida’s former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ kept migrants in metal cages: DHS inspector general

Some illegal immigrants were kept in small metal cages for up to two hours while being detained at "Alligator Alcatraz," according to a federal inspector general's report on Monday.

September 14, 2026

Another judge blocks Trump’s plans to use post office to police mailed ballots

President Trump's attempt to rope the U.S. Postal Service into policing which ballots can and can't be mailed suffered another setback after a second federal judge issued a ruling halting the idea.

September 14, 2026

Anti-ICE rioter caught on video hurling rocks at agents gets 3-year prison sentence

The California man who was captured on video last year while hurling large rocks at immigration officers during the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles was slapped with three years in prison.

September 12, 2026

Judge boots Trump ‘loyalty’ question from civil service job applications

A federal judge issued a stay forbidding the administration from asking those seeking jobs in the federal government to say how they would help carry out presidential executive orders, in what had been seen as a test of "loyalty" to President Trump.

September 12, 2026

Supreme Court erases major immigration detention case from its docket

The Supreme Court has dismissed a significant immigration detention case after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pardoned the key migrant, making him no longer deportable.

September 12, 2026

Skid row scam: Fraudsters used homeless to pose as valid voters for California referendum drive

Federal prosecutors have charged three California residents for allegedly scamming the state's referendum system by paying homeless people to pose as other voters, then sign petitions to try to get measures on the ballot.

September 11, 2026

DOJ boots Afghan woman in first Alien Terrorist Court deportation

The Trump administration said it has successfully used the Alien Terrorist Removal Court to secure the deportation of an Afghan whose relatives plotted an attack to disrupt the 2024 election.

September 11, 2026

Appeals court maintains blockade on Trump’s plan to use post office to police mailed ballots

A federal appeals court refused to revive President Trump's scheme to have the U.S. Postal Service oversee mail-in voting and refuse to deliver ballots it deems invalid, ruling Thursday that the federal government didn't make a convincing case for why it should move forward.

September 10, 2026

Supreme Court rejects latest bid to use pro-GOP congressional map in Missouri

The Supreme Court swatted away yet another attempt on Thursday to force Missouri to use a Republican-slanted map for this year's congressional elections, leaving the state to return to the old map used in 2024.

September 10, 2026

The FBI says 16 shooters were stopped by civilians. One researcher counts 225

The FBI's active-shooter database routinely misses cases where an armed civilian stops an active-shooter attack, according to a new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center.

September 10, 2026

Trump team aims to drop race, sexual orientation, illegal immigrants from census

The Trump administration proposed major changes Wednesday to the decennial census, calling for the elimination of questions on race, ethnicity and sexual orientation, which it said would bring the questionnaire more in line with the census' original purpose.

September 9, 2026

Feds move to shut down Chinese cyberscam factory

The federal government has seized a Chinese-run online scammers' marketplace, blocked more than $50 million in laundered cryptocurrency, slapped sanctions on the operators and sent a strike force to Madagascar to help close 13 scam compounds.

September 9, 2026

America backslides on Sept. 11’s hard lessons about IDs, intel agencies and ports of entry

A quarter-century after 9/11, the consensus around securing IDs is fraying, and the same is true for other security lessons from the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.

September 9, 2026

Supreme Court won’t revive Missouri’s GOP-friendly congressional map

Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh on Tuesday rejected Missouri's request to restore its Republican-tilted congressional map for this year's elections.

September 8, 2026

DHS asks Supreme Court to revive database to screen out noncitizen voters

The Department of Homeland Security rushed to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking permission to restart a system that states were using to check their voter rolls to identify potential noncitizens who registered to vote.

September 8, 2026

Appeals court rules IRS broke privacy laws in turning over records to ICE

The IRS broke a Watergate-era privacy law when it gave information on 47,000 people to ICE for use in immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

September 8, 2026