Skip to content

Listen Now

Threat Status podcast: Inside the Army’s advanced manufacturing revolution

TRENDING:
Donald Trump
Advertisement

Articles by Stephen Dinan

Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calls on Congress to end the trade embargo the U.S. has imposed against Cuba since 1962 during a campaign stop at Florida International University in Miami on July 31, 2015. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton email release falls well short of judge’s order

The State Department admitted it was violating a judge's order Friday in releasing only 1,356 new emails from former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's time in the administration, with officials saying they're falling behind because they are having to run all of the documents by intelligence agencies to make sure classified documents aren't being released.

July 31, 2015
This undated booking photo provided by the Park County, Wyoming, Sheriff’s Office shows Jesus Deniz Mendoza (A.K.A Jesus Deniz), age 18 of Worland, Wyo. suspected of shooting a family in Montana. The FBI confirmed two people were killed and a third injured Wednesday, July 29, near the town of Pryor on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation. (Park County, Wyoming, Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Jesus Deniz Mendoza, Mexican accused of double murder, was legal immigrant

The man accused of killing two Good Samaritans who tried to help him on a Montana roadside was encountered by immigration authorities earlier this year after a burglary arrest, but was unable to be deported because he had already gotten legal status, federal authorities said this week.

July 31, 2015
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks July 24, 2015, at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business in New York. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Hillary Clinton emails released by State Department

The Obama administration slapped a secret designation Friday on a number of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails from her time as secretary of state, raising more questions about whether her controversial email arrangement led to classified information being left unsecured.

July 31, 2015
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 9, 2015. (Associated Press)

Nancy Pelosi on Iran deal opponents: ‘Have they even read it?’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wondered Thursday whether opponents of President Obama's Iran nuclear program agreement read the deal before coming out in opposition to it, and said she's certain she can keep enough Democrats in line to sustain an Obama veto and preserve his policy.

July 30, 2015
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Hispanic rights groups protest fed plan to revoke amnesties

Hispanic rights advocates are protesting the government's plans to revoke amnesties for potentially hundreds of illegal immigrants who refuse to return their erroneous three-year work permits, saying that the illegal immigrants shouldn't be punished for the Obama administration's mistake.

July 26, 2015
A group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in Granjeno, Texas, June 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) ** FILE **

Judge rules illegal immigrant parents with children should be released

A federal judge's ruling presaging the release of the largest number of illegal immigrant mothers and children from U.S. detention centers has erased the last get-tough immigration policy of the Obama administration, leaving the law even more of a mess and authorities with even fewer tools to try to deter another surge of border crossers.

July 25, 2015
Demonstrators, led by the New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice and the Congress of Day Laborers, participate in a rally outside the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on April 17, 2015. A three-judge panel began hearing arguments whether to lift a temporary hold imposed by a federal judge in Texas on President Barack Obama's executive action seeking to shield millions of immigrants from deportation. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama shields 9M illegals from deportation

President Obama's executive actions on immigration shield more than 80 percent of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country from any danger of being deported, a top immigration think tank reported Thursday.

July 23, 2015
In this Wednesday, June 18, 2014, file photo, two young girls watch a World Cup soccer match on a television from their holding area where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool, File)

Feds leave illegal immigrant children in lurch: Report

The federal government doesn't follow up with the vast majority of the illegal immigrant Central American children it caught at the border and released into communities over the last two years, leaving them to uncertain care and potential abuse in their new homes, according to a new report Thursday from the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.

July 23, 2015
Flowers and a candle lay on the ground following a vigil for Kathryn Steinle, Monday, July 6, 2015, on Pier 14 in San Francisco. Steinle was gunned down while out for an evening stroll at Pier 14 with her father and a family friend on Wednesday, July 1. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach)

San Francisco moves to cancel sanctuary policy

San Francisco moved this week to try to cancel its sanctuary policy that protected an illegal immigrant murder suspect, but Congress pressed ahead nonetheless with legislation aimed at punishing the California city and any others who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

July 22, 2015
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (center) and State Department Chief of Staff Jon Finer (left) meet with members of the U.S. delegation at the garden of the Palais Coburg hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held in Vienna on July 10, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

John Kerry’s chief of staff compelled to testify on Benghazi

Secretary of State John Kerry's right-hand man has been called to Congress to testify about the slow pace of information being released to the congressional committee probing the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, the probe's chairman announced Wednesday.

July 22, 2015