Stephen Dinan

Supreme Court to hear challenge to transgender athletes in girls sports

The Supreme Court announced Thursday it would hear two disputes over state laws banning transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports, giving the justices a headlining issue for their next term that opens in the fall.

July 3, 2025

Judge strikes down Trump policies that deleted transgender pages from govt. websites

A federal judge has ruled that the White House budget office didn't have the power to order agencies to take down web pages that included information about transgender issues.

July 3, 2025

Judge denies release request by family of suspect in Colorado antisemitic attack

A federal judge declined Wednesday to order the release of the family of the man accused of the attack on a pro-Israel march in Colorado earlier this year.

July 2, 2025

In a bid to reduce animal experiments, EPA offers fish, rats for adoption

The Environmental Protection Agency is putting some of its testing animals up for adoption, taking the first concrete steps toward its goal of phasing out taxpayer-funded animal experiments.

July 2, 2025

Judge rules Trump’s asylum ban illegal

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Trump's attempt to bar most unauthorized immigrants from making asylum claims at the southern border is illegal -- a decision that could blow a hole in the administration's border policies.

July 2, 2025

Trump takes battle over fired safety officials to Supreme Court

The administration has asked the Supreme Court to step in and rule that President Trump can carry out his attempt to fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, saying a lower court's injunction is preventing him from having his team in place.

July 2, 2025

Trump shatters more border records with lowest illegal immigration numbers

President Trump has broken his own record for border success, with the Department of Homeland Security reporting historically low numbers of unauthorized migrants trying to get into the U.S. in June.

July 2, 2025

Judge accuses lawyer of fabricating case citation in anti-Trump lawsuit

A federal judge issued a "show cause" order Tuesday demanding to know why a lawyer in a lawsuit against the Trump administration submitted a brief citing a case that doesn't appear to actually exist.

July 2, 2025

Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to shut down African Development Foundation

A federal judge shot down President Trump's attempt to curtail the U.S. African Development Foundation, ruling Tuesday that the move likely went beyond his executive powers.

July 1, 2025

Judge blocks DHS decision to revoke deportation amnesty for Haitians

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Homeland Security from terminating a long-standing deportation amnesty for Haitian migrants, ruling that Secretary Kristi Noem acted in defiance of the law.

July 1, 2025

Appeals court backs Trump on firing members of government’s privacy board

A federal appeals court gave President Trump tentative approval Tuesday to move ahead with firing members of a watchdog privacy board, saying a president shouldn't be saddled with underlings he doesn't want.

July 1, 2025

Trump hints at investigating former DHS Secretary Mayorkas

President Trump on Tuesday directed his people to take a look at investigating former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border chaos of the past four years.

July 1, 2025

Homeland Security Secretary Noem says migrant cannibal ‘started to eat himself’

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said an illegal immigrant cannibal who was being deported suddenly "started to eat himself."

July 1, 2025

Trump, DeSantis open Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to hold 5,000 migrants

President Obama, visiting the southern border in 2011, joked that Republicans were so hardcore they would demand to use alligators to deter illegal immigrants.

July 1, 2025

WATCH: Trump threatens to sic DOGE on Musk

President Trump threatened Tuesday to sic the Department of Government Efficiency on its former leader, Elon Musk, after the billionaire businessman denounced Mr. Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" tax cut and spending package.

July 1, 2025

Trump offers advice to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrants: ‘Don’t run in a straight line’

President Trump joked Tuesday that the Department of Homeland Security will have to teach detainees how to avoid scaly reptiles, as he left the White House to visit Florida's new "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant detention facility.

July 1, 2025

Maryland’s sanctuary law could prevent Abrego Garcia’s return

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers are trying to get a federal judge to order his return to Maryland, but that state's sanctuary laws might prevent that from happening.

July 1, 2025

Trump tariffs have earned $81.5 billion in new money, DHS says

The Department of Homeland Security has collected more than $106 billion in tariff revenue since President Trump took office, and most of that -- $81.5 billion -- is directly tied to the new levies the president has imposed on worldwide goods.

June 30, 2025

WATCH - Operation Gold Rush: Justice Dept. announces largest health care fraud takedown ever

Russian-led scammers bought out legitimate U.S. medical companies, stole the identities of more than one million Americans and submitted $10.6 billion in bogus claims under their names, federal authorities revealed Monday in announcing what they called the largest medical fraud takedown in American history.

June 30, 2025

Trump’s Justice Dept. sues Los Angeles over sanctuary city policy

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to dismantle Los Angeles' sanctuary policies, saying the city specifically rewrote its laws late last year to try to thwart President Trump's mass deportation plans.

June 30, 2025