Stephen Dinan

Appeals court allows Trump to strip union rights from USAID, State Dept. employees

A federal appeals court has given temporary approval for President Trump to strip collective bargaining rights from employees at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, saying the law grants the White House wide latitude.

June 20, 2025

Appeals court revives challenge to D.C.’s noncitizen voting law

A federal appeals court revived a challenge to Washington's law that lets noncitizens cast ballots, saying a lower court was too hasty in dismissing the case.

June 20, 2025

Supreme Court expands opportunity for businesses to challenge fed agency decisions

The Supreme Court, in a pair of decisions Friday, said businesses affected by government action from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration have the right to challenge those agency decisions in court.

June 20, 2025

Supreme Court rules terror victims can sue Palestinian groups

The Constitution doesn't bar American plaintiffs from suing the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority for damages stemming from terrorist attacks, the Supreme Court ruled Friday.

June 20, 2025

Trump OK sending National Guard, rules appeals court

President Trump appears to have been on solid legal ground when he federalized and deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles, an appeals court ruled late Thursday, giving the White House permission to keep the troops in place -- for now.

June 20, 2025

Los Angeles Dodgers refuse to let ICE use stadium as base of operations

The Los Angeles Dodgers blocked ICE agents from using their stadium parking lot as a staging area for enforcement operations Thursday.

June 19, 2025

Homan warns sanctuary jurisdictions, denies enforcement pause

White House border czar Tom Homan sought to bring some clarity to President Trump's immigration enforcement policy, telling reporters Thursday that ICE will still do worksite enforcement but has been told to focus on cases where migrants are part of a broader criminal scheme.

June 19, 2025

Feds unearth cartel’s sophisticated 2,900-foot border tunnel in California

The Border Patrol uncovered what it called a sophisticated smuggling tunnel stretching more than half a mile between Mexico and the U.S.

June 19, 2025

Trump effect: Study finds 1 million illegal immigrants have left U.S. since January

President Trump has not only stopped but reversed the Biden border surge, according to early Census Bureau data that suggests hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants have dropped out of the workforce and departed the country.

June 19, 2025

ICE adopts new visitors policy after clash with Democratic members of Congress

ICE has adopted a new visitor policy that imposes new limits on members of Congress who want to visit, blocking them entirely from field offices and limiting their access to detention facilities when there are "exigent circumstances."

June 18, 2025

Social Security, Medicare insolvency dates move up to 2033

The main trust funds for Social Security and Medicare will both run out of money in 2033 and the government at that point will have to slash benefit payments, the programs' trustees said Wednesday in the latest warning on the country's largest social welfare safety net.

June 18, 2025

Supreme Court rules Texas can’t challenge private license to store nuclear waste in West Texas

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a private company can restart plans to store spent nuclear waste from across the country at a location near West Texas.

June 18, 2025

Supreme Court upholds state law banning transgender treatments for minors

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law barring transgender treatments for minors, saying that laws involving transgender people don't automatically trigger the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause.

June 18, 2025

DHS Secretary Noem taken to hospital for allergic reaction

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was taken to a hospital in Washington on Tuesday for an allergic reaction, the department said.

June 17, 2025

Appeals court receptive to Trump’s L.A. troop deployment

Federal appeals court judges seemed inclined to bless President Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard to quell unrest in Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, suggesting that the administration is on solid legal ground.

June 17, 2025

Democrats’ defiance of ICE grows after New York mayoral candidate arrested

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a mayoral candidate, was arrested by federal agents Tuesday as he tried to protect a migrant from arrest by federal agents, refusing to back away and demanding to see a warrant. Mr. Lander is the latest prominent Democrat to tussle with Homeland Security.

June 17, 2025

NYC mayoral candidate Lander arrested while trying to protect migrant

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, a candidate for mayor, was arrested by federal agents Tuesday as he accompanied a migrant from an immigration court hearing and raised objections when officers moved in to arrest the man.

June 17, 2025

Texas identifies 33 potential noncitizen votes in 2024 election

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened investigations into 33 people he says voted in the 2024 election even though they may be noncitizens.

June 17, 2025

Trump upends ‘mass deportation’ order, tells ICE to go easy on ‘heartland’

President Trump has issued new orders to his deportation force, telling ICE he wants them to give the "heartland" a break while concentrating on cities as they move to carry out his demand for mass deportations.

June 16, 2025

Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to restore $400M in grant funding to Columbia University

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday brought by university professors and the American Federation of Teachers trying to get the administration to restore $400 million in federal grant money to Columbia University. The judge said the case was ill-conceived.

June 16, 2025