Stephen Dinan

‘Unusual secrecy’: Judge orders DOGE to comply with open-record laws

President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency is bound by federal open-records laws, a federal judge decided Monday.

March 10, 2025

Fraudster gets 17 years after bribing doctors in federal workers’ comp prescription drug scheme

A federal workers' compensation program paid $16,000 for a prescription drug that cost about $15 to the pharmacy, prosecutors said Monday.

March 10, 2025

Longtime illegal immigrant accused of voting under stolen identity in Maryland

An illegal immigrant who lived in the U.S. under a fraudulent identity for nearly four decades managed to vote in two presidential elections as well as collect Social Security benefits, federal prosecutors said.

March 10, 2025

Homeland Security reveals self-deportation app

The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday a new mobile phone app designed to help illegal immigrants self-deport.

March 10, 2025

Biden migrant surge pushed illegal immigrant population to nearly 19 million, study finds

Some 18.6 million illegal immigrants now call the U.S. their home, according to a new study by an immigration control group that says the numbers soared under former President Joseph R. Biden.

March 10, 2025

Justice Department compares Elon Musk to Hillary Clinton and Karl Rove

The Department of Justice says Elon Musk exercises the same sort of power in the Trump administration that first lady Hillary Clinton did for her husband or political strategist Karl Rove did for President George W. Bush.

March 10, 2025

Kristi Noem names new leaders at ICE in bid to boost deportation numbers

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem named two new leaders at the government's deportation agency on Sunday.

March 9, 2025

Federal appeals court tosses conviction of woman who has spent 27 years on death row

A federal appeals court has erased the capital murder conviction of a Texas woman who has spent the past 27 years on death row, saying her trial was tainted because of information prosecutors hid.

March 7, 2025

AOC’s immigrant ‘education’ puts sexual predators on the street, says White House border czar

White House border czar Tom Homan upped his feud with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying her know-your-rights seminar for illegal immigrants will end up shielding serious criminals.

March 7, 2025

Feds cancel $400 million in funding for Columbia University over antisemitism concerns

The Trump administration said it has canceled $400 million worth of taxpayer grants and contracts for Columbia University, saying the Ivy League school hasn't done enough to protect its Jewish students.

March 7, 2025

FEMA fires 3 workers tied to anti-Trump discrimination

FEMA has fired three more employees it says were implicated in last year's "reprehensible" situation where emergency workers refused to visit Florida homes that displayed Trump campaign signs.

March 7, 2025

Union busting: DHS cancels TSA agents’ collective bargaining

Homeland Security canceled the Transportation Security Administration agents' collective bargaining agreement, saying the labor union has become too big of a problem.

March 7, 2025

NIH ‘transgender’ animal testing experiments more extensive than Trump said

New numbers from the White Coat Waste Project, shared with The Washington Times, show that the National Institutes of Health is currently funding at least 26 projects, totaling $64 million, to manipulate animals' sex organs and sex preferences -- all with the hope of benefiting the transgender community.

March 7, 2025

‘Power grab’: Judge lectures Trump over firing of labor board member

A federal judge unloaded on President Trump in a ruling Thursday calling his firing of a member of the National Labor Relations Board a "power grab," "flat wrong" and "a blatant violation of the law."

March 6, 2025

Trump seeks to make his challengers pay to stop him in court

President Trump moved Thursday to cut down on the tsunami of legal challenges filed against him so far by ordering his government to demand challengers put up collateral if they want to sue.

March 6, 2025

Special counsel resigns, removing roadblock to Trump firings

Special counsel Hampton Dellinger resigned his post on Thursday, removing himself as a hurdle to President Trump's plans to fire thousands of federal employees.

March 6, 2025

Activists fume after GOP calls Democratic lawmaker an ‘illegal immigrant’

Democrats demanded apologies from top Republicans this week after the House GOP's campaign arm labeled a member of Congress an "illegal immigrant."

March 6, 2025

Nobody’s buying Hunter Biden’s art anymore, and he even lost his home

Hunter Biden has fallen on tough financial times amid his legal woes and his father's departure from the White House.

March 6, 2025

Judge rules Trump’s broad spending pause violates Constitution

A federal judge declared Thursday that President Trump's attempt to pause potentially trillions of dollars in government grants and contracts violates the Constitution and cannot proceed.

March 6, 2025

Appeals court allows Trump to fire watchdog who delayed other terminations

A federal appeals court gave President Trump at least a short-term victory Wednesday in allowing him to oust a government watchdog who has emerged as a chief hurdle to his plans to remake the federal bureaucracy.

March 5, 2025