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Articles by Stephen Dinan

Elon Musk speaks during an event in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (Photo/Alex Brandon)

Musk doesn’t run DOGE, White House says

Elon Musk doesn't have independent powers to fire anyone from federal agencies, the Justice Department has told a federal judge, shooting down some of critics' more fantastical theories about the head of President Trump's effort to remake the bureaucracy.

February 18, 2025
A Department of Homeland Security helicopter flies over the El Paso VA and Beaumont Army Medical Center campus during the search for a gunman in El Paso, Texas on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/The El Paso Times, Victor Calzada) **FILE**

Laser from Mexico targets DHS helicopter

Someone on the Mexican side of the border aimed a laser at a Homeland Security helicopter that was patrolling along the boundary this month, the U.S. government said Tuesday.

February 18, 2025
President Donald Trump points to a reporter and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump DOJ fires 20 Biden immigration judges

The Trump administration has canned 20 "midnight" immigration judges the Biden administration tried to shoehorn onto the courts in its final days, The Washington Times has learned.

February 15, 2025
The federal civilian workforce is 2.28 million strong. Some 228,000 of those are never required to show up. Another 1.1 million have jobs that are eligible to do remote work, and nearly all of them take advantage of it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Telework employees claimed extra pay, ducked drug tests

Transportation Department employees were bilking the government for extra pay by claiming to work in high-cost cities but actually teleworking from cheaper locations, according to a new federal investigation released Wednesday.

February 12, 2025
The logo for the Justice Department is seen before a news conference at the Department of Justice, Aug. 23, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Venezuelan migrants forced illegal immigrants into prostitution

An illegal immigrant mother and her son ran a sex trafficking operation out of Tennessee, recruiting poor young Venezuelan women, paying to smuggle them into the U.S., and then forcing them into prostitution once here, federal prosecutors said.

February 12, 2025