Stephen Dinan

For the first time in office, Trump doesn’t face the threat of impeachment

President Trump's political opponents have called him cruel and authoritarian and dictatorial. They've accused him of rewriting the Constitution and trampling on basic rules of government. But one thing that's been missing in all the early vitriol over his first 10 days is the I-word.

January 29, 2025

Comer launches bid to rightsize government, brings Iowa model to federal reform push

House Oversight Chairman James Comer will hold a hearing next week to explore how the federal government got so big, as he moves to add some legislative heft to President Trump's goal of slashing the bureaucracy down to size.

January 29, 2025

Trump’s spending pause? Biden did it first

President Trump's decision to hit pause on billions of dollars in federal spending spawned an avalanche of complaints from his opponents on Tuesday.

January 28, 2025

Noem says Homeland Security Dept. is Trump’s No. 1 priority

New Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged her employees Tuesday to be a "beacon of freedom."

January 28, 2025

Quakers sue to stop ICE arrests, say churches must be sanctuaries

Several Quaker groups have filed a lawsuit against Homeland Security, demanding it restore a sanctuary policy that largely prevented immigration agents from making arrests at or near churches. The Quakers say the latest moves trample on their First Amendment rights.

January 28, 2025

ICE arrests pass 4,500 since Trump took office

Homeland Security's deportation force made nearly 1,000 more arrests Monday and has now apprehended more than 4,500 illegal immigrants since President Trump took the reins of government.

January 28, 2025

ICE arrests nearly 1,200 on Sunday including 67 Tren de Aragua gang members

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tallied nearly 1,200 arrests on Sunday, including 67 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, marking the biggest roundup yet under President Trump.

January 27, 2025

House opens investigation into four sanctuary cities

House Oversight Chairman James Comer announced probes Monday into four sanctuary cities, calling on them to come before Congress and defend themselves.

January 27, 2025

D.C.’s new U.S. attorney launches review of Jan. 6 obstruction charge shot down by Supreme Court

President Trump's new U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., announced an investigation Monday into how the office used a now-discredited law to go after Jan. 6 defendants.

January 27, 2025

D.C. judges rail over Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons; Tanya Chutkan calls it a ‘whitewash’

President Trump may have pardoned the Jan. 6 defendants but some of the Democrat-appointed judges who presided over the cases are furious at having to let them go.

January 27, 2025

Illegal immigrant forced to drink his urine to stay alive in desert

A Chinese migrant lost in the Arizona desert said he was forced to abandon his brother and to drink his own urine to survive.

January 27, 2025

ICE sweeps up record number of illegals; military support, diplomatic clashes mark Trump’s 1st week

President Trump's shock and awe strategy has fueled a surge in immigration arrests in the interior of the country.

January 26, 2025

J.D. Vance scolds U.S. Catholic bishops after criticism of Trump on immigration

Vice President J.D. Vance, a practicing Catholic, said that he was "heartbroken" by what he called unfair criticism by America's Catholic bishops of the Trump administration's early moves to crack down on illegal immigration.

January 26, 2025

Trump administration deletes Jan. 6 data from federal websites

The Trump administration is cleansing federal websites of data about the Jan. 6 cases.

January 26, 2025

ICE arrested 10 Tren de Aragua gang members, more than 400 criminals in one day

Homeland Security arrested 25 gang members Friday, including 10 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, as well as more than 400 other illegal immigrants with criminal records.

January 25, 2025

Noem confirmed as Trump’s DHS secretary

The Senate on Saturday voted for Kristi Noem to become President Trump's Homeland Security secretary, giving him a loyal lieutenant at the helm of the department that will carry out his border and immigration plans.

January 25, 2025

ICE arrests more than 1,000 illegal immigrants over two days

Homeland Security's deportation agency said that it arrested 593 more illegal immigrants on Friday, putting its two-day total above 1,000.

January 25, 2025

Woman charged in shooting that killed a Border Patrol agent

Federal prosecutors announced Friday that they have charged Teresa Youngblut with assault with a firearm in a shooting that killed a Border Patrol agent earlier in the week in Vermont.

January 24, 2025

Supreme Court to hear case on religious charter schools

The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a pair of cases challenging whether states can ban religious schools from taking part in their taxpayer-funded charter school programs.

January 24, 2025

‘You’re fired!’: Trump 2.0 ditches first-term caution for instant action

In his first go-around, it took President Trump 10 days to make his first major firing. This time it started on Day 1. And it's kept going.

January 24, 2025