Stephen Dinan

Truckers file lawsuit to carry guns across state lines

Two truckers have filed a lawsuit challenging Minnesota's gun laws, saying the state won't let them carry their firearms as they drive its roads, even though they're legally licensed to publicly carry their weapons in their home states.

January 8, 2025

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announces bill to rename ‘Gulf of Mexico’ as ‘Gulf of America’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Tuesday she is writing legislation to officially rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, as she moves to carry out one of President-elect Donald Trump's latest territorial ideas.

January 7, 2025

House passes Laken Riley Act to deport illegal immigrants who commit lower-level crimes

The House on Tuesday took the first steps toward President-elect Donald Trump's promised immigration crackdown, passing a bill that would press Homeland Security to detain and deport illegal immigrants arrested for even minor theft crimes such as shoplifting.

January 7, 2025

Republicans tee up fast votes on Laken Riley Act to deport illegal immigrants who steal, shoplift

Congressional Republicans are speeding their first immigration crackdown bill through Congress with an initial vote scheduled later this week on the Laken Riley Act, which would pressure Homeland Security to detain and deport illegal immigrants who shoplift or steal.

January 7, 2025

Merrick Garland defends aggressiveness of Jan. 6 prosecutions ahead of Trump’s promised pardons

Attorney General Merrick Garland praised the FBI and his Justice Department prosecutors on Monday as heroes for their zealous pursuit of those who stormed the Capitol four years ago, and said the cases they are building against the participants are a defense of democracy.

January 6, 2025

How the House GOP upended Democrats’ Jan. 6 narrative

Four years after the day of the fateful attack on the U.S. Capitol -- and two years after congressional Democrats' investigation laid blame largely at Donald Trump's feet -- that narrative has been severely altered thanks to a two-year GOP probe that has rewritten the script.

January 5, 2025

Sanctuary cities pledge showdown with Trump; defiance stronger than in first term

In President-elect Donald Trump's first term, Democrat-led sanctuary cities refused to help with deportations. This time around, they're pondering a more active resistance.

January 2, 2025

The politics of creating — or killing — a government website

If the government can't even cut its digital footprint, how can it be expected to cut something important -- like the budget?

January 1, 2025

For Uncle Sam, Buy American mandate comes with a cost — $130,000 per job

Among the few things Democrats and Republicans in Washington agree on is the need to buy American with taxpayers' dollars. But that consensus does not extend among economists, who say there are real costs to the idea.

January 1, 2025

Drug cartels now Mexico’s 5th-largest employer

Some 175,000 people now actively work for Mexico's smuggling cartels, according to a shocking new estimate that would make them the country's fifth-largest private employer.

December 31, 2024

Fraudsters go free unless Congress acts; expiration nears for pursuing ill-gotten pandemic relief

The coronavirus pandemic began five years ago -- which means the first round of fraudsters is about to get away with their crimes.

December 30, 2024

Biden administration says it’s done selling off border wall materials — for now

The Biden administration told a federal judge Friday that it's done selling off border wall materials for now and won't get rid of anything else until President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

December 27, 2024

America’s new IT consultant: Musk slams outdated tech plaguing federal government

The IRS receives 375,000 pieces of mail a day during its busy filing season, so when the letter-opening machines in the agency's Kansas City facility got too old to use, it was a big deal.

December 25, 2024

Google lets you review members of Congress, and the appraisals are brutal

Take the average American voter, combine that with an Amazon product review-style forum where five stars max means the best, and you get Google's reviews of the members of Congress. Some are useful, some are rants, and some are pretty funny.

December 24, 2024

Trump resisters urged to stay in government — if they can stomach it

Anti-Trump federal government lawyers are being begged to "ride it out" in the new administration, with activists encouraging them to act as a bulwark against the incoming president's policies and actions.

December 23, 2024

Trump asks court to stop sell-off of materials needed for wall construction

The battle over the border wall is heating up as the Biden administration sells off materials, seemingly defying the plans of President-elect Donald Trump, who has asked a federal court for an "immediate stop" to the sales to ensure he can restart building the wall next year.

December 22, 2024

Immigrant student at George Mason University charged with plotting mass attack

An Egyptian man who was a student at George Mason University has been accused of plotting a terror attack against Israel's consulate at the U.N. in New York.

December 20, 2024

Fed workers secretly cheering for shutdown, hoping for extra vacation

Some federal workers are "secretly hoping" for a government shutdown in the coming weeks, figuring it will earn them extra time off.

December 20, 2024

7.6 million known illegal immigrants at large in U.S.; number doubled under Biden

Homeland Security is supposed to be tracking more than 7.6 million illegal immigrants who have been caught and released into the country over the years, according to the latest numbers that show a department struggling to monitor them all, much less make new arrests inside the country.

December 20, 2024

‘Just tell the truth’: Nation’s sheriffs blast Biden over drone ‘stonewalling’

The National Sheriffs' Association spanked the Biden administration Thursday for a lack of candor about the drones spotted in New Jersey and surrounding states, saying federal officials have been giving local cops a stiff-arm.

December 19, 2024