Stephen Dinan

Trump names hard-charging Border Patrol agent, deportation officer to top immigration posts

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday picked two men with deep immigration-enforcement experience as his nominees to run the two key enforcement agencies that handle the border and deportations.

December 5, 2024

Trump-proofing: Biden officials strike deals, spend taxpayer money before Trump can stop it

President Biden's breathtakingly broad pardon of his son's criminal behavior is just one example of the Biden administration taking steps to try to block potential action from the future president in what analysts say is an attempt to "Trump-proof" government.

December 5, 2024

‘Like being on vacation’: Federal employees are abusing remote work, senator’s audit finds

Telework has become a bit of a Feds-gone-wild situation under President Biden, according to a new Senate report that says government workers have been caught taking bubble baths, drinking and driving or getting medical treatment -- all while they were supposed to be on the clock.hir

December 5, 2024

Justice Department expands firearms background checks to include gun dealer employees

Licensed gun dealers would be able to run their employees through the government's background check system under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Wednesday.

December 4, 2024

GOP accuses Biden’s citizenship director of ‘dereliction of duty’

Congressional Republicans lashed out at a top Homeland Security official Wednesday for her inability to answer questions about what sort of illegal immigrants her agency has helped enter the country.

December 4, 2024

Manchin delivers bipartisan warning to senators in farewell speech

Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin III on Tuesday recalled his arrival in Washington 14 years ago as a new senator from West Virginia, where he was greeted by Democratic leader Harry Reid with a request to start raising money for Democrats to campaign against his new Republican colleagues.

December 3, 2024

Mitch McConnell calls on anti-Trump judges to recuse themselves from some cases

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell blasted two federal judges who revoked their pending retirements after President-elect Donald Trump's victory, saying they have exposed their political bias and should recuse themselves from some cases.

December 3, 2024

Hunter Biden’s sweeping pardon covers a decade of potential criminal charges

President Biden became the latest to expand the limits of presidential powers with his breathtakingly broad pardon of his son Hunter, covering all federal crimes he may have committed over a decade.

December 2, 2024

Appeals court blasts sanctuary policy that blocked ICE from using airport

The administration has won a significant legal victory over a sanctuary jurisdiction after a federal appeals court ruled against a Seattle-area policy that barred Homeland Security from using local airports to detain and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.

December 2, 2024

Congressional probe determines COVID-19 ‘most likely’ leaked from Chinese lab

The coronavirus that killed millions of people "most likely" leaked from a Chinese lab where researchers were intentionally manipulating the virus, a two-year congressional investigation concluded Monday.

December 2, 2024

Musk, Ramaswamy’s DOGE could break stalemate in Beltway spending

President-elect Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency have given new hope to spending cutters on Capitol Hill.

December 1, 2024

DHS deportation officer arrested migrant as a favor to fraudster, say federal prosecutors

A Homeland Security deportation officer arrested a migrant to try to deport him to prevent exposure of a $10 million bank fraud scheme, federal prosecutors charged.

November 28, 2024

Biden battles to build legacy as Democrats tear him down, hold him liable for Trump’s return

President Biden is on a two-month sprint to try to define his place in history, but he's suddenly facing a hurdle from members of his own party who say his biggest legacy is delivering President-elect Donald Trump back into the White House.

November 28, 2024

Texas has right to build razor wire border wall, appeals court rules

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Biden administration overstepped when it tried to dismantle Texas' razor-wire border fence.

November 27, 2024

Immigrants rush to burrow into the U.S. before Trump’s inauguration

Inauguration Day is shaping up to be an unofficial deadline for immigrants who are rushing to beat what they fear will be a draconian Trump crackdown.

November 27, 2024

Incoming border czar Tom Homan to sanctuary cities: ‘Don’t test us’

Incoming border czar Tom Homan delivered a new stern warning to sanctuary cities Tuesday and proclaimed Texas a model for how the rest of the country should approach border enforcement.

November 26, 2024

Vote count: Trump scored GOP’s biggest win in 36 years, Democrats bailed on Harris

Ballots are still being tallied in some slow-counting states three weeks after Election Day, but the size and scope of President-elect Donald Trump's victory are firming up in what analysts called a decisive, but not overwhelming, victory for the GOP.

November 26, 2024

GOP ponders second Mayorkas impeachment to block him from future office

Republican staffers on Capitol Hill are discussing a second impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as a way of blocking him from holding office in the future, The Washington Times has learned.

November 25, 2024

USAID paid for meals that went to Syrian terrorists

American taxpayers paid for hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria, federal prosecutors revealed in announcing charges against the NGO employee they say was responsible for it.

November 22, 2024

Americans warming to Trump; Pew survey says voters shifting to GOP, away from Democrats

Americans are warmer to President-elect Donald Trump now than they were in 2016 and 2020, according to a new poll that found they believe he'll steer the economy correctly as he takes office.

November 22, 2024