Stephen Dinan

Supreme Court to consider role of race in drawing Louisiana’s congressional districts

The Supreme Court said Monday it will take up cases challenging Louisiana's congressional districts, two of which were drawn to give Black voters primary political power in picking who wins those seats.

November 4, 2024

Biden’s lenient ‘catch-and-release’ parole programs and vetting failures spurred migrant crime wave

That illegal immigrants are committing crimes is nothing new, but many experts say there's something different about the last 3 1/2 years, in both the number and intensity of the crimes the country is seeing.

November 4, 2024

House GOP launches probe after FBI ‘quietly’ changed crime data

The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday demanded the FBI explain why it released crime data last year that seemed to back up President Biden's claims that violent crime had dropped, only to "quietly" revise the numbers this year.

October 31, 2024

Dead but not forgotten: States grapple with early voters who die before Election Day

More than 60 million voters have cast ballots in the election so far. And it's a grim reality that some of them have already died.

October 31, 2024

Supreme Court allows Virginia to remove suspected noncitizens from voter rolls

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to remove some 1,600 names of suspected noncitizens from its voter rolls ahead of next week's election.

October 30, 2024

Biden administration says Virginia can remove noncitizens from voter rolls — after election

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold lower court rulings ordering Virginia to immediately restore 1,600 names to its voter rolls, but saying the state can remove them once the election is done.

October 29, 2024

Noncitizens are on the voter rolls — nobody knows how many

Alabama made a big splash this summer when Secretary of State Wes Allen announced he'd found 3,251 names on his state's voter rolls that he suspected of being illegal immigrants and had them moved to the inactive voter list. But things quickly began to unravel.

October 29, 2024

Eight states to vote on noncitizen voter bans

Election integrity groups have put citizen-only measures on the ballots in eight states this year.

October 29, 2024

Arson attack destroys hundreds of ballots at early-voting drop box in Washington, Oregon

Drop-off ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set afire early Monday, burning up already-cast ballots and sparking new worries over election integrity.

October 28, 2024

Federal official warns New York policies let dangerous criminals roam free

A top Homeland Security deportation official blasted New York for refusing to cooperate with a request to hold illegal immigrants for pickup, saying the city ended up releasing an accused sex trafficker back onto the streets.

October 28, 2024

Oddsmakers betting big on Trump a week from election

While opinion polls in the 2024 election are just now starting to swing toward Donald Trump, the online political gambling markets have been betting big on the former president for weeks.

October 28, 2024

Virginia asks Supreme Court for permission to remove suspected noncitizens from voter rolls

Virginia begged the Supreme Court on Monday to step in and allow the state to carry out its removal of 1,600 names of suspected noncitizens from its voting rolls.

October 28, 2024

Judges shoot down Youngkin’s attempt to cleanse Virginia’s voter rolls

Federal judges have ordered Virginia to restore roughly 1,600 names to voting rolls, shooting down Gov. Glenn Youngkin's attempt to cleanse the lists of people the state believes to be ineligible noncitizens.

October 27, 2024

Pennsylvania county flags 2,500 voter registrations as potentially fraudulent

Officials in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, identified thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registrations made just before the state's preelection deadline.

October 25, 2024

Judge blocks Virginia’s noncitizen voter purge, orders 1,500 names restored to election rolls

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vowed an appeal Friday after a federal judge ordered the state to restore 1,500 names to its voting rolls, saying officials were too hasty in declaring them noncitizens.

October 25, 2024

How the border surge upended a small Wisconsin town

To its residents, Whitewater, Wisconsin, was a sleepy college town of about 15,000 -- until a thousand migrants arrived in 2022 and 2023, straining the community's resources beyond the breaking point.

October 24, 2024

Appeals court tosses sentence for anti-Trump lawyer Michael Avenatti

A federal appeals court on Wednesday tossed one of anti-Trump lawyer Michael Avenatti's prison sentences, saying a lower court was too harsh on him.

October 23, 2024

‘Stunning security failure’: U.S. agents miss Venezuelan gang tattoos in scan for refugee approvals

Homeland Security greenlighted refugee applications for Venezuelan gang members after immigration officers failed to spot their gang tattoos, The Washington Times has learned.

October 23, 2024

Migrants rushing north, hoping Harris wins election

Migrants planning their journey to the U.S. are cheering for Vice President Kamala Harris to win the presidential election, figuring they'll get a better shake from her, according to a border expert.

October 23, 2024

Inside job: California official took bribes to steer pandemic relief money

A county supervisor in Orange County, California, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal felony bribery charge after collecting $550,000 to steer $9 million in pandemic relief funds to a charity that was supposed to provide meals to the elderly.

October 22, 2024