Stephen Dinan

Cuban regime members go free in U.S. under Biden’s ‘parole’

The Biden administration has allowed relatives of Cuba's prime minister, senior political figures -- and even a former military colonel who helped to shoot down humanitarian airplanes -- to enter the U.S. under its special "parole" program, according to the Cuban-American community.

September 16, 2024

Whistleblower: ‘Low-caliber agent’ led Trump security during rally assassination attempt

Sen. Josh Hawley released whistleblower allegations Monday that the lead agent in charge of the scene at the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in July was known to be a "low-caliber agent."

September 16, 2024

State officials tout voter roll cleanups after 2020 election, clash over noncitizen voting

State election officials showed up on Capitol Hill last week to talk about preparations for November's vote, and suddenly a "top this" competition broke out.

September 15, 2024

Minnesota deactivates 1,000 ineligible voters, including noncitizens

Minnesota elections officials said they kicked about 1,000 names off their active voter rolls this week after a challenge by the Republican National Committee.

September 13, 2024

Feds arrest woman from violent pro-Hamas protest at Union Station

Federal authorities arrested a Maryland woman Friday and charged her with defacing a monument near the Capitol during the pro-Palestinian rally protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress in July.

September 13, 2024

Data backs up Trump on crime increase, violence up under Biden-Harris administration

Crime rates remained elevated last year under President Biden, according to Justice Department data released Thursday that challenges a prevailing media and White House narrative.

September 12, 2024

Appeals court orders halt to first-ever U.S. betting market on American elections

Kalshi, a financial exchange platform, opened the first American-based betting market on U.S. elections Thursday after a federal judge rejected regulators' attempts to shut it down.

September 12, 2024

DHS proposes another two-year delay in full Real ID compliance

The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it wants to start prodding people to use Real ID-compliant identification next year but will grant another two-year delay before fully mandating its use.

September 12, 2024

DHS designates Electoral College vote count as special national security event

Homeland Security on Wednesday officially designated the Electoral College vote count and certification as a special national security event, putting the U.S. Secret Service in charge of security surrounding the process.

September 11, 2024

Politics, pets and cat memes: Trump won’t bury rumors on Haitian immigrants

Sen. J.D. Vance acknowledged that reports of Haitian migrants in Ohio eating dogs and cats may not be accurate, but former President Donald Trump injected the issue straight back into the political bloodstream hours later in Tuesday's debate.

September 11, 2024

Ohio attorney general backs claims about Haitians eating geese

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost weighed in Wednesday in defense of former President Donald Trump's claims of Haitian migrants eating pets by saying there is a credible claim that they are capturing geese for food.

September 11, 2024

Trump talks migrants eating pets, Harris ducks immigration question

Former President Donald Trump elevated claims of migrants in an Ohio town eating dogs and cats to the national stage Tuesday, saying it was more evidence of the chaos from President Biden's border management.

September 10, 2024

Trump says he’ll send Harris a MAGA hat

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris has tacked so far toward his own positions on immigration and other policies that he is "going to send her a MAGA hat."

September 10, 2024

Assassins keep cartels in control of migrants; U.S. operations ‘already rooted’

Congress heard horrifying testimony Tuesday about a network of assassins associated with Mexican cartels and operating in the U.S.

September 10, 2024

Biden abandoned 90% of Afghan allies in Kabul evacuation, House report finds

As the Taliban fighters were closing in on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, American diplomats stared at a pile of passports they had collected from Afghan allies who had assisted the war effort and were seeking a special visa to get them out of harm's way.

September 9, 2024

DOJ issues warning as GOP states try to clean noncitizens from voter rolls

The Justice Department issued a warning to states Monday to tread lightly in trying to clean up their election systems of bogus names and ineligible voters, firing a shot across the bow of GOP-led states that have been trying to erase noncitizens from their rolls.

September 9, 2024

U.S. authorities charge ‘Terrorgram’ leaders with fomenting global White supremacist attacks

Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against two people associated with "Terrorgram," an online network of White supremacists that encouraged attacks on Black, gay and immigrant targets, as well as assassinations of high-ranking American officials.

September 9, 2024

Fraud plagues Biden ‘parole’ program: Michelle Obama’s passport used; dead people named sponsors

Gang members and scammers using dead people's names were applying to be sponsors for President Biden's fraud-riddled immigration "parole" program that has welcomed hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, The Washington Times has learned.

September 9, 2024

IRS recovers $1.3 billion from rich people who ducked taxes

The IRS has now clawed back $1.3 billion from the country's wealthiest taxpayers using initiatives launched after President Biden won historic funding increases for the tax agency.

September 6, 2024

Appeals courts increasingly skeptical of gun controls in wake of Supreme Court rulings

It's been a busy summer for federal judges as they've wrestled with the Second Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court's significant but confusing string of gun rulings over the last few years.

September 5, 2024