Stephen Dinan

Congress pushing EPA to set new timeline for ending animal testing

Congress is preparing a bipartisan punishment for the EPA over its backsliding on deadlines to phase out animal testing.

July 21, 2024

Republicans announce pilgrimage to scene of Trump shooting as part of congressional investigation

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green said he will lead a trip Monday to Butler, Pennsylvania, to get a first-hand look at where a gunman came within a quarter of an inch of assassinating former President Donald Trump.

July 20, 2024

Mayorkas defends female Secret Service agents after Trump shooting

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Saturday said it was "insulting" to question female Secret Service agents' performance during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

July 20, 2024

House subpoenas Mayorkas for Secret Service documents on Trump rally

The House Homeland Security Committee issued a subpoena Friday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding details on the Secret Service's preparations for the rally that nearly took the life of former President Donald Trump.

July 19, 2024

Feds disrupt smuggling network that specialized in migrants from terrorist hotspots

A man responsible for helping thousands of illegal immigrants reach the U.S. -- including from some of the world's most notorious terrorism hotspots -- has been arrested, the Justice Department announced.

July 19, 2024

GOP gaining ground in voter registration battle

Democrats still have an overall advantage over the GOP in terms of registered voters, but Republicans have narrowed the gap significantly since 2020, according to a new study.

July 19, 2024

Whistleblower office encourages tips on Trump assassination attempt

The federal government's chief whistleblower protection official on Friday encouraged federal employees to provide tips on failures that led to a gunman nearly killing former President Donald Trump.

July 19, 2024

Illegal immigrant smuggler claims she stopped near border to ‘fool around’

Jackie Nichole Hall said she just wanted to "fool around" with her boyfriend near the border.

July 19, 2024

‘Wow, what was that — it can only be a bullet’: Trump talks for first time of assassination attempt

Former President Donald Trump revealed Thursday that the thing that saved his life last weekend was that he was turning his head to look at one of his immigration charts.

July 18, 2024

‘God spared’ Trump’s life, Franklin Graham says

Evangelist Franklin Graham told Republican delegates Thursday that it was God who spared former President Donald Trump's life from an assassin's bullet last weekend.

July 18, 2024

Feds accuse migrant shelter of pervasive child sex abuse

The Justice Department announced a lawsuit Thursday against Southwest Key, one of the government's major providers of care for illegal-immigrant children, of allowing vile and rampant sexual abuse of those children.

July 18, 2024

Trump’s RNC spreads emotional, big-tent MAGA message — a show lauded even by Democrats

From the stage to the floor to the made-for-television production, former President Donald Trump has owned the moment at the Republican National Convention, presided over much of it personally and focused nearly all of the time on his push to sell MAGA to a broader audience.

July 18, 2024

Kamala Harris now more likely to win White House than Biden, oddsmakers say

Oddsmakers now give Vice President Kamala Harris a better chance of winning the White House than President Biden.

July 17, 2024

‘You’d better start packing now’: GOP convention vows deportations

The man who ran the government's deportation force under President Trump vowed Wednesday to restore order to the border and to begin ousting some of the millions of new illegal immigrants who arrived under President Biden.

July 17, 2024

Feds charge mental patient with threats to Biden

The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against a man at a mental health facility in Florida who prosecutors say made illegal threats against President Biden.

July 17, 2024

Biden to start illegal immigrant spouses amnesty Aug. 19

Immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally may qualify for President Biden's new deportation amnesty by dint of their marriage to U.S. citizens will be able to apply for the program on Aug. 19, the government said Wednesday.

July 17, 2024

Kamala Harris becomes high-profile target with Biden campaign in question

Anne Funder, whose son died from fentanyl, is angry at top Democrats, including President Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. But she expressed a particular disdain for Vice President Kamala Harris. She wasn't the only one.

July 17, 2024

WATCH: Families at GOP convention blame Biden’s border for relatives’ deaths

Anne Funder struggled through tears at the Republican National Convention as she delivered one of the toughest lines of the night Tuesday, saying she blamed President Biden for her son's fentanyl overdose.

July 16, 2024

Vance embraced real Trump after breaking through ‘media’s lies’; gives voice to a new GOP generation

Sen. J.D. Vance's political transformation reflects the shift in the broader Republican Party.

July 16, 2024

Neo-Nazi ‘Santa’ plot aimed to kill children; poisoned-candy suspect arrested

Federal authorities said Tuesday that they disrupted a plot last year to have a person dressed as Santa Claus give out poisoned candy to racial minorities in New York City.

July 16, 2024