Stephen Dinan

FEMA fires 3 workers tied to anti-Trump discrimination

FEMA has fired three more employees it says were implicated in last year's "reprehensible" situation where emergency workers refused to visit Florida homes that displayed Trump campaign signs.

March 7, 2025

Union busting: DHS cancels TSA agents’ collective bargaining

Homeland Security canceled the Transportation Security Administration agents' collective bargaining agreement, saying the labor union has become too big of a problem.

March 7, 2025

NIH ‘transgender’ animal testing experiments more extensive than Trump said

New numbers from the White Coat Waste Project, shared with The Washington Times, show that the National Institutes of Health is currently funding at least 26 projects, totaling $64 million, to manipulate animals' sex organs and sex preferences -- all with the hope of benefiting the transgender community.

March 7, 2025

‘Power grab’: Judge lectures Trump over firing of labor board member

A federal judge unloaded on President Trump in a ruling Thursday calling his firing of a member of the National Labor Relations Board a "power grab," "flat wrong" and "a blatant violation of the law."

March 6, 2025

Trump seeks to make his challengers pay to stop him in court

President Trump moved Thursday to cut down on the tsunami of legal challenges filed against him so far by ordering his government to demand challengers put up collateral if they want to sue.

March 6, 2025

Special counsel resigns, removing roadblock to Trump firings

Special counsel Hampton Dellinger resigned his post on Thursday, removing himself as a hurdle to President Trump's plans to fire thousands of federal employees.

March 6, 2025

Activists fume after GOP calls Democratic lawmaker an ‘illegal immigrant’

Democrats demanded apologies from top Republicans this week after the House GOP's campaign arm labeled a member of Congress an "illegal immigrant."

March 6, 2025

Nobody’s buying Hunter Biden’s art anymore, and he even lost his home

Hunter Biden has fallen on tough financial times amid his legal woes and his father's departure from the White House.

March 6, 2025

Judge rules Trump’s broad spending pause violates Constitution

A federal judge declared Thursday that President Trump's attempt to pause potentially trillions of dollars in government grants and contracts violates the Constitution and cannot proceed.

March 6, 2025

Appeals court allows Trump to fire watchdog who delayed other terminations

A federal appeals court gave President Trump at least a short-term victory Wednesday in allowing him to oust a government watchdog who has emerged as a chief hurdle to his plans to remake the federal bureaucracy.

March 5, 2025

Trump’s speech used as evidence against him in court

President Trump's effusive praise of Elon Musk during his speech to Congress this week is already coming back to bite him, with one of his legal challengers saying he contradicted his own Justice Department's assurances to a judge.

March 5, 2025

Vance says deportations aren’t higher because Biden ‘gutted’ DHS system

Vice President J.D. Vance defended the Trump administration's pace of immigration arrests and deportations Wednesday, saying they are trying to rebuild a Homeland Security operation that was "gutted" by President Biden.

March 5, 2025

Sanctuary mayors blame Trump for scaring immigrants

Facing increasing pressure from Washington, sanctuary city mayors came to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to defend themselves, insisting their refusal to fully cooperate with federal immigration agents and officers makes their communities better.

March 5, 2025

Social Security downplays Trump’s numbers on dead people still on the books

The Social Security Administration said Wednesday that it does have people with impossible ages still on its books, as President Trump said earlier this week, but that doesn't mean they are getting benefits.

March 5, 2025

Vance tours border, touts plummet in border crossings

Vice President J.D. Vance visited the border in Texas on Wednesday and said the lower illegal immigration numbers are proof that the Biden migrant surge was a matter of resolve, not laws.

March 5, 2025

GSA erases public list of federal properties to be sold

The General Services Administration already has removed an online list of more than 400 "non-core" federal properties it said it wanted to sell off.

March 5, 2025

Federal watchdog blocks Trump’s firing of thousands at Agriculture Department

The Merit Systems Protection Board moved Wednesday to block the Trump administration's attempt to fire thousands of probationary workers at the Agriculture Department, saying the action may have violated the law.

March 5, 2025

‘No quid pro quo’: NYC Mayor Adams tells Congress he didn’t strike deal with Trump

New York City Mayor Eric Adams told Congress under oath on Wednesday that his new stance on unauthorized immigrants isn't the result of any deal with the Trump administration.

March 5, 2025

Supreme Court derails Trump admin’s freeze on $2B in foreign aid, sides with lower court

The Supreme Court delivered an early victory Wednesday to President Trump's opponents, ruling that a federal judge can order the administration to pay nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance money the White House had put on hold.

March 5, 2025

Mohammad Sharifullah charged as scout in Afghanistan airport bombing that killed 13 U.S. troops

U.S. authorities announced charges Wednesday against Mohammad Sharifullah, the man they said acted as a scout ahead of the suicide bombing that killed 13 American troops during the 2021 troop withdrawal in Afghanistan.

March 5, 2025