Stephen Dinan

Judge declines to stop Trump’s firing of probationary federal workers

A federal judge on Thursday rejected labor unions' request for a restraining order halting President Trump's firing of thousands of new federal employees who were still working on a probationary period.

February 20, 2025

Man who sold guns to illegal immigrants gets 12-year prison sentence

A man who sold guns to illegal immigrants in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border was sentenced Thursday to more than 12 years in prison.

February 20, 2025

Homeland Security deputizes State Department personnel to enforce immigration

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has deputized up to 600 law enforcement officers from the State Department to serve as immigration enforcement officers.

February 20, 2025

State Department to designate MS-13, Tren de Aragua as terrorist organizations

The State Department designated two migrant gangs and six Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations, following through on a campaign promise President Trump made to step up pressure on the groups.

February 19, 2025

Trump, Associated Press enter ring for media supremacy; presidential power vs. press freedom

Amid all of the fights the new president has picked so far, his feud with The Associated Press is the spiciest: one part petty, one part subversive and one part pure power politics.

February 19, 2025

Poverty level surged among new immigrants under Biden

The immigrants President Biden welcomed to the U.S. over the last four years were poorer and less educated than their predecessors, according to a new study released Wednesday.

February 19, 2025

Catholic bishops sue Trump administration to demand restart of refugee money

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, asking a federal judge to order the State Department to restart the taxpayer money that the bishops say they need in order to help refugees.

February 18, 2025

Feds bust migrant crime ring suspected in burglaries at sports stars’ homes

Federal prosecutors revealed charges Tuesday against seven Chilean migrants accused of running a sophisticated burglary ring that targets pro athletes across the country,

February 18, 2025

Judge unconvinced by blue states’ alarm at Musk’s role in federal government

A federal judge backed Elon Musk on Tuesday, rejecting an attempt by Democrat-led states to shut down his work with President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency.

February 18, 2025

U.S. deported 14,470 people to Mexico since Trump took office

Mexico says it has been the recipient of 14,470 deportees since President Trump took office on Jan. 20 -- a rate that's slightly lower than in the final year of the Biden administration.

February 18, 2025

Judge blocks Trump’s firing of Biden appointee to MSPB

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the government to restore Cathy A. Harris to her position on the Merit Systems Protection Board, saying it appears President Trump's attempt to fire her was illegal.

February 18, 2025

Smuggling crackdown jacks up cartel prices; up to $30,000 to reach U.S. interior

Mexican migrants, who usually pay the lowest rates, are now regularly shelling out $10,000 apiece, and prices as high as $16,000 are not unusual, according to The Washington Times' database of border smuggling cases.

February 18, 2025

Musk doesn’t run DOGE, White House says

Elon Musk doesn't have independent powers to fire anyone from federal agencies, the Justice Department has told a federal judge, shooting down some of critics' more fantastical theories about the head of President Trump's effort to remake the bureaucracy.

February 18, 2025

Laser from Mexico targets DHS helicopter

Someone on the Mexican side of the border aimed a laser at a Homeland Security helicopter that was patrolling along the boundary this month, the U.S. government said Tuesday.

February 18, 2025

Catch and release is over, DHS says; January saw lowest border numbers since summer of 2020

Homeland Security saw illegal immigration plummet in January, according to new data published Tuesday that showed the border had the lowest level of migrants detected since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

February 18, 2025

Court watchers expect Supreme Court will take up Trump’s firings, birthright citizenship challenge

The first legal challenge to President Trump's aggressive agenda is now heading to the Supreme Court after he asked the justices to remove a lower court order that blocked him from ousting a top government watchdog.

February 18, 2025

Federal agencies give Trump’s Truth Social the cold shoulder

President Trump may own Truth Social, but his own federal agencies have been reluctant to get on it.

February 18, 2025

Time to go: DHS tells illegal immigrants to ‘self-deport and stay out’

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem launched what the department called an international ad campaign on Monday urging illegal immigrants to "self deport and stay out."

February 17, 2025

Trump cleaves through federal workforce with ‘probationary’ firings

President Trump has taken a cleaver to the federal bureaucracy over the last week, sparing almost no part of the government as agencies fired thousands of recently hired employees that his administration says it can do without.

February 16, 2025

Trump DOJ fires 20 Biden immigration judges

The Trump administration has canned 20 "midnight" immigration judges the Biden administration tried to shoehorn onto the courts in its final days, The Washington Times has learned.

February 15, 2025