Stephen Dinan

UVa. spends $20 million a year on DEI staff, study concludes

The University of Virginia shells out $20 million a year to employees who work on diversity, equity and inclusion, according to a new analysis of the public school's spending.

March 5, 2024

Woke agenda surmounts GOP hurdles in budget bill; spending bans fail for ‘ecogrief’ therapy, DEI

Republicans took control of the House last year vowing to use the power of the purse to reel in President Biden's woke agenda. The first go-round didn't fare so well.

March 5, 2024

Feds aren’t doing asbestos checks in most government buildings

The federal government isn't keeping up with its safety checks for asbestos in government buildings, according to an audit this week that dings the General Services Administration for the failure.

March 5, 2024

DHS didn’t collect DNA from 60% of illegal immigrants, whistleblower says

Homeland Security is collecting DNA from less than 40% of illegal immigrants encountered trying to enter the U.S., a whistleblower has told Congress.

March 5, 2024

House to vote on get-tough illegal immigration bill named after Laken Riley

The House is scheduled to vote this week on a bill to condemn the Biden administration for the catch-and-release of a migrant accused of killing a student on a Georgia college campus.

March 4, 2024

Trump calls on Democrats to drop all legal challenges after Supreme Court ruling

Former President Donald Trump celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling Monday keeping him on state ballots, saying the justices worked "brilliantly" to shut down a host of legal challenges calling him unqualified to run because of his behavior surrounding the 2020 election.

March 4, 2024

Supreme Court unanimously rejects attempts to ban Trump from ballots over Jan. 6 Capitol riot

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot strip former President Donald Trump from their ballots over claims he engaged in an insurrection and likely shut down future federal court challenges as well, effectively settling the debate over whether he can be an option for voters this year.

March 4, 2024

Not just Trump: States block Democrat Cenk Uygur from ballots over how he became a citizen

For Cenk Uygur, the most disappointing thing about his long-shot bid for president has been the lack of support from civil liberties and immigrant rights groups, who have been unwilling to help him in his battle to get on state primary ballots.

March 3, 2024

Congresswoman announces bill to declare border ‘invasion’

Rep. Debbie Lesko announced new legislation Friday that would declare the situation at the border an "invasion," a move that could add legal heft to Texas's defense of its strict enforcement laws.

March 1, 2024

House Majority Whip Emmer calls border ‘Joe Biden’s crime scene’

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer on Friday said the southern border is "Joe Biden's crime scene" and predicted voters will reward the GOP in November for its efforts to try to plug the illegal immigration flood.

March 1, 2024

Biden, Trump trade blame in dueling border visits

President Biden visited the border in Texas on Thursday to blame Donald Trump for gridlock on immigration and plead with Congress to forgo politics and pass new laws he said would control the masses of people surging into the U.S.

February 29, 2024

Trump says the border is ‘Joe Biden invasion’

Former President Donald Trump declared a "Joe Biden invasion" on Thursday as he visited the border in Texas, but said he fixed it before and he can do it again if he's returned to the White House.

February 29, 2024

Mayorkas gets subpoena over DHS interference with Texas border-security efforts

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was jetting to the border with President Biden on Thursday when the House Judiciary Committee announced it had slapped him with a subpoena demanding information on why his agents have been messing with Texas' border solutions.

February 29, 2024

Trump visits the ‘very dangerous’ border: ‘We’re going to take care of it’

Former President Donald Trump is visiting the border in Texas on Thursday where he said it has become "very dangerous," but vowed he would "take care of it" if he's reelected.

February 29, 2024

Federal judge rules migrant surge not ‘invasion’; halts Texas law criminalizing illegal immigrants

A federal judge ruled Thursday that the migrant surge at the southern border is not an "invasion" under the Constitution and ordered Texas state officials not to enforce a new law creating state penalties for being in the country illegally.

February 29, 2024

Whistleblower: Federal agency’s HQ is ‘empty’; Vilsack says work is getting done

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack reacted angrily to a whistleblower's complaint that his headquarters is a pandemic telework "ghost town," calling that an insult to "the USDA family."

February 29, 2024

Biden to use border visit to prod Congress to pass bipartisan border deal

President Biden will be at the border Thursday in Brownsville, Texas, where the White House says he will press Congress to revive the bipartisan border deal that fell to a Senate filibuster.

February 29, 2024

ICE confirms man accused of abusing teen girl is Venezuelan migrant paroled by Biden

A man accused of sexually abusing a teen girl in Virginia is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who was "paroled" into the U.S. last year under Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' relaxed border policies.

February 28, 2024

State judge rules Trump should be kicked off Illinois primary ballot

A state judge in Illinois ruled Wednesday that former President Donald Trump cannot appear on the state's primary ballot, but she put her ruling on hold to await a Supreme Court decision in a similar case.

February 28, 2024

Violent crime wave complicates Biden’s border narrative; sanctuaries reconsider policies

A rash of high-profile crimes attributed to illegal immigrants is upending the immigration debate, forcing sanctuary cities to rethink their policies and causing new headaches for President Biden as he prepares to visit the border on Thursday.

February 28, 2024