Stephen Dinan

Mayorkas avoids impeachment as House Republicans fail to muster votes

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro escaped history on Tuesday after House Republicans fell short on their attempt to impeach him, failing to muster enough support within their own ranks.

February 6, 2024

Trump case offers study of the 14th Amendment; compares Jan. 6 riot with Civil War

America is about to get an intense history lesson, courtesy of former President Donald Trump and those trying to keep him off the ballot this year under the Constitution's 14th Amendment.

February 6, 2024

GOP chairman calls Mayorkas a ‘reptile,’ White House sees antisemitism

The White House on Tuesday accused Republican Rep. Mark Green of antisemitism after he reportedly called Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a "reptile" in urging colleagues to impeach the secretary.

February 6, 2024

Schumer dares GOP to vote against border bill: ‘No time for grandstanding’

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer vowed Tuesday to push ahead with a vote on the bipartisan border security deal and national security spending bill and lashed out at Republicans who are poised to tank the bill.

February 6, 2024

Senate border bill hits wall of bipartisan blowback

The walls are closing in from both sides of the aisle on the Senate border security bill, as liberals and conservatives say they can't stomach the policy changes.

February 5, 2024

Border experts divided on whether Senate deal will end the crisis

Mark Morgan, who ran Customs and Border Protection under President Trump, said there are so many loopholes in the Senate's new immigration deal that it is unlikely to solve the chaos at the southern border.

February 5, 2024

Border deal angers liberals too

It's not just conservatives who are balking at the new Senate border deal, with key Democrats and liberal pressure groups furious over what they see as President Biden's surrender on immigration.

February 5, 2024

Steve Daines, chair of Senate GOP’s campaign arm, blasts border security deal

Sen. Steve Daines, the Montana Republican whose job is to get Senate GOP candidates elected, came out in opposition Monday to a southern border security deal with Democrats tied to a $118 billion aid package with money for Ukraine and Israel.

February 5, 2024

Senate immigration deal backtracks on border wall deadlines

Tucked inside the new Senate border deal is language that would allow President Biden to postpone wall-building, giving him a chance to avoid erecting any more barriers during this current term.

February 5, 2024

Immigration deal gets tepid thumbs-up from Border Czar Kamala Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris weighed in with her lukewarm backing Sunday for the new bipartisan border deal, saying she thinks it will give the administration "additional solutions."

February 5, 2024

Congress assails EPA over ‘disgusting’ decision to revive chemical animal testing

Members of Congress are pressing the Environmental Protection Agency over its renewed support for animal testing and its backsliding on rabbits that were supposed to be retired, saying the government must seek out more humane ways to do science.

February 5, 2024

Border deal expands legal immigration, new powers to expel illegal immigrants

Senators revealed a new border security deal Sunday that would give President Biden new powers to block illegal immigrants at the border, though only after the flow averages more than 4,000 migrants a day.

February 4, 2024

Senators reach for border deal, House prepares impeachment in momentous week for immigration

Senators were rushing to finalize a deal to stiffen border security Sunday evening ahead of what is shaping up as the most momentous week in immigration policy in Washington in nearly four decades.

February 4, 2024

Study tempers media, political hype of mass shootings; most in U.S. don’t involve ‘assault rifles’

The national gun control debate focuses heavily on AR-15-style rifles but most mass public shootings over the last 25 years have actually used handguns, according to new myth-busting data from the Crime Prevention Research Center.

February 4, 2024

Secretaries of state warn of chaos if justices allow state officials to deny Trump ballot access

State election officials are begging the Supreme Court to be wary of allowing states to kick former President Donald Trump off the ballot this year, saying that granting them that power threatens to create an electoral arms race of retaliation.

February 3, 2024

Justices settle who will argue Trump ballot case: Colorado secretary of state, voters both get time

The Supreme Court has settled a dispute between lawyers over who will argue in favor of disqualifying former President Trump from the ballot because of the Constitution's insurrection clause.

February 2, 2024

Feds charge New Jersey political operative with mail-in ballot fraud

Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against a New Jersey political operative they say orchestrated a mail-in ballot fraud scheme in the 2022 election, casting ballots in the name of people who never actually voted.

February 1, 2024

Sanctuary switch-up: New York governor now backs deportations for migrants who assaulted police

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this week embraced deportation for the migrants who assaulted two New York City Police officers, challenging the logic of the city's sanctuary policy and drawing a rebuke from a former ICE director.

February 1, 2024

He’s mine: Lawyers looking to keep Trump off ballot arguing over who takes case to Supreme Court

Lawyers have been arguing over whether Donald Trump should be on the ballot this year -- and now they're arguing over who should get to argue about it before the Supreme Court.

February 1, 2024

Hunter Biden still has his law license. Trump alums ask D.C. to disbar him

America First Legal, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group, has filed a complaint asking the District of Columbia Bar to investigate whether Hunter Biden should lose his law license because of his illegal drug use and gun purchases and allegations about influence-peddling.

February 1, 2024