Stephen Dinan

‘You’re so desperate’: Haley blasts DeSantis over Social Security reform plans

Nikki Haley unleashed on Ron DeSantis at Wednesday's Republican presidential-primary debate, calling his style "demeaning" and saying he was lying "because he's losing."

January 10, 2024

DeSantis takes victory lap over battle with Disney

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday accused Nikki Haley of caving to "woke" interests when she was South Carolina governor by derailing a bill to restrict access to school bathrooms based on a child's sex.

January 10, 2024

‘They all have to go back’: DeSantis vows deportation of Biden’s illegal immigrants

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed Wednesday to deport the illegal immigrants who have entered the U.S. under President Biden and said he won't grant amnesty to a single unauthorized migrant.

January 10, 2024

Haley, DeSantis trade accusations of lying to voters on Iowa debate stage

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley strode onto the presidential debate stage in Iowa Wednesday night hoping to capitalize on recent momentum, bury Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and establish herself as the GOP's major alternative to former President Donald Trump.

January 10, 2024

‘We’re going to impeach him’: GOP makes case for ousting Mayorkas

The man leading impeachment proceedings laid out the GOP's case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, saying he's earned ouster because of his lies to Congress and the public, plummeting morale among his employees and growing deaths at the border.

January 10, 2024

Speaker Johnson: New border deal must include more wall

Any new pact on border security must have an iron-clad guarantee to build hundreds of miles of new wall, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday.

January 10, 2024

As House starts Mayorkas impeachment, DHS blasts process as motivated by politics

The Homeland Security Department defended Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ahead of the first impeachment hearing Wednesday, saying "extremists" within the GOP are wasting time on the effort rather than working to fix the border.

January 10, 2024

Rep. Matt Rosendale begins effort to impeach Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

A Montana Republican filed an article of impeachment Tuesday against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for "providing aid" to America's enemies.

January 9, 2024

GOP’s lack of trust in Biden, Mayorkas emerges as hurdle to border security deal

The border security negotiations on Capitol Hill keep running into a key problem: Republicans don't trust the Biden administration to follow through with any tough measures.

January 9, 2024

GOP identifies Biden’s 64 actions that have ‘broken’ the border

House Speaker Mike Johnson released a list Tuesday detailing 64 actions President Biden has taken that wrecked the border and created the worst levels of illegal immigration in history.

January 9, 2024

Ahead of impeachment hearing, Mayorkas says he’s been upholding the law

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday that he's done what he can on his own to solve the border crisis and now it's up to Congress to offer more support by approving President Biden's request for $14 billion in new money.

January 8, 2024

FBI urges Supreme Court to protect No Fly list secrecy

The FBI begged the Supreme Court on Monday to keep the operations of the No Fly list shrouded in secrecy, saying the government needs to be able to make decisions about whom to ban without having to divulge its decision-making.

January 8, 2024

Feds shut down bizarre immigration fraud that involved staged armed robberies

Federal authorities say they have busted a fiendish and ingenious fraud ring that was staging armed robberies at convenience stores so that the supposed victims, who were illegal immigrants, could then file applications with Homeland Security to stay in the country on victim visas.

January 7, 2024

Supreme Court sides with Idaho in challenge to state’s strict abortion law

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked a lower court ruling that had upended Idaho's strict abortion law in a case that's shaping up as a test of whether the federal government can force emergency rooms to provide abortions in emergencies despite state restrictions.

January 5, 2024

Supreme Court will hear Trump’s appeal after Colorado kicked him off the ballot

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear former President Donald Trump's appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision kicking him off the state's primary ballot over his actions surrounding the 2020 election.

January 5, 2024

Riot act: Feds go hard on Jan. 6 defendants but dismissed most Portland riot cases

More than a dozen defendants from the Portland riots in 2020 got diversion agreements and 70 had their cases dismissed without a conviction. Compare that to the Jan. 6, 2021, defendants, where Justice Department records show more than 1,230 people have been arrested. Of those, about 440 were felony cases of assaulting or impeding a law enforcement officer -- much the same conduct as in Portland.

January 5, 2024

Muslim American’s challenge to No Fly list reaches Supreme Court

A lawyer for the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Monday will argue before the Supreme Court for the first time, asking the justices to help a Muslim man stay off the government's no-fly list that blocks people from boarding airplanes.

January 4, 2024

Bill Clinton identified in Jeffrey Epstein court documents

Former President Bill Clinton was listed among more than 150 names made public in court documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

January 3, 2024

Biden’s DOJ sues Texas over law that criminalizes illegal immigration

The Justice Department asked a federal judge on Wednesday to block Texas's new strict immigration law that makes being in the country illegally a state crime.

January 3, 2024

Republicans at border insist on security; Speaker Johnson raps Biden team for ‘unmitigated disaster’

House Speaker Mike Johnson led dozens of Republicans to the border in Texas on Wednesday, saying they got a first-hand look at the devastation of unprecedented illegal immigration and calling the situation "heartbreaking and infuriating."

January 3, 2024