Stephen Dinan

Experts tell Congress no evidence for Biden impeachment — yet

Top legal and tax experts told Congress on Thursday that it's premature to impeach President Biden, though most agreed there were enough questions to continue investigating Hunter Biden's activities to see where it leads.

September 28, 2023

Republicans, in first impeachment hearing, say evidence points to Biden’s corruption, cover-up

House lawmakers launched their impeachment inquiry into President Biden Thursday with newly released documents they say strengthen their claims that he helped his son Hunter secure foreign business deals and that the Justice Department worked to cover up those actions.

September 28, 2023

Civil liberties board backs U.S. snooping program, but demands big changes

The civil liberties board on Thursday urged Congress to renew the government's top snooping tool, which scoops up communications from thousands of targets, saying that even with all of its flaws, the program has sniffed out serious terrorist threats to the U.S.

September 28, 2023

Candidates call for end to birthright citizenship at GOP debate

Republicans called for building more border wall, surging more security personnel to the border and stripping birthright citizenship from children of illegal immigrants as they found common ground in Wednesday night's presidential candidates' debate.

September 27, 2023

GOP aims to shut down DHS intelligence board with embattled former Obama officials

House Republicans said Wednesday they will try to shut down a new Homeland Security intelligence panel, whose members include several Obama administration figures, that spread disinformation about Hunter Biden's laptop.

September 27, 2023

New York to stick migrants on risky national park site with no police or jobs

The Biden administration is slashing through environmental protection rules and worries about policing and the health of illegal immigrants as it rushes to erect a migrant camp on a national park site in New York City, local lawmakers told Congress on Wednesday.

September 27, 2023

Chinese nationals sent $260,000 to Hunter Biden in 2019 at father’s address

Chinese nationals sent $260,000 in bank wires to Hunter Biden in 2019 and listed President Biden's home as the address, House Republicans revealed Tuesday, calling it more refutation of the president's repeated claims of having nothing to do with his son's business dealings.

September 26, 2023

ICE hits post-pandemic high for detaining illegal immigrants

The administration is now detaining 35,000 illegal immigrants, the most since President Biden took office, according to new data released Tuesday that shows Homeland Security increasingly turning to Trump-style get-tough measures to respond to the record border surge.

September 26, 2023

Trump up big among Hispanics in GOP, but Biden dominates head-to-head matchup

Former President Donald Trump gets 50% of the support of Hispanic voters in a Republican primary but still trails President Biden by a wide margin in a general election matchup, according to a new poll released this week.

September 26, 2023

Fraud, errors cost food stamp program nearly $1B a month

Officials in Maryland several years ago managed to disable one of the systems that was supposed to check whether food stamp applications had a low enough income to qualify for the benefit.

September 26, 2023

Catch, release, murder: HHS withholds answers on suspected MS-13 migrant charged with slaying woman

Top Republicans said the Health and Human Services Department is withholding from Congress a report on its handling of a migrant juvenile who was caught illegally entering the country and released and now stands accused of murdering a 20-year-old woman in Maryland.

September 25, 2023

FBI defied agents with aggressive approach to search of Trump’s home

The Justice Department pushed for an aggressive approach to search for classified documents at Donald Trump's home after overruling agents who wanted to try to gain the former president's cooperation, a senior FBI official said.

September 24, 2023

DHS breaks record with more than 300,000 unauthorized entries in August

Homeland Security saw 304,162 unauthorized migrants enter the country in August alone, breaking the previous monthly record and heightening the challenges confronting the Biden administration.

September 22, 2023

Supreme Court to take up guns — possibly abortion, diversity — in 2023 term

The conservative-leaning Supreme Court over the past two years has rewritten jurisprudence on guns, race and abortion. It's about to confront the results of those rulings in its term that begins next week.

September 22, 2023

GOP demands transparency on Afghans airlifted to U.S. as Mayorkas renews amnesty

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee demanded answers Thursday from the State Department over who is helping Afghans settle into the U.S.

September 21, 2023

Mayorkas’ latest border reset: More amnesty and more troops; Venezuelans get special status

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is attempting his third immigration policy reset in just nine months, announcing new troop deployments to the border and faster deportation of families, coupled with an expanded amnesty for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants and more generous work permits to other illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

September 21, 2023

Telework’s empty buildings open the door for Legionnaires’ disease

The water supply in at least six federal government buildings is contaminated with the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease, and the problem may be even more widespread, according to the inspector general who oversees U.S. properties.

September 21, 2023

DHS announces another immigration reset: More troops for border, more amnesty for those already here

With the southern border being pounded by a new wave of illegal immigrants, Homeland Security announced a new deployment of 800 active-duty troops to the border and said it will expand a speedy deportation program to try to deter the surge of families.

September 20, 2023

DHS scrambles to deal with thousands of migrants swarming across border Wednesday in Texas

Homeland Security shut down some lanes of traffic at a Mexican border crossing Wednesday and shifted personnel to help with the latest crisis, a new surge of thousands of migrants streaming into Eagle Pass, Texas.

September 20, 2023

Wuhan lab barred from HHS money for 10 years

The federal government has slapped a punitive 10-year ban on China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, barring it from getting any money through the Health and Human Services Department.

September 20, 2023