Stephen Dinan

Yale nixes race-based admissions preferences after Supreme Court ruling

Yale University has promised to stop using race as a factor in offering admission or financial aid as the school moves to comply with this summer's Supreme Court ruling.

September 8, 2023

IRS vows ‘equity’ in new approach to audits

The IRS says it will pursue "equity" in its decisions on whom to audit, vowing to pay special attention to the wealthiest Americans while working to reduce scrutiny on the working poor.

September 8, 2023

Report: DHS eyes ordering illegal immigrants to stay in Texas

The Biden administration is pondering a new policy that would order unauthorized immigrants to stay in Texas after they arrive, preventing them from spreading throughout the country, according to a new report Thursday.

September 7, 2023

Biden’s construction halt worsens Trump wall damage; erosion undermines integrity

President Trump's border wall scarred the environment, but so did President Biden's decision to halt all work, according to a new report Thursday which said the new administration ended up stopping all the remediation work that had been planned to repair the lands.

September 7, 2023

New York Mayor Eric Adams warns that migrants will ‘destroy New York City’

New York Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday that the migrants arriving rapidly in New York will "destroy" his city.

September 7, 2023

After slaying, N.Y. county wonders who freed illegal immigrant murder suspect

Carlos E. Corrales-Ramirez was wanted in connection with a stabbing in Laurel, Maryland, in February and was arrested a month later by the Border Patrol near the border with Canada. Authorities in New York are wondering why the 20-year-old Honduran illegal immigrant was free in their community on Saturday when, they say, he stabbed and killed another man.

September 5, 2023

IRS still struggling to hire, train agents to go after wealthy taxpayers

The IRS is still struggling to carry out President Biden's orders to go after more high-income taxpayers, an inspector general said Tuesday, saying the tax agency is grappling just to keep up with attrition in its ranks, much less expand its audits.

September 5, 2023

Illegal immigrant is suspect in N.Y. murder, says county executive

The man suspected in a murder in Troy, New York, is in the country illegally, according to the county executive who blamed the federal government's lax immigration policies and "sanctuary cities" for allowing him in the country.

September 5, 2023

GOP accuses Attorney General Merrick Garland of stonewalling as courts struggle with migrant surge

Two top Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee demanded answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday over how his department has been running the immigration courts, where a massive backlog of cases has fueled the Biden administration's "catch-and-release" approach for processing of migrants at the nation's southern border.

September 1, 2023

NYC mayor pushes Biden for permits to put illegal immigrants to work

Pummeled by the wave of illegal immigrants swamping his city, Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams rallied with migrants Thursday to demand the Biden administration speed up the process of issuing them work permits, figuring the way to get them off the public dole is to find them jobs.

August 31, 2023

Feds bust U.S. gang accused of trying to smuggle guns to Sinaloa cartel

Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against five people they say were buying guns in the U.S. and trying to ship them to the Sinaloa cartel, one of Mexico's major drug and human smuggling syndicates.

August 30, 2023

‘Santa Mayorkas’ gives extra day off; Labor Day like Christmas for ‘dedicated,’ ‘talented’ workforce

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is giving his department's 260,000 employees an extra day of leave, adding to more than $1 billion worth of vacation time he has already doled out in two-and-a-half years in office.

August 29, 2023

Biden admin pushed to sell costly offices left empty by pandemic telework

If the Biden administration isn't going to get federal workers back into the office, a waste-watching senator says it's time for the government to sell off desks.

August 29, 2023

Feds target Snapchat smugglers in wave of arrests

Authorities pored over cellphone data and social media accounts to sniff out 22 people whom they have charged with being Snapchat smugglers.

August 27, 2023

Gunshots at border as smugglers take aim at agents

Homeland Security has detected multiple instances of people armed with guns sneaking into the U.S. from Mexico, including one where agents trying to arrest a group of illegal immigrants came under fire twice.

August 26, 2023

Buying friends: Mayorkas gave $1 billion in extra vacation to DHS employees

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has granted his employees more than $1 billion worth of additional taxpayer-funded vacation time, according to department staffers, who say Mr. Mayorkas is using taxpayers' money in an ill-fated attempt to win affection from an alienated workforce.

August 24, 2023

Trump unloads on Democrats’ presidential hopefuls

Former President Donald Trump delivered a withering critique of the Democrats who might compete for the presidency should President Biden not "make it to the gate" -- and he was particularly brutal about Vice President Kamala Harris.

August 24, 2023

Trump calls political opponents ‘savages,’ says they will try to steal 2024 election

Former President Donald Trump called those pushing criminal cases against him "savages" and warned about "a level of hatred I've never seen" in the country, in an interview posted Wednesday just before the other major GOP presidential candidates debated for the first time.

August 23, 2023

Hundreds of COVID fraudsters charged as DOJ recovers $1.4 billion, launches 2 new strike forces

The Justice Department celebrated its pandemic fraud efforts Wednesday, saying it has seized $1.4 billion back from fraudsters.

August 23, 2023

Parents challenge Virginia high school’s admissions after affirmative action ruling

Parents and students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology set the table for the next big test of affirmative action this week, asking the Supreme Court to overrule the school's new admissions policy as unfair discrimination against Asian Americans.

August 22, 2023