Stephen Dinan

House probe accuses Mayorkas of flouting 12 laws and court orders

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has flouted at least a dozen laws or court orders related to immigration, a House committee charged Wednesday in a new report that lays the groundwork for impeachment proceedings.

July 19, 2023

‘Parental discretion is advised’: MTG introduces photos of Hunter Biden sex acts at hearing

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene held up photos of Hunter Biden engaged in sex acts with an alleged prostitute at a congressional hearing Wednesday and said it was evidence that he had violated a federal law prohibiting transporting someone across state lines for sex.

July 19, 2023

IRS agents say Justice Department brass nixed felony charges against Hunter Biden

Prosecutors working the Hunter Biden case agreed to bring felony charges against the president's son only to have that decision stymied by President Biden's operatives, two IRS whistleblowers told Congress on Wednesday.

July 19, 2023

Feds use pandemic fraud charges to bust Step or Die street gang

They got Al Capone on tax evasion, and now federal prosecutors have managed to bust up a Louisiana street gang by charging two dozen people with pandemic benefit fraud.

July 19, 2023

Texas denies ordering police to push migrants back into the Rio Grande

Texas officials on Tuesday vehemently denied a new press report that they had ordered police to push illegal immigrant children back into the Rio Grande and refused to give water to those who make it across the river from Mexico.

July 18, 2023

Illegal immigration cools at southern border as Biden policies take hold

Illegal immigration at the southern border has dropped to its lowest levels since just after President Biden took office, with Customs and Border Protection reporting fewer than 145,000 encounters with unauthorized migrants in June.

July 18, 2023

Defense Department sitting on 20,822 unused border wall panels

The Defense Department revealed Tuesday that it has more than 20,000 unused border wall panels in storage that it is trying to dispose of after President Biden halted construction.

July 18, 2023

Vanishing act: DHS admits that 40% of catch-and-release migrants disappeared

ICE failed to deliver immigration court summonses to more than 80% of illegal immigrants caught and released under the Biden administration's "parole" program just before the end of the Title 42 pandemic border policy, according to new statistics the government submitted to a federal judge.

July 18, 2023

Illegal immigrant kids with tuberculosis infections released into 44 states

The government is releasing thousands of illegal immigrant children with latent tuberculosis infections into America's communities, with no assurances they will get treated.

July 18, 2023

FBI agent confirms IRS agents’ testimony on interference in Hunter Biden probe

A supervisory special agent at the FBI has confirmed a key element of IRS agents' testimony that they were blocked from interviewing Hunter Biden as part of their investigation into his criminal activities, Republicans' top investigator said Monday.

July 17, 2023

GOP bill would shut down Biden administration’s ‘ecogrief’ training

House Republicans are moving to derail the Biden administration's "ecogrief" training for federal employees, attaching language to a spending bill that would bar the Interior Department from offering the classes to its employees.

July 16, 2023

Sen. James Lankford calls for reinforcements to stop drugs at border

Stopping fentanyl at the border often means spotting packages concealed as cargo in vehicles at border crossings -- but the government is struggling just to man the scanning machines.

July 12, 2023

ICE released a repeat child sex offender who is now accused of raping a 13-year-old girl

The Biden administration has made a point of trying to deport immigrants with sex offenses on their records, so it's surprising that they never went after Ransford Perry.

July 11, 2023

Lawmakers ask VA to stop ‘cruel’ experiments on cats

Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough approved an experiment last year to implant sensors for a prosthetic hand into cats -- a move that members of Congress say is "at odds" with new federal laws meant to limit the government's use of dogs, cats and primates in experiments.

July 11, 2023

DHS opens new pathway for Central American migrants to reach U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has opened a new avenue for migrants from Central America to reach the U.S. without skirting the border, announcing the start Friday of a parole program that will let people jump the green card line and enter earlier.

July 7, 2023

State’s expanded voting rules test federal Election Day law

Activists are challenging the expansion of Election Day into a full election season with a new lawsuit aimed at trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle.

July 6, 2023

Race in college admission essays could spark new legal battles, court watchers say

The man who led the lawsuit that upended universities' race-based affirmative action policies warned schools against trying to find a workaround by asking Black and Hispanic applicants to focus on their race or ethnicity in their admission essays.

July 6, 2023

Overwhelmed Border Patrol releases terrorism suspect into U.S.: Federal audit

The Border Patrol caught a terrorism suspect at the southern border but was too overwhelmed by the surge of migrants to properly flag the person and instead released the person into the country, according to a new government audit.

July 5, 2023

Prostitutes for Hunter Biden cross legality line

Tucked deep within IRS criminal investigators' testimony about Hunter Biden is the revelation that the Justice Department, in addition to probing tax and gun crimes, was also collecting data to charge the president's son with transporting prostitutes across state lines.

July 5, 2023

Food stamp errors soar since pandemic onset; 10% overpaid

The food stamp program was slammed with fraud and bungling during the pandemic, leading to the highest rate of "improper payments" on record last year, according to new government data.

July 4, 2023