Stephen Dinan

Civil rights groups challenge Harvard over ‘mostly White’ donor admissions policy

Civil rights advocates filed a challenge on Monday to Harvard University's legacy and donor admissions policies, calling them unfair giveaways to "mostly White" students.

July 3, 2023

Biden is forced to build Trump’s border wall

Homeland Security said Friday it will build 20 more miles of border wall, carrying out some of former President Donald Trump's marquee campaign promise.

June 30, 2023

DHS opens wider door for illegal immigrants to schedule their arrivals

Homeland Security announced late Friday that it is expanding the daily number of slots for unauthorized migrants to schedule appointments to come into the U.S. to 1,450 a day.

June 30, 2023

Supreme Court to hear major gun rights case in next term

The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear a case involving whether the government can bar domestic violence perpetrators from owning a gun, setting up the next big test of gun rights for the justices.

June 30, 2023

Roberts warns Supreme Court justices to stop sniping at each other

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. closed out the Supreme Court's term on Friday with a warning to justices to cut out the carping, saying that the increasingly harsh language they're using in their opinions to attack each other's rulings is hurting the court.

June 30, 2023

Supreme Court shoots down Biden’s student loan forgiveness

The Supreme Court struck down President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, ruling Friday that those kinds of big policy questions must be left to Congress, not to executive action.

June 30, 2023

Black student groups push back after high court ends affirmative action

Black students predicted minority enrollment at major universities will plummet in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision Thursday striking down affirmative action admissions policies.

June 29, 2023

Black justices battle over meaning of equality in affirmative action case

Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday offered a majestic view of America waiting to be unshackled from the evils of racial discrimination that began with slavery, persisted through segregation and most recently manifested in affirmative action.

June 29, 2023

House GOP demands interviews with DOJ, IRS officials in Hunter Biden probe

House Republican chairmen said Thursday that they want to interview the high-ranking Justice Department, FBI and IRS officials who have been accused of derailing a proper probe into Hunter Biden's illegal activities.

June 29, 2023

‘Kick them when they’re down’: MLK’s family blasts affirmative action ruling

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a searing rebuke to the Supreme Court after Thursday's ruling striking down race-based affirmative action policies, saying it was an attack on "Black and Brown Americans."

June 29, 2023

Supreme Court rules for ex-mail carrier refusing to work on Sabbath

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of an ex-postal worker who challenged the U.S. Postal Service for refusing to back his religious accommodation not to work on the Sabbath.

June 29, 2023

Gas giants: Biden team spewed greenhouse gases by flying 400 people to climate talks

Sometimes it takes a little gas to try to stop more gas. At least that was the logic of the Biden administration, which flew more than 400 government officials to two U.N. climate change conferences in Scotland and Egypt, spewing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

June 29, 2023

Supreme Court rules race-based affirmative action unconstitutional

Race-infused affirmative action programs violate the Constitution's guarantees of equal treatment, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a pair of monumental decisions striking down the policies used by major colleges and universities to try to add more Black and Hispanic students to their ranks.

June 29, 2023

Pork product: Congress bellies up to the trough with earmark spending

Roy Blunt departed the Senate in style last year, helping direct $61 million in taxpayers' money to a University of Missouri building that the school had named for him. For good measure, he earmarked another $30 million for a Missouri State University building that also bore the Republican lawmaker's name.

June 29, 2023

Three House committees to investigate DOJ’s handling of Hunter Biden investigation

The chairs of three House committees said Wednesday they are now investigating the government's handling of its investigation into Hunter Biden, saying the president's son was given kid-glove treatment.

June 28, 2023

Debt squeeze: Interest payments will swamp the federal budget

Uncle Sam's massive pile of debt is really starting to bite, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis Wednesday that shows rising interest costs are starting to eat up more of the government's spending money.

June 28, 2023

U.S. charges four Mexicans in death of 53 migrants trapped in sweltering truck

Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against four Mexicans they say helped orchestrate last year's smuggling tragedy that saw 53 illegal immigrants die after being trapped in a tractor-trailer on a 100-degree Texas afternoon.

June 27, 2023

The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says

The Small Business Administration paid out $1.2 trillion in pandemic loans and more than $200 billion of that may have gone to fraudsters, according to a new estimate Tuesday by the agency's inspector general.

June 27, 2023

Justices limit reach of threat-speech laws, rule prosecutors must show intent to harm

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reaffirmed that truly threatening speech is not protected by the First Amendment, but said states have to prove that the person who said it had at least some understanding that the words crossed a line.

June 27, 2023

Courts hold power over legislatures in election decisions; SCOTUS tames pandemic chaos

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state legislators are not the ultimate authority on how elections are conducted, reasoning that state courts can review election rules enacted by lawmakers.

June 27, 2023