Stephen Dinan

Potty politics: Federal wildlife refuges ordered to build ‘all-gender’ bathrooms

The nation's wildlife refuges, already straining under a billion-dollar maintenance backlog, have just been ordered to build "all-gender" bathrooms for employees at every facility that doesn't already have single stalls.

May 29, 2023

IRS worked overtime to probe Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi

The IRS really must have wanted to investigate Matt Taibbi, the Twitter Files journalist.

May 24, 2023

Appeals court upholds school’s diversity policy that curtailed Asian American student admissions

A federal appeals court upheld the diversity policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, ruling Tuesday that the plan survives constitutional scrutiny despite cutting Asian American admissions by 26%.

May 23, 2023

DHS missed MS-13 warnings to admit man accused of murdering Kayla Hamilton

The Department of Homeland Security missed signs that an illegal immigrant juvenile had ties to MS-13 when admitting him to the U.S., where he now stands accused of murdering a 20-year-old woman in Maryland.

May 23, 2023

9th Circuit Court shoots down ‘anti-racist’ push to nix immigration law

A federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling that had found a key section of immigration law to be tainted by racism, dealing a blow to "anti-racist" activists who see the case as a major test for cleansing the federal code of bigoted statutes.

May 22, 2023

Border arrests drop below 3,000 a day; rate rises for migrants evading capture

The Border Patrol apprehended fewer than 3,000 migrants a day from Friday through Sunday, marking a dramatic lessening of chaos at the southwestern border.

May 22, 2023

Migrant deaths spur soul-searching at DHS

Homeland Security rushed to beef up its medical screening of illegal immigrants at the border after the death last week of an 8-year-old girl who'd repeatedly complained about health issues while in Border Patrol custody, then succumbed after suffering a seizure.

May 22, 2023

DHS says it complied with judge’s ‘parole’ order but discovered several thousand new cases

Homeland Security officials say they have identified several thousand more migrants they paroled into the country last week ahead of a judge's restraining order, but said all of the releases complied with their understanding of the terms of the order.

May 20, 2023

House probes Wildlife Service’s social justice agenda; Nature put downriver of agency’s priorities

The House Natural Resources Committee, which has launched an investigation into the Fish and Wildlife Service's spending on its social justice agenda, said the agency charged with rescuing endangered species is focusing much of its time and money working instead on "social change."

May 19, 2023

Border Patrol agents shot at from Mexico while rescuing 4-year-old migrant

Border Patrol agents say they came under gunfire from Mexico on Monday while they were working to rescue a 4-year-old boy whom smugglers had dropped into the U.S. from the border wall.

May 19, 2023

Comer says the rising number of terrorism suspects at the border is a ‘clear national security risk’

House Republicans have launched a probe into the soaring number of terrorism suspects who've been detected trying to sneak into the U.S. under President Biden, calling it a "clear national security risk" and demanding Homeland Security cough up its plan for stopping the surge.

May 19, 2023

Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch scolds Americans over handling of pandemic emergencies

Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch issued a searing denunciation of the way the country handled the coronavirus pandemic in a statement Thursday warning that Americans were all too eager to give up their freedoms on the say-so of a few chief executives.

May 18, 2023

Most migrants still caught and released into U.S. after Title 42

Most illegal immigrants at the border are still being caught and released after the end of Title 42, according to new numbers obtained by The Washington Times that challenge Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' promises of "consequences."

May 18, 2023

Supreme Court sides with Big Tech in families’ lawsuits over promotion of terrorist videos, content

The Supreme Court gave some breathing room to tech companies in a ruling Thursday, shooting down two lawsuits by relatives of victims of terrorism who wanted to hold social media platforms liable for hosting terrorist content.

May 18, 2023

8-year-old migrant dies in Border Patrol custody

An 8-year-old illegal immigrant girl died Wednesday while in Border Patrol custody, the agency announced, saying she suffered a "medical emergency" that cost her life.

May 17, 2023

Senate votes to block Biden’s leniency on immigrants using welfare

The Senate voted Wednesday to overturn a Biden administration rule that allows legal immigrants to use welfare without having to worry about facing consequences in their future status.

May 17, 2023

16 more terrorist suspects detected at border in April

Border Patrol agents detected 16 more terrorist suspects sneaking into the U.S. last month, bringing the total to 96 this fiscal year.

May 17, 2023

House spending bill calls for $2 billion for border wall, thousands more Border Patrol agents

House Republicans' new homeland security spending bill would pump billions of dollars into border security by restarting construction of former President Donald Trump's wall, adding thousands of Border Patrol agents and boosting the number of beds for migrants awaiting deportation.

May 17, 2023

Judge scolds Biden administration over post-Title 42 releases of illegal immigrants

A federal judge rebuked the Department of Homeland Security for releasing 2,567 migrants on "parole" even after he had issued a temporary restraining order, and demanded that the department track what happens to those migrants as they disperse throughout the country.

May 17, 2023

National Institutes of Health cuts off Wuhan Institute of Virology from taxpayer funding

The National Institutes of Health has quietly erased the Wuhan Institute of Virology -- the facility at the center of speculation about the origin of COVID-19 -- from its list of labs that can conduct animal testing with U.S. money.

May 17, 2023