Stephen Dinan

U.S. Marshals told not to arrest protesters outside justices’ homes, documents reveal

Deputy U.S. marshals assigned to guard Supreme Court justices last year were directed to try not to make arrests, according to documents a U.S. senator revealed Tuesday, contradicting Attorney General Merrick Garland's assurances to Congress.

March 28, 2023

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans urge DHS Chief Mayorkas to resign in acrimonious hearing

Calls to resign rained down on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday as he insisted the border was secure, while struggling to answer questions about illegal immigration and the flow of deadly fentanyl.

March 28, 2023

Attorney General Garland: Too early to call Nashville shooting a hate crime

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday that it's too early for the Justice Department to say whether the horrific shooting at a Christian school in Nashville should be considered a hate crime.

March 28, 2023

Mayorkas ‘not aware’ cartels use illegal immigrants to distract border agents

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday told Congress he's unaware that cartels use illegal immigrants to flood the border and sneak over dangerous contraband.

March 28, 2023

House GOP to subpoena State Department for secret Afghanistan documents

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul said Monday that he has signed a subpoena to force the State Department to turn over a secret cable revealing diplomats' urgent plea to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in 2021 not to follow through on President Biden's troop-withdrawal plans.

March 27, 2023

Biden administration urges Supreme Court to uphold law against enticing illegal immigration

The Biden administration pleaded with the Supreme Court on Monday to preserve a section of the law that punishes people who entice illegal immigrants to remain in the U.S., brushing aside First Amendment worries.

March 27, 2023

Bernie Sanders, other ideological warriors stumble in ratings of lawmakers’ effectiveness

They may win the most headlines, but Congress' ideological warriors fared particularly badly in a study of lawmakers' effectiveness as they struggled to get their ideas passed into law.

March 27, 2023

Feds say immigrant led reign of terror as mayor of Haitian village

Federal prosecutors charged a Haitian politician with visa fraud this week after a jury in a civil trial found that Jean Morose Viliena oversaw a campaign of terror against his opponents while he was mayor of a Haitian village.

March 24, 2023

Reports: U.S., Canada strike new migration deal to calm the border

The U.S. and Canada have reached a deal to try to stop what's become an increasingly chaotic border between the two nations, according to news reports from both countries.

March 23, 2023

175 Americans are still in Afghanistan, some held by the Taliban

There are about 175 Americans still in Afghanistan, and some of them are being held captive by the Taliban, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress on Thursday.

March 23, 2023

Federal agency tries to downplay its ‘ecogrief’ training; skeptics question employee triggers

The Fish and Wildlife Service downplayed the scope of its training for employees to handle "ecogrief," telling Congress on Thursday that no more than 150 employees took the classes and calling the sessions "small bore."

March 23, 2023

Bitcoin ATMs were used to launder COVID fraud money, feds charge

Federal authorities arrested the founder of Coindawg, a bitcoin ATM operation, and charged him with money laundering, saying he helped steal pandemic loans and used the ATMs to launder the proceeds.

March 23, 2023

DHS nabs migrant smuggler using tow truck to hide people

Prosecutors have brought charges against a man they say tried to sneak illegal immigrants through a Border Patrol checkpoint by packing them in the rear of an SUV, then calling to have it towed through the checkpoint.

March 23, 2023

Biden endorsement comes at expense of Nature’s credibility; Republican readers lose interest

Nature magazine is finding out that Republicans also consume scientific literature -- but they're less likely to do so when they perceive the publication has gone woke.

March 22, 2023

Red states flee bipartisan voter roll cleanup group, blame its left-wing election agenda

A seemingly inoffensive bipartisan outfit created to help states sort out their voter rolls has emerged as the latest partisan battlefield, with a half-dozen GOP-led states canceling their involvement with the organization this year, saying it's turned into a proving ground for left-wing ideas.

March 22, 2023

Florida lawmaker who sponsored ‘don’t say gay’ legislation pleads guilty to pandemic fraud

Joseph Harding, a former state representative in Florida, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from his attempt to collect pandemic loans to which he wasn't entitled.

March 21, 2023

D.C. man rebukes Fauci’s COVID-19 vaccine pitch on video: ‘You all attack people with fear’

A D.C. man delivered a verbal scolding to Dr. Anthony Fauci in a newly revealed video showing the world-famous doctor's struggles to convince Black residents in the city's poorest area to get the coronavirus vaccine back in 2021.

March 20, 2023

Good guys’ guns save lives more often than reported

The founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center says many instances of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun have been left out of the FBI's database of active shooting incidents, fueling a false narrative that rarely do good guys with guns stop shootings.

March 20, 2023

Supreme Court vacates ruling on parental notice for Missouri teen who sought an abortion

The Supreme Court on Monday erased a lower-court ruling that had held a county court clerk was liable for telling a teen seeking a judge's permission to bypass a parental consent law before obtaining an abortion that her parent would be notified anyway.

March 20, 2023

Democrats’ investigation says Trump failed to report foreign gifts while in White House

President Trump and his family failed to report nearly $300,000 worth of gifts from foreign nations during his time in office, according to a new report by Democrats on the House oversight committee which said the unreported gifts could create constitutional problems.

March 17, 2023