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Investigation finds hundreds of voters double-registered in Minnesota

Given his criminal history, it's not clear that Damian Allen Kingbird should have been allowed to vote in 2020.

October 5, 2022

Migrants become targets for robbery, sexual assault on U.S. side of border

Migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally now have a new worry: they're being mugged or sexually assaulted as soon as they cross the Rio Grande.

October 5, 2022

Feds accuse five IRS employees of scamming COVID relief loans

The Justice Department announced fraud charges Tuesday against five current or former IRS employees in Tennessee whom prosecutors say stole money from the government's pandemic relief programs.

October 4, 2022

DHS released unvaccinated Afghans while threatening to fire unvaccinated Border Patrol agents

The Biden administration allowed hundreds of Afghans from last year's airlift to disappear into American communities without getting COVID-19 or other vaccinations, an inspector general has revealed.

October 4, 2022

GOP bill would bolster ICE partnerships with local cops

Rep. Michael Cloud is announcing new legislation Tuesday that would require ICE to improve cooperation with state and local police departments, pushing back on the Biden administration's embrace of immigration sanctuaries.

October 4, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Jordan ready for Mayorkas impeachment in GOP-run House: ‘Failure to enforce the law’

Rep. Jim Jordan laid out the case for impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, telling The Washington Times he "deserves it" after overseeing an unprecedented surge of illegal activity at the southern border.

October 3, 2022

New Hampshire to send National Guard to patrol the southern border

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Monday that he is sending two Army National Guard units to the southern border for a one-year deployment to help handle the chaos of the current migrant surge.

October 3, 2022

Courts mostly siding with red states on election law changes post-2020

When Georgia lawmakers announced legislation to prevent voters waiting in line from being provided food or drinks, the outrage was swift and severe.

October 3, 2022

Hidden inflation on Biden’s watch: Prices in migrant smuggling economy soar to $2.6 billion

The migrant smuggling economy at the U.S.-Mexico border now tops $20 billion and the cartels have made at least $2.6 billion in profit over the past 12 months just from controlling the routes illegal immigrants use, according to a Washington Times analysis.

October 2, 2022

Clarence Thomas takes the wheel as Supreme Court settles in for post-Roe term

Justice Clarence Thomas has been on the Supreme Court for more than three decades, and his judicial philosophy rooted in adhering to the original meaning of the Constitution is finally controlling big rulings.

October 2, 2022

Brothers charged with manslaughter after migrant killed in western Texas

Two brothers have been charged with manslaughter in western Texas after authorities say they were involved in shooting at a group of illegal immigrants, killing one man and wounding a woman.

September 30, 2022

Hundreds of DHS employees took pandemic unemployment aid even though they were working: Audit

Hundreds of Homeland Security employees were paid unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic despite staying on the job, the department's inspector general revealed Thursday.

September 29, 2022

Equal Rights Amendment faces tough questions from appeals court

The Equal Rights Amendment ran into a skeptical federal appeals court Wednesday, with judges signaling they are wary of ordering the National Archives to certify the amendment as a valid part of the Constitution.

September 28, 2022

China used ‘double-crossing companies’ to steal U.S. national security research

Although the federal government invests heavily in research, it's China that gets more out of it, according to a Defense Department study of its spending that is getting attention on Capitol Hill.

September 28, 2022

Blackburn’s bill would cut IRS user fees for small businesses

If the IRS is getting tens of billions of dollars in additional funding, one senator wants to make sure it finds a way to ease life for taxpayers -- and particularly small businesses -- by cutting the agency's user fees.

September 27, 2022

FBI money request signals ongoing problems in vetting Afghan evacuees

Tucked inside Democrats' new spending bill is $15.3 million in emergency money for the FBI to investigate Afghan evacuees brought to the U.S. during last year's chaotic airlift.

September 27, 2022

Feds ignored sex-offender checks in placing illegal immigrant children, inspector general says

The Biden administration was so unprepared for the surge of migrant children last year that it was unable to deliver adequate care, leading some children to experience panic attacks and sending others to potentially unsafe homes, an inspector general revealed Tuesday.

September 27, 2022

$20 billion payday: Biden’s border surge sends smuggling prices soaring

The migrant smuggling economy at the U.S.-Mexico border now tops $20 billion and the cartels have made at least $2.6 billion in profit over the past 12 months just from controlling the routes illegal immigrants use, according to a Washington Times analysis.

September 27, 2022

California suffers defeat in bid to stop ICE detention centers

A federal appeals court blasted California's law that tried to shut down immigration detention centers paid for by the federal government but run by private contractors, ruling Monday that the state was illegally attempting to override the national government's policies.

September 26, 2022

Planned Parenthood was entitled to pandemic loans: inspector general

Planned Parenthood organizations were rightly able to collect pandemic business loans, an inspector general concluded in a new report Monday that rebuts the claims of congressional Republicans.

September 26, 2022