Stephen Dinan

Illegal immigrants smuggled inside portable toilets

Border Patrol agents found 14 illegal immigrants stuffed inside two portable toilets last week and arrested an American man who said he was being paid to smuggle them deeper into the U.S.

February 2, 2022

Federal debt tops $30 trillion, added $1 trillion in less than two months

Uncle Sam's total debt now tops $30 trillion, the Treasury Department said Tuesday.

February 1, 2022

Trump fundraising juggernaut has more money to dole out than DNC, RNC combined

Former President Donald Trump is sitting on an absurd amount of campaign cash -- more than the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee combined.

February 1, 2022

Trump’s political operations have $122 million cash

Former President Donald Trump's political committees will report raising more than $51 million over the last six months, and said they had more than $122 million in cash on hand as of Dec. 31.

January 31, 2022

DHS cancels deportation request for hit-and-run killer

Heriberto Fuerte-Padilla, an illegal immigrant, was driving drunk in 2020 when he smashed into the car driven by a Texas teenager, killing her. He tried to flee the scene, but police caught up with him. The Homeland Security Department initially said it wanted authorities to pick him up and deport him once Texas punished him, but then it changed its mind.

January 30, 2022

Endangered wolf blocked by Trump’s border wall found shot in New Mexico

Environmentalists are blaming President Trump's border wall after a Mexican gray wolf who was trapped in the U.S. by the barrier was found shot in the leg in New Mexico this week.

January 29, 2022

GOP states sue to stop Biden’s special program for Central American kids

Republican attorneys general broadened their legal battle against President Biden's immigration policies in a new lawsuit announced Friday that challenges a federal program to shortcut the smuggling journey and bring children directly from Central America.

January 28, 2022

Wisconsin community hosting Afghan evacuee camp gets a mountain of trash, stuck with the bill

It turns out that adding 13,000 Afghan evacuees -- a small city's worth of people -- to a local community can stress things out a bit. For one thing, there's the trash. A lot more of it.

January 27, 2022

McConnell urges Biden to ignore radical left in picking new justice

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that the Supreme Court vacancy gives President Biden a new chance to make good on his promise to be an uniter for the country.

January 27, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer set to retire

Justice Stephen G. Breyer will retire from the Supreme Court, closing out a decades-long tenure for the liberal-leaning justice and giving President Biden his first chance to shape the court.

January 26, 2022

Viral video shows illegal immigrants released at the border

A new viral video shows illegal immigrants nabbed at the border in Texas being released, ferried to airports and dropped off to catch flights taking them deeper into the U.S.

January 26, 2022

OSHA cancels business vaccine mandate after Supreme Court loss

OSHA announced Tuesday that it was canceling its emergency policy mandating large businesses require employees to be vaccinated or face masking and testing, after the Supreme Court put the policy on ice earlier this month.

January 25, 2022

Smuggler who used coffin to move illegal immigrants pleads guilty

A man who used a coffin to try to smuggle illegal immigrants through a border checkpoint in Texas pleaded guilty Tuesday.

January 25, 2022

DHS encountered a record 2 million illegal immigrants on southern border in 2021

Homeland Security recorded more than 2 million encounters with illegal immigrants at the southern border last year, shattering previous records, as the Biden administration relaxed the country's immigration policies.

January 24, 2022

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Pelosi’s proxy-voting scheme

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's coronavirus pandemic rule allowing lawmakers to vote without being on the House floor by giving the power to cast their vote to another member.

January 24, 2022

Supreme Court to hear challenge to race in college admissions

The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will hear a discrimination case involving Asian students who say Harvard University's affirmative action system discriminates against them.

January 24, 2022

Noncitizens skip the vote despite efforts to entice participation in local elections

Montpelier City Clerk John Odum chuckled when he was asked how many noncitizens had registered to vote ahead of the Vermont city's municipal elections in March -- the first time they will have the chance to cast ballots.

January 24, 2022

Judges say Biden vaccine mandates lack congressionally approved authority

President Biden is now batting 25% in his push for vaccine mandates on American workers, after a federal judge in Texas last week shut down the White House's order requiring the federal workforce to get the shots.

January 23, 2022

Court rules California county’s gun store shutdown order for COVID-19 was unconstitutional

The coronavirus pandemic cannot be an excuse to shut down gun stores, a federal appeals court ruled this week, delivering a belated spanking to a California county that shuttered stores and firing ranges in the early days of the virus.

January 21, 2022

Judge halts Biden COVID vaccine mandate for federal employees

A federal judge issued an order Friday halting President Biden's order that all federal employees get the coronavirus vaccine or risk losing their jobs, saying the president overstepped the bounds of his powers.

January 21, 2022