Stephen Dinan

Feds charge four men with attack on Andrew Jackson statue

Four men have been charged with damaging and trying to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue near the White House, federal prosecutors announced Saturday night.

June 27, 2020

Andrew Cuomo’s praise for BLM protests sinks his coronavirus church shutdown

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo can't on the one hand praised Black Lives Matter protesters for defying his coronavirus orders, and at the same time get angry at churches that want to open, a federal judge ruled Friday.

June 26, 2020

Supreme Court rejects attempt to expand mail-in voting in Texas

The Supreme Court refused Friday to take a case attempting to force Texas to allow mail-in voting for anyone who fears contracting COVID-19.

June 26, 2020

Appeals court rejects Trump’s border wall funding

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Trump did not have the legal power to siphon money from the Pentagon to build his border wall, erecting another legal hurdle in the path of his most flamboyant campaign promise.

June 26, 2020

U.S. to block visas for Chinese officials over treatment of Hong Kong

The Trump administration slapped sanctions on top Chinese Communist Party officials Friday, barring them and possibly some family members from entering the U.S. as punishment for curtailing Hong Kong's autonomy.

June 26, 2020

New coronavirus scam: Cards claim to exempt people from mask mandates

Sorry folks, the Justice Department is not in the business of issuing coronavirus mask exemption cards.

June 26, 2020

William Barr: Justice Department will charge those who attempted to pull down Andrew Jackson statue

The Justice Department will be bringing federal charges against those it's able to identify as taking part in an attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson on federal property near the White House, Attorney General William P. Barr said in an interview posted Thursday.

June 25, 2020

Border agents rescue migrants caught in snowstorm

The call came in to San Diego's 911 center just before 2 p.m. on a Monday in February. It was sunny and nearly 70 degrees in the city — but off to the east, in the Laguna Mountains, there was snow on the ground, sleet was falling and the windchill was in the teens.

June 25, 2020

Border rescues ignored by media that hypes ‘haunting’ deaths

Their death pose was captured in a haunting photo: A 2-year-old girl tucked inside her father's arm, both of them washed ashore on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, drowned after a failed attempt to jump the border.

June 25, 2020

Supreme Court OKs speedy deportations for newly arrived illegal immigrants

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the legality of speedy deportations for immigrants who are in the country illegally, ruling that constitutional rights such as access to the court system don't automatically kick in just because someone touches U.S. soil.

June 25, 2020

Feds sent coronavirus stimulus checks to 1.1 million dead people

The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus checks to more than 1 million dead people, totaling $1.4 billion in bogus payments, according to a new audit Thursday.

June 25, 2020

William Barr says antitrust decision on tech giants coming this summer

Attorney General William P. Barr says to expect a decision on pursuing antitrust action against big tech giants this summer -- and he sounds determined to go after the likes of Google for "censoring" Americans' political debate.

June 25, 2020

ICE testing reveals 1% positive coronavirus rate in Colorado detention facility

ICE on Wednesday announced the results of coronavirus testing at a Colorado detention facility, saying 1% of the migrants who submitted to a test came back positive.

June 24, 2020

Donald Trump says border wall ‘has helped’ cut illegal immigration

President Trump said Tuesday morning that the border wall has helped cut the flow of illegal immigration to "just about a record-breaking low," as he prepared to jet off to Yuma, Arizona, to mark more than 200 miles of construction since the start of his administration.

June 23, 2020

Donald Trump to cut 525,000 foreign guest-workers to speed coronavirus jobs recovery

President Trump unleashed American workers to begin the coronavirus recovery Monday, announcing a series of immigration moves that will block hundreds of thousands of new foreign workers the rest of this year and push businesses to offer better pay to those that do come in the future.

June 22, 2020