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Articles by Stephen Dinan

illegal immigrants continue to be the backbone of farm work — essential workers shielded from shelter-in-place orders so they can keep food flowing to grocery stores. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Immigrants in coronavirus pandemic essential to economy

Coronavirus is the ultimate proving ground for illegal immigrants, they believe -- a chance to show they are as American as anyone else, sharing the same experiences and just as, if not more, integral to the economy.

April 8, 2020
In this April 2, 2020, photo a nurse holds a vial and a swab at a drive-up coronavirus testing station at a hospital in Seattle. A federal report due out Monday, April 6, finds that three out of four U.S. hospitals surveyed are already treating patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**

Immigrant health care workers sidelined amid coronavirus: Study

America's strict medical licensing regime has left hundreds of thousands of health workers on the sidelines -- immigrants who earned degrees in the field overseas but have been shut out of the business because they haven't been able to transfer their credentials to the U.S., according to a new study Tuesday.

April 7, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump power limited in coronavirus pandemic by Constitution

Americans have been getting a serious civics lesson over the past month as they turn to Washington for answers to the coronavirus crisis -- only to find out their state governors have far more control over what goes on in their daily lives.

April 5, 2020
Andrea Schry, right, fills out the buyer part of legal forms to buy a handgun as shop worker Missy Morosky fills out the vendors parts after Dukes Sport Shop reopened, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in New Castle, Pa. under the new conditions specified for gun stores. The store had closed last week when Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ordered a shut down of non-essential businesses to slow the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Gun sales up 85% in March amid coronavirus fears

A record 2.5 million guns were sold in March, up 85% compared with the same month last year, according to an analysis released Wednesday by Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting that said all the speculation about pandemic-induced buying was accurate.

April 1, 2020
Service Manager Keith Wilson tests a TV100 ventilator at medical equipment manufacturer Bio-Med Devices in Guilford, Conn. on Sunday, March 29, 2020. The company, working seven days a week, has signed a contract to produce ventilators for the state. (Brian A. Pounds/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP) ** FILE **

Feds have 10,469 total ventilators available

The federal government announced Wednesday it has 10,469 ventilators in reserve, ready to dole out to needy states amid the coronavirus crisis. Now it will make what could be literally life-and-death decisions about where they'll go.

April 1, 2020
Joe Tappe, a distiller for Broad Branch Distillery, displays a bottle of the distillery's hand sanitizer on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 in Winston-Salem, N.C. The distillery is creating hand sanitizer, which is available for free to the public, in reaction to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. (Andrew Dye/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)

How the FDA is thwarting distilleries trying to make hand sanitizer amid coronavirus pandemic

Scott Harris, co-founder of Catoctin Creek distillery in Purcellville, Virginia, has been eager to convert 55 gallons of disposal alcohol he already had into hand sanitizer and ordering another 1,000 gallons from his supplier. As one of those with easy access to alcohol, the key ingredient in sanitizer, he says he felt a "moral responsibility" to step up.

March 31, 2020
Carter Page, an adviser to U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks at the graduation ceremony for the New Economic School in Moscow on July 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) **FILE**

FBI’s FISA problems run deeper than Carter Page, Trump probe: Inspector general

The FBI's bungling of FISA applications runs far deeper than the already well-known problems with the bureau's snooping on the Trump campaign, according to a new inspector general's audit Tuesday that found agents either lost or never compiled backup information for some applications, and made errors in others.

March 31, 2020